Composition in the university : historical and polemical essays

Author(s)

• Crowley, Sharon

Bibliographic Information

Composition in the university : historical and polemical essays

Sharon Crowley

（Pittsburgh series in composition, literacy, and culture）

University of Pittsburgh Press, c1998

• pbk.

Note

Includes bibliographical references (p. 279-300) and index

Contents of Works

• Composition in the university
• The toad in the garden
• The bourgeois subject and the demise of rhetorical education
• The invention of Freshman English
• Literature and composition : not separate but certainly unequal
• Terms of employment : rhetoric slaves and lesser men
• You can't write writing : Norman Foerster and the battle over basic skills at Iowa
• Freshman English and war
• Around 1971 : the emergence of process pedagogy
• The politics of composition
• A personal essay on Freshman English
• Composition's ethic of service, the universal requirement, and the discourse of student need

Details

• NCID: BA41984425
• ISBN:
  • 0822940566
  • 0822956608
• LCCN: 97045367
• Country Code: us
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: Pittsburgh
• Pages/Volumes: xi, 306 p.
• Size: 25 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : PE1405.U6
  • DC21 : 808/.042/071173
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : English language -- Rhetoric -- Study and teaching -- United States -- History
  • LCSH : English philology -- Study and teaching (Higher) -- United States -- History
  • LCSH : Education, Higher -- United States -- History
• Parent Bibliography ID:
  • BA19464270