Title: Composition in the university : historical and polemical essays /
Authors: Crowley, Sharon, 1943-
Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press,
Year: 1998
Subjects: English language Rhetoric Study and teaching United States History.; English philology Study and teaching (Higher) United States History.; Education, Higher United States History; English language Rhetoric Study and teaching United States; English philology Study and teaching (Higher) United States.; Report writing Study and teaching (Higher) United States; Education, Higher United States
Contents: 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 the 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.