History, Reflection, and Narrative
Subtitle: The Professionalization of Composition 1963-1983 (Perspectives on Writing, V. 3)
Contributors: Mary Rosner (Editor); Beth Boehm (Editor); Debra Journet (Editor)
Publisher: Ablex Publishing
Published: December 21, 1999
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 352
ISBN-13: 9781567503982
Subjects: Rhetoric; United States; c 1960 to c 1970; c 1970 to c 1980; c 1980 to c 1990; History; Communication; Study and teaching; Language Arts & Disciplines; Language Arts / Linguistics / Literacy; History: American; Language; General; Language Arts & Disciplines / Communication; 20th century; Study and teaching (Higher); Training of; English language; English teachers; Report writing
First sentence: Growing older within any intellectual field has both its pleasures and terrors: The excitement and stress of entry into the Burkean parlor, the Whitewater canoe ride of achieving tenure and disciplinary maturity, the (always unexpected) revelation of the extra work that comes with seniority, and, finally, the gradual letting go into younger hands of the work to which one has devoted one's life.