Composition in the university
Subtitle: historical and polemical essays
By: Sharon Crowley.
Series: Pittsburgh series in composition, literacy, and culture
Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
Published: 1998
Place of publication: Pittsburgh
Language: eng
Number of pages: 306
Subjects: 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
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 279-300) and index.
Table of contents: title: Composition in the university; title: The toad in the garden; title: The bourgeois subject and the demise of rhetorical education; title: The invention of Freshman English; title: Literature and composition : not separate but certainly unequal; title: Terms of employment : rhetoric slaves and lesser men; title: You can't write writing : Norman Foerster and the battle over basic skills at Iowa; title: Freshman English and war; title: Around 1971 : the emergence of process pedagogy; title: The politics of composition; title: A personal essay on Freshman English; title: Composition's ethic of service, the universal requirement, and the discourse of student need.