Dead letters
Subtitle: error in composition, 1873-2004
By: Tracy Santa
Series: Research and teaching in rhetoric and composition
Publisher: Hampton Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Cresskill, NJ
Language: eng
Number of pages: 151
ISBN-13: 9781572737723; 9781572737730
Subjects: English language -- Rhetoric -- Study and teaching -- United States -- History -- 20th century; English language -- Rhetoric -- Study and teaching -- United States -- History -- 19th century; Report writing -- Study and teaching (Higher) -- United States -- History -- 20th century; Report writing -- Study and teaching (Higher) -- United States -- History -- 19th century
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 133-143) and indexes
Table of contents: title: Revising error; title: Correction of themes : the controlling gaze (1873-1963); title: Open admissions : Mina Shaughnessy, error, and expectations (1963-1978); title: The study of error : mapping the territory (1978-1989); title: Critical pedagogy : de/reconstructing the basic writer (1989-1999); title: A glance and a silent body : historical consciousness/present reflection (2000-2004)