Composition as a Human Science: Contributions to the Self-Understanding of a Discipline

by Louise Wetherbee Phelps (Author)

• New

  Paperback
  1991

  $44.82

  The last twenty years have seen an explosion of writing programmes in American schools and universities. However, while composition has firmly established itself as a subject worthy of study, the major philosophical premises that differentiate a subject from a discipline have yet to be agreed upon. This book goes some way to resolving these problems.