Composition in the University: Historical and Polemical Essays (Pittsburgh Series in Composition, Literacy and Culture)

by SharonCrowley (Author)

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  1998

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  Examines the required introductory course in composition within American colleges and universities. The author argues that the course has historically been inappropriately influenced by humanist pedagogy - an unsatisfactory rationale for the study of writing - and proposes possible alternatives.