| Description |
1 online resource (385 pages) : illustrations |
| Series |
Pittsburgh series in composition, literacy, and culture |
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Pittsburgh series in composition, literacy, and culture.
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| Contents |
Gender influences : composition-rhetoric as an irenic rhetoric -- Shaping tools : textbooks and the development of composition-rhetoric -- Composition-rhetoric, grammar, and mechanical correctness -- Licensure, disciplinary identity, and workload in composition-rhetoric -- Discourse taxonomies in composition-rhetoric -- Style theory and static abstractions -- Invention and assignments in composition-rhetoric |
| Summary |
Connors provides a history of composition and its pedagogical approaches to form, genre, and correctness. He shows where many of the today's practices and assumptions about writing come from, and he translates what our techniques and theories of teaching have said over time about our attitudes toward students, language and life. Connors locates the beginning of a new rhetorical tradition in the mid-nineteenth century, and from there, he discusses the theoretical and pedagogical innovations of the last two centuries as the result of historical forces, social needs, and cultural shifts. This |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
English language -- Rhetoric -- Study and teaching -- United States -- History
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Academic writing -- Study and teaching -- United States -- History
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Language and culture -- United States -- History
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Education, Higher -- United States -- History
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LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Composition & Creative Writing.
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LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Rhetoric.
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REFERENCE -- Writing Skills.
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Academic writing -- Study and teaching
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Education, Higher
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English language -- Rhetoric -- Study and teaching
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Language and culture
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United States
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780822971825 |
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0822971828 |
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9780822939795 |
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0822939797 |
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