The Origins Of Composition Studies In The American College 1875 1925
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The Origins Of Composition Studies In The American College 1875 1925
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Author : John Brereton
language : en
Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
Release Date : 1996-01-15
The Origins Of Composition Studies In The American College 1875 1925 written by John Brereton and has been published by University of Pittsburgh Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1996-01-15 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
This volume describes the formative years of English composition courses in college through a study of the most prominent documents of the time: magazine articles, scholarly reports, early textbooks, teachers' testimonies-and some of the actual student papers that provoked discussion. Includes writings by leading scholars of the era such as Adams Sherman Hill, Gertrude Buck, William Edward Mead, Lane Cooper, William Lyon Phelps, and Fred Newton Scott.
On The Blunt Edge
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Author : Shane Borrowman
language : en
Publisher: Parlor Press LLC
Release Date : 2011-12-22
On The Blunt Edge written by Shane Borrowman and has been published by Parlor Press LLC this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-12-22 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
On the Blunt Edge: Technology in Composition’s History and Pedagogy tells the stories of composition’s techno-history, from the roads of the ancient world, which allowed students to travel to school, to the audio-visual aids that populate the classrooms of the modern world. Computers are only a small part of this discussion, a technological Johnny-come-lately in a long-running pedagogical palaver.
Historical Studies Of Writing Program Administration
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Author : Barbara L’Eplattenier
language : en
Publisher: Parlor Press LLC
Release Date : 2004-03-14
Historical Studies Of Writing Program Administration written by Barbara L’Eplattenier and has been published by Parlor Press LLC this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004-03-14 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
Historical Studies of Writing Program Administration: Individuals, Communities, and the Formation of a Discipline collects essays that shine new light on the early history of writing program administration. Broad in scope, the book illuminates the development of the profession in the narratives of the individuals who helped form the discipline prior to the emergence of the Council of Writing Program Administrators in 1976, including those narratives of Gertrude Buck and Laura J. Wylie, Edwin Hopkins, Regina Crandall, Rose Colby, George Jardine, Clara Stevens, Stith Thompson, and George Wykoff. Drawing from deep archival work, these narratives offer rare glimpses into writing program administration and the development of composition as a college requirement.
The Managerial Unconscious In The History Of Composition Studies
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Author : Donna Strickland
language : en
Publisher: SIU Press
Release Date : 2011-07-11
The Managerial Unconscious In The History Of Composition Studies written by Donna Strickland and has been published by SIU Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-07-11 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
In this pointed appraisal of composition studies, Donna Strickland contends the rise of writing program administration is crucial to understanding the history of the field. Noting existing histories of composition studies that offer little to no exploration of administration, Strickland argues the field suffers from a “managerial unconscious” that ignores or denies the dependence of the teaching of writing on administrative structures. The Managerial Unconscious in the History of Composition Studies is the first book to address the history of composition studies as a profession rather than focusing on its pedagogical theories and systems. Strickland questions why writing and the teaching of writing have been the major areas of scholarly inquiry in the field when specialists often work primarily as writing program administrators, not teachers. Strickland traces the emergence of writing programs in the early twentieth century, the founding of two professional organizations by and for writing program administrators, and the managerial overtones of the “social turn” of the field during the 1990s. She illustrates how these managerial imperatives not only have provided much of the impetus for the growth of composition studies over the past three decades but also have contributed to the stratified workplaces and managed writing practices the field’s pedagogical research often decries. The Managerial Unconscious in the History of Composition Studies makes the case that administrative work should not be separated from intellectual work, calling attention to the interplay between these two kinds of work in academia at large and to the pronounced hierarchies of contingent faculty and tenure-track administrators endemic to college writing programs. The result is a reasoned plea for an alternative understanding of the very mission of the field itself.
Conceding Composition
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Author : Ryan Skinnell
language : en
Publisher: University Press of Colorado
Release Date : 2016-09-01
Conceding Composition written by Ryan Skinnell and has been published by University Press of Colorado this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-09-01 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
First-year composition became the most common course in American higher education not because it could “fix” underprepared student writers, but because it has historically served significant institutional interests. That is, it can be “conceded” in multiple ways to help institutions solve political, promotional, and financial problems. Conceding Composition is a wide-ranging historical examination of composition’s evolving institutional value in American higher education over the course of nearly a century. Based on extensive archival research conducted at six American universities and using the specific cases of institutional mission, regional accreditation, and federal funding, this study demonstrates that administrators and faculty have introduced, reformed, maintained, threatened, or eliminated composition as part of negotiations related to nondisciplinary institutional exigencies. Viewing composition from this perspective, author Ryan Skinnell raises new questions about why composition exists in the university, how it exists, and how teachers and scholars might productively reconceive first-year composition in light of its institutional functions. The book considers the rhetorical, political, organizational, institutional, and promotional options conceding composition opened up for institutions of higher education and considers what the first-year course and the discipline might look like with composition’s transience reimagined not as a barrier but as a consummate institutional value.
Exploring Composition Studies
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Author : Kelly Ritter
language : en
Publisher: University Press of Colorado
Release Date : 2012-04-30
Exploring Composition Studies written by Kelly Ritter and has been published by University Press of Colorado this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-04-30 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
Kelly Ritter and Paul Kei Matsuda have created an essential introduction to the field of composition studies for graduate students and instructors new to the study of writing. The book offers a careful exploration of this diverse field, focusing specifically on scholarship of writing and composing. Within this territory, the authors draw the boundaries broadly, to include allied sites of research such as professional and technical writing, writing across the curriculum programs, writing centers, and writing program administration. Importantly, they represent composition as a dynamic, eclectic field, influenced by factors both within the academy and without. The editors and their sixteen seasoned contributors have created a comprehensive and thoughtful exploration of composition studies as it stands in the early twenty-first century. Given the rapid growth of this field and the evolution of it research and pedagogical agendas over even the last ten years, this multi-vocal introduction is long overdue.
The Writing Program Administrator S Resource
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Author : Stuart C. Brown
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2005-04-11
The Writing Program Administrator S Resource written by Stuart C. Brown and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005-04-11 with Education categories.
This handbook offers wisdom and guidance from experienced college writing program administrators. It is intended for WPAs at all levels of experience.
The Lure Of Literacy
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Author : Michael Harker
language : en
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Release Date : 2014-12-03
The Lure Of Literacy written by Michael Harker and has been published by State University of New York Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-12-03 with Education categories.
"...readers of LiCS will find a strong argument for how understandings of literacy are fundamental to the work that compositionists do, making this book useful not only to those doing similar work but also to be shared with colleagues who have less familiarity with literacy studies. The Lure of Literacy presents a model of how theories of literacy can be applied to the debates that beset compositionists again and again, offering a way out of their unproductive cycles." — Literacy in Composition The Lure of Literacy promises to transcend the stale and unproductive debate on freshman composition that has gripped English studies for more than a century. It is the first book to chart the origin of the discussion from the early twentieth century to the advent of the New Literacy Studies. Michael Harker recontextualizes proposals to abolish compulsory composition and reimagines pedagogical conditions in English studies in order to present a different model for first-year writing. This new model for compulsory composition programs focuses on students' attitudes about composition and interrogates the very idea of literacy itself.
Mestiz Scripts Digital Migrations And The Territories Of Writing
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Author : D. Baca
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2008-05-26
Mestiz Scripts Digital Migrations And The Territories Of Writing written by D. Baca and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-05-26 with Literary Criticism categories.
Conventional scholarship on written communication positions the Western alphabet as a precondition for literacy. Thus, pictographic, non-verbal writing practices of Mesoamerica remain obscured by representations of lettered speech. This book examines how contemporary Mestiz@ scripts challenge alphabetic dominance, thereby undermining the colonized territories of "writing." Strategic weavings of Aztec and European inscription systems not only promote historically-grounded accounts of how recorded information is expressed across cultures, but also speak to emerging studies on "visual/multimodal" education. Baca-Espinosa argues that Mestiz@ literacies advance "new" ways of reading and writing, applicable to diverse classrooms of the twenty-first century.
Multimodal Literacies And Emerging Genres
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Author : Tracey Bowen
language : en
Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
Release Date : 2013-04-09
Multimodal Literacies And Emerging Genres written by Tracey Bowen and has been published by University of Pittsburgh Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-04-09 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
A student’s avatar navigates a virtual world and communicates the desires, emotions, and fears of its creator. Yet, how can her writing instructor interpret this form of meaningmaking? Today, multiple modes of communication and information technology are challenging pedagogies in composition and across the disciplines. Writing instructors grapple with incorporating new forms into their curriculums and relating them to established literary practices. Administrators confront the application of new technologies to the restructuring of courses and the classroom itself. Multimodal Literacies and Emerging Genres examines the possibilities, challenges, and realities of mutimodal composition as an effective means of communication. The chapters view the ways that writing instructors and their students are exploring the spaces where communication occurs, while also asking “what else is possible.” The genres of film, audio, photography, graphics, speeches, storyboards, PowerPoint presentations, virtual environments, written works, and others are investigated to discern both their capabilities and limitations. The contributors highlight the responsibility of instructors to guide students in the consideration of their audience and ethical responsibility, while also maintaining the ability to “speak well.” Additionally, they focus on the need for programmatic changes and a shift in institutional philosophy to close a possible “digital divide” and remain relevant in digital and global economies. Embracing and advancing multimodal communication is essential to both higher education and students. The contributors therefore call for the examination of how writing programs, faculty, and administrators are responding to change, and how the many purposes writing serves can effectively converge within composition curricula.