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OverviewIn the Archives of Composition offers new and revisionary narratives of composition and rhetoric's history. It examines composition instruction and practice at secondary schools and normal colleges, the two institutions that trained the majority of U.S. composition teachers and students during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Drawing from a broad array of archival and documentary sources, the contributors provide accounts of writing instruction within contexts often overlooked by current historical scholarship. Topics range from the efforts of young women to attain rhetorical skills in an antebellum academy, to the self-reflections of Harvard University students on their writing skills in the 1890s, to a close reading of a high school girl's diary in the 1960s that offers a new perspective on curriculum debates of this period. Taken together, the chapters begin to recover how high school students, composition teachers, and English education programs responded to institutional and local influences, political movements, and pedagogical innovations over a one-hundred-and-thirty-year span. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Lori Ostergaard , Henrietta Rix WoodPublisher: University of Pittsburgh Press Imprint: University of Pittsburgh Press Dimensions: Width: 15.00cm , Height: 2.00cm , Length: 23.00cm Weight: 0.525kg ISBN: 9780822963776ISBN 10: 0822963779 Pages: 264 Publication Date: 12 October 2015 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In stock We have confirmation that this item is in stock with the supplier. It will be ordered in for you and dispatched immediately. Table of ContentsReviewsAn important collection for scholars in the field of composition and rhetoric. It explores an area of history in our field that is rarely covered and contributes greatly to an unknown area. Thorough, engaging, and very readable. Lisa Mastrangelo, Centenary College of New Jersey An important collection for scholars in the field of composition and rhetoric. It explores an area of history in our field that is rarely covered and contributes greatly to an unknown area. Thorough, engaging, and very readable. --Lisa Mastrangelo, Centenary College of New Jersey This volume deepens our understanding of writing education by moving beyond the university setting to examine the high school and normal school context. In so doing the book engages narratives familiar to the field and introduces stories that have been overlooked or ignored, complicating our histories while broadening our methodological horizons. It should be required reading for all writing teachers and historians. --Suzanne Bordelon, San Diego State University This volume deepens our understanding of writing education by moving beyond the university setting to examine the high school and normal school context.In so doing the book engages narratives familiar to the field and introduces stories that have been overlooked or ignored, complicating our histories while broadening our methodological horizons.It should be required reading for all writing teachers and historians. Suzanne Bordelon, San Diego State University Author InformationLori Ostergaard is associate professor and chair of the department of writing and rhetoric at Oakland University in Rochester, Michigan. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |