Writing in the academic disciplines : a curricular history / David R. Russell ; with a foreword by Elaine P. Maimon.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Russell, David R., 1951-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English language--Rhetoric--Study and teaching--United States--History.

English language.

English language--Study and teaching (Secondary)--United States--History.

Interdisciplinary approach in education--United States--History.

Interdisciplinary approach in education.

Academic writing--Study and teaching--United States--History.

Academic writing.

Academic writing--Study and teaching.

History.

English language--Study and teaching (Secondary).

English language--Rhetoric--Study and teaching.

United States.

Physical Description:

xvi, 410 pages ; 22 cm

Edition:

Second edition.

Place of Publication:

Carbondale : Southern Illinois University Press, 2002.

Summary:

"To understand the ways students learn to write, we must go beyond the small and all too often marginalized component of the curriculum that treats writing explicitly and look at the broader, though largely tacit traditions students encounter in the whole curriculum, " explains David R. Russell, in the introduction to this singular study.& The updated edition provides a comprehensive history of writing instruction outside general composition courses in American secondary and higher education, from the founding public secondary schools and research universities in the 1870s, through the spread of the writing-across-the-curriculum movement in the 1980s, through the WAC efforts in contemporary curriculums.

Contents:

I. The Triumph of Specialization

1. Introduction: The Myth of Transience 3

2. Nineteenth-Century Backgrounds: From the Liberal Curriculum to Mass Education 35

3. Writing and the Ideal of Research: Some Tacit Traditions 70

4. Writing and the Ideal of Utility: Composition for the Culture of Professionalism 101

II. The Search For Community: Writing and General Education

5. Writing and Social Efficiency: The Cooperation Movement 135

6. Writing and the Great Books 166

7. Writing and Progressive Education 199

III. The Postwar Era

8. The Disciplines Enter the Information Age 239

9. The Writing-Across-the-Curriculum Movement: 1970-1990 271

10. The Writing-Across-the-Curriculum Movement: 1990-2000 308.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 375-398) and index.

ISBN:

0809324679

OCLC:

49225985