From form to meaning : freshman composition and the long sixties, 1957-1974 / David Fleming.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Fleming, David, 1961-

Series:

Pittsburgh series in composition, literacy, and culture

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English language--Rhetoric--Study and teaching (Higher)--United States.

English language.

Education--Political aspects.

Education.

Report writing--Study and teaching (Higher).

Report writing.

English language--Rhetoric--Study and teaching (Higher).

United States.

Physical Description:

x, 273 pages ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Pittsburgh, Pa. : University of Pittsburgh Press, [2011]

Summary:

In the spring of 1968, the English faculty at the University of Wisconsin-Madison (UW) voted to remedialize the first semester of its required freshman composition course, English 101. The following year, it eliminated outright the second-semester course, English 102, For the next quarter-century, UW had no real campus wide writing requirement, putting it out of step with its peer institutions and preventing it from fully joining the "composition revolution" of the 1970s. In From Form to Meaning, David Fleming chronicles these events, situating them against the backdrop of late 1960s student radicalism and within the wider changes taking place in U.S. higher education at the time. He connects the upheavals of this period to the long, embattled history of freshman composition at UW and nationally, and reflects on the qualities of the course that have allowed it to survive and regenerate for over 125 years. Book jacket.

Contents:

1 Introduction: Freshman Composition in the United States, 1885-Present 1

2 A Prehistory, 1848-1948 28

3 The Postwar Regime, 1948-1968 46

4 Faculty Withdrawal, 1966-1969 74

5 TA Experimentation, 1966-1969 with Rasha Diab and Mira Shimabukuro 93

6 1969 Breakdown 133

7 Aftermath, 1970-1996 173

8 Conclusion: Freshman Composition at the Turn of the New Century 195.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780822961536

0822961539

OCLC:

682895109