Before Shaughnessy : basic writing at Yale and Harvard, 1920-1960 / Kelly Ritter.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ritter, Kelly, author.

Series:

Studies in writing & rhetoric.

CCCC studies in writing and rhetoric series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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

English language.

Report writing--Study and teaching (Higher)--Case studies.

Report writing.

Academic writing--Study and teaching (Higher)--Case studies.

Academic writing.

Writing centers--Case studies.

Writing centers.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (191 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Carbondale : Southern Illinois University Press, [2009]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In Before Shaughnessy: Basic Writing at Yale and Harvard, 1920-1960, Kelly Ritter uses materials from the archives at Harvard and Yale and contemporary theories of writing instruction to reconsider the definition of basic writing and basic writers within a socio-historical context. Ritter challenges the association of basic writing with only poorly funded institutions and poorly prepared students. Using Yale and Harvard as two sample case studies, Ritter shows that basic writing courses were alive and well, even in the Ivy League, in the early twentieth century. She argues not only that bas

Contents:

"Dust in the balance" : an introduction

River and opportunity

Man of property

Release

Beginning

A rough land of great promise

Contest and convention

A prairie firestorm

The chasm

The complaint

The emancipator

The devastating truth of Madison's will

The aging historian

The preacher

Prodigal Virginian

The woodlands.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-336-15363-6

1-280-69748-2

9786613674449

0-8093-8944-4

9780809389945

OCLC:

742517215