The origins of composition studies in the American college, 1875-1925 : a documentary history / John C. Brereton, editor.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Brereton, John C., 1943-2023, editor.

Series:

Pittsburgh series in composition, literacy, and culture.

Pittsburgh series in composition, literacy, and culture

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English language--Rhetoric--Study and teaching--United States--History--19th century.

English language.

English language--Rhetoric--Study and teaching--United States--History--20th century.

English language--Rhetoric--Study and teaching--History--19th century.

English language--Rhetoric--Study and teaching--History--20th century.

Report writing--Study and teaching (Higher)--United States--History.

Report writing.

Education, Higher--United States--History.

Education, Higher.

United States.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (609 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Pittsburgh : University of Pittsburgh Press, [1995]

Summary:

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.

Contents:

The first composition program: Harvard, 1870-1900

The new writing curriculum, 1895-1915

The attack on the Harvard program, 1890-1917

Textbooks for a new discipline

Writing the essay.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780822990567

0822990563

OCLC:

878135430