The Young Composers [electronic resource] : Composition's Beginnings in Nineteenth-Century Schools / Lucille M. Schultz.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Schultz, Lucille M., 1943-

Series:

Studies in writing & rhetoric.

Studies in writing & rhetoric

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Report writing--Study and teaching--United States--History--19th century.

Report writing.

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

English language.

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

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

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (235 p.)

Place of Publication:

Carbondale : Southern Illinois University Press, [1999]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Lucille M. Schultz's The Young Composers: Composition's Beginnings in Nineteenth-Century Schools is the first full-length history of school-based writing instruction. Schultz demonstrates that writing instruction in nineteenth-century American schools is much more important in the overall history of writing instruction than we have previously assumed. Drawing on primary materials that have not been considered in previous histories of writing instruction-little-known textbooks and student writing that includes prize-winning essays, journal entries, letters, and articles written for school new

Contents:

Cover; Studies in Writing and Rhetoric; Title Page; Copyright; Contents; List of Figures; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Telling Our Stories; 1. The Beginnings of Composition in Early Nineteenth-Century Schools; The Early National Period and Learning by Rote; The Antebellum Period and the Great Educational Awakening; Post-Civil War Industrialization and the Turn to the Practical; 2. First Books of Composition; Walker's Pedagogy and the Reform Pedagogies of First Books; The Beginnings of the Democratization of Writing; 3. "No Ideas but in Things"; Pestalozzi in the American Classroom

The Pestalozzi-Mayo-Frost ConnectionOther Pestalozzian "Showings"; Pestalozzi's Significance; 4. The Agency of Textbook Iconography; The History and Technology of Illustrations in Children's Books; Illustrations in Composition Texts; Framing Text and Cultural Codes; 5. Textual Practices of the Young Composers; Textbook Instruction and Classroom-Based Writing; Extracurricular Writing at Home: Letters and Memoirs; Extracurricular Writing at School: School Newspapers; Conclusion: "We Say to Him, Write!"; Appendixes

1. Tables of Contents from John Frost's Easy Exercises (1839) and George Quackenbos's First Lessons (1851) 2. Three Student Readings of an Illustration, 1886; 3. Student Essay: June 20, 1846; 4. Excerpt from Elizabeth Cady Stanton's Autobiography, Eighty Years and More; Notes; Bibliography; Index; Author Biography; Back Cover

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 193-210) and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-8093-9092-2

OCLC:

607199914