Teaching Subject Composition since 1966, New Edition

Name: Teaching Subject Composition since 1966, New Edition
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ISBN: 9780874218664

ISBN-10: 0874218667

ISBN-13: 9780874218664

Edition: 2012

Authors: Joseph Harris

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In this classic text, Joseph Harris traces the evolution of college writing instruction since the Dartmouth Seminar of 1966.A Teaching Subjectoffers a brilliant interpretive history of the first decades during which writing studies came to be imagined as a discipline separable from its partners in English studies. Postscripts to each chapter in this new edition bring the history of composition up to the present.Reviewing the development of the field through five key ideas, Harris unfolds a set of issues and tensions that continue to shape the teaching of writing today. Ultimately, he builds a case, now deeply influential in its own right, that composition defines itself through its interest…

Book details

List price: $30.95
Copyright year: 2012
Publisher: University Press of Colorado
Publication date: 1/1/2012
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 208
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.60" tall
Weight: 0.792
Language: English



Acknowledgments


Preface to New Edition


Foreword(s): Research and Teaching



Growth


Postscript, 2012: Students as Writers


Interchapter



Voice


Postscript, 2012: Intensive Academic Writing


Interchapter



Process


Postscript, 2012: Track Changes


Interchapter



Error


Postscript, 2012: Difference as a Resource


Interchapter



Community


Postscript, 2012: From the Social to the Material


Afterword(s): Contact and Negotiation


Coda, 2012: From Dartmouth to New London


References


Index


About the Author