Making of Knowledge in Composition Portrait of an Emerging Field

Name: Making of Knowledge in Composition Portrait of an Emerging Field
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ISBN: 9780867091519

ISBN-10: 0867091517

ISBN-13: 9780867091519

Edition: 1987

Authors: Steven M. North

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In a style that combines scholarly care with remarkable readability, North examines the development of the field of composition in a way it has not been examined before. Rather than focusing on what people claim to know about teaching writing, he concerns himself primarily with how they claim to know it. Eight groups of knowledge-makers are treated in separate chapters: Practitioners, Historians, Philosophers, Critics, Experimentalists, Clinicians, Formalists, and Ethnographers. Each of these chapters orients the reader by tracing the mode's first uses in the field and listing its best known and most important adherents; then goes on to explain how the mode of inquiry works, illustrating…

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List price: $60.10
Copyright year: 1987
Publisher: Heinemann
Publication date: 3/17/1987
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 403
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.81" tall
Weight: 1.540
Language: English




A Historical Context composition Becomes Composition Practice as Inquiry


The Practitioners



The Scholars


The Historians


The Philosophers


The Critics


The Researchers


The Experimentalists


The Clinicians


The Formalists


The Ethnographers



The Dynamics of Inquiry 1


The ""Revolution"" in Composition Revolution, Phase II.: To the Victors . . .