Composition in the university : historical and polemical essays / Sharon Crowley.

Author/creator Crowley, Sharon, 1943-
Format Book
Publication InfoPittsburgh : University of Pittsburgh Press, ©1998.
Descriptionxi, 306 pages ; 25 cm.
Subjects
English language--Rhetoric. --Study and teaching. --United States. --History.
English philology--Study and teaching (Higher). --United States. --History.
Report writing--Study and teaching (Higher). --United States. --History.
Education, Higher--United States. --History.

SeriesPittsburgh series in composition, literacy, and culture
Pittsburgh series in composition, literacy, and culture. ^A299123
Contents Composition in the university -- The toad in the garden -- The bourgeois subject and the demise of rhetorical education -- The invention of Freshman English -- Literature and composition : not separate but certainly unequal -- Terms of employment : rhetoric slaves and lesser men -- You can't write writing : Norman Foerster and the battle over basic skills at Iowa -- Freshman English and war -- Around 1971 : the emergence of process pedagogy -- The politics of composition -- A personal essay on Freshman English -- Composition's ethic of service, the universal requirement, and the discourse of student need.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. 279-300) and index.
LCCN 97045367
ISBN0822940566 (acid-free paper)
ISBN0822956608 (pbk. : acid-free paper)