Local histories : reading the archives of composition / edited by Patricia Donahue and Gretchen Flesher Moon ; foreword by Mariolina Rizzi Salvatori.
| Other author | Donahue, Patricia, 1953- |
| Other author | Moon, Gretchen Flesher. |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | Pittsburgh, PA : Pittsburgh Press, ©2007. |
| Description | 1 online resource (xiv, 260 pages). |
| Supplemental Content | JSTOR |
| Subjects |
| Series | Pittsburgh series in composition, literacy, and culture Pittsburgh series in composition, literacy, and culture. ^A299123 |
| Contents | (This is not a) foreword / Mariolina Rizzi Salvatori -- Locating composition history / Gretchen Flesher Moon -- Thinking like that : the ideal nineteenth-century student writer / Kathleen A. Welsch -- (The teaching of) reading and writing at Lafayette College / Patricia Donahue, Bianca Falbo -- A chair "perpetually filled by a female professor" : rhetoric and composition instruction at nineteenth-century Butler University / Heidemarie Z. Weidner -- Vida Scudder in the classroom and in the archives / Julie Garbus -- Mid-nineteenth-century writing instruction at Illinois State Normal University : credentials, correctness, and the rise of a teaching class / Kenneth Lindblom, William Banks, Rise Quay -- The Platteville Papers revisited : gender and genre in a normal school writing assignment / Kathryn Fitzgerald -- "Our life's work" : rhetorical preparation and teacher training at a Massachusetts State Normal School, 1839-1929 / Beth Ann Rothermel -- Life in the margins : student writing and curricular change at Fitchburg Normal, 1895-1910 / Patrice K. Gray -- William Rainey Harper and the ideology of service at junior colleges / William DeGenaro -- The progressive faculty/student discourse of 1969-1970 and the emergence of Lincoln University's writing program / Jeffrey L. Hoogeveen -- Disciplinary histories : a meditation on beginnings / Patricia Donahue -- Afterword / Jean Ferguson Carr. |
| Abstract | In <i>Local Histories</i>, the contributors seek to challenge the widely held belief that the origin of American composition as a distinguishable discipline can be traced to a small number of elite colleges such as Harvard, Yale, and Michigan in the mid- to late nineteenth century. Through extensive archival research at liberal arts colleges, normal schools, historically black colleges, and junior colleges, the contributors ascertain that many of these practices were actually in use prior to this time and were not the sole province of elite universities. Though not discounting the elites' influence, the findings conclude that composition developed in many locales concurrently. Individual chapters reflect on student responses to curricula, the influence of particular instructors or pedagogies in the context of compositional history, and the difficulties inherent in archival research. What emerges is an original and significant study of the developmental diversity within the discipline of composition that opens the door to further examination of local histories as guideposts to the origins of composition studies. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (pages 241-250) and index. |
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| Reproduction note | Electronic reproduction. [S.l.] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010. MiAaHDL |
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| Issued in other form | Print version: Local histories. Pittsburgh, PA : Pittsburgh Press, ©2007 |
| Genre/form | History. |
| Genre/form | Sources. |
| LCCN | 2007016300 |
| ISBN | 9780822959540 (pbk. ; alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 0822959542 (pbk. ; alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 0822973189 |
| ISBN | 9780822973188 |
| Stock number | 22573/ctv13djhd9 JSTOR |