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The Origins of Composition Studies in the American College, 1875โ1925
A Documentary History
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The Origins of Composition Studies in the American College, 1875โ1925
A Documentary History
About this book
This volume describes the formative years of English composition courses in college through a study of the most prominent documents of the time: magazine articles, scholarly reports, early textbooks, teachers' testimonies-and some of the actual student papers that provoked discussion. Includes writings by leading scholars of the era such as Adams Sherman Hill, Gertrude Buck, William Edward Mead, Lane Cooper, William Lyon Phelps, and Fred Newton Scott.
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Storia della didatticaTable of contents
- Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- 1. Introduction
- 2. The First Composition Program: Harvard, 1870-1900
- 3. The New Writing Curriculum, 1895-1915
- 4. The Attack on the Harvard Program, 1890-1917
- 5. Textbooks for a New Discipline
- 6. Writing the Essay
- 7. Conclusion
- Bibliography
- Index