1st Edition
Landmark Essays on Writing Across the Curriculum Volume 6
280 Pages
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Routledge
280 Pages
by
Routledge
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Rhetoric, as a general teaching -- while preaching locality of action and guidelines for handling that locality -- has tended from the beginning to serve as a universality. It has offered a generalized techne with only limited categories, appropriate for all discursive situations, at least for those that were not excluded from the realm of rhetoric. Nonetheless, from its beginnings, rhetoric... Read more
Contents: Preface: Writing Across Curriculum as a Challenge to Rhetoric and Composition (1994). Introduction: The Rhetorical Tradition and Specialized Discourses (1994). Section 1: Twentieth Century Beginnings. D.R. Russell, American Origins of the Writing-across-the-Curriculum Movement (1992). J.F. Hosic, Effective Ways of Securing Co-operation of All Departments in the Teaching of English Composition (1913). Section 2: Recent Programmatic and Institutional Projects. N. Martin, P. D'Arcy, B. Newton, R. Parker, The Development of Writing Abilities (1976). T. Fulwiler, How Well Does Writing Across the Curriculum Work? (1984). J.L. Kinneavy, Writing Across the Curriculum (1983). S.H. McLeod, Writing Across the Curriculum: The Second Stage, and Beyond (1989). Section 3: What Happens in the Disciplinary Classroom? J. Emig, Writing as a Mode of Learning (1977). A.J. Herrington, Writing in Academic Settings: A Study of the Contexts for Writing in Two College Chemical Engineering Courses (1985). L.P. McCarthy, A Stranger in Strange Lands: A College Student Writing Across the Curriculum (1987). Section 4: Writing in the Disciplines. C. Bazerman, What Written Knowledge Does: Three Examples of Academic Discourse (1981). G. Myers, The Social Construction of Two Biologists' Proposals (1985). C. Berkenkotter, T.N. Huckin, J. Ackerman, Social Context and Socially Constructed Texts (1991).
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