Rhetoric and Reality: Writing Instruction in American Colleges, 1900-1985. Studies in Writing & Rhetoric.

Autor/in	Berlin, James A.
Institution	Conference on Coll. Composition and Communication, Urbana, IL.
Titel	Rhetoric and Reality: Writing Instruction in American Colleges, 1900-1985. Studies in Writing & Rhetoric.
Quelle	(1987), (237 Seiten) PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Monographie
ISBN	0-8093-1360-X
Schlagwörter	Classroom Techniques; College English; Educational History; Educational Philosophy; Epistemology; Expository Writing; Higher Education; Rhetoric; Theory Practice Relationship; Writing (Composition); Writing Instruction + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Klassenführung; History of education; Bildungsgeschichte; Bildungsphilosophie; Erziehungsphilosophie; Erkenntnistheorie; Hochschulbildung; Hochschulsystem; Hochschulwesen; Rhetorik; Theorie-Praxis-Beziehung; Schreibübung; Schreibunterricht
Abstract	Intended for teachers of college composition, this history of major and minor developments in the teaching of writing in twentieth-century American colleges employs a taxonomy of theories based on the three epistemological categories (objective, subjective, and transactional) dominating rhetorical theory and practice. The first section of the book provides an overview of the three theories, specifically their assumptions and rhetorics. The main chapters cover the following topics: (1) the nineteenth-century background, on the formation of the English department and the subsequent relationship of rhetoric and poetic; (2) the growth of the discipline (1900-1920), including the formation of the National Council of Teachers of English, the appearance of the major schools of rhetoric, the efficiency movement, graduate education in rhetoric, undergraduate courses and the Great War; (3) the influence of progressive education (1920-1940), including the writing program and current-traditional rhetoric, liberal culture, and expressionistic and social rhetoric; (4) the communication emphasis (1940-1960), including the communications course, the founding of the Conference on College Composition and Communication, literature and composition, linguistics and composition, and the revival of rhetoric; and (5) the renaissance of rhetoric and major rhetorical approaches (1960-1975), including contemporary theories based on the three epistemic categories. A final chapter briefly surveys developments through 1987. (JG)
Anmerkungen	Southern Illinois University Press, P.O Box 3697, Carbondale, IL 62901 ($8.50).
Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC