As Debby Boone and Rocky Balboa raised the hopes of a country in
financial and political crisis, U.S. colleges sought to meet the
needs of a growing and increasingly diverse student body while also
responding to the public outcry for tangible results. Within
English departments, especially in publicly funded institutions,
writing instruction came under heightened scrutiny as politicians
and taxpayers wondered "Why Johnny Can't Write." Scholars and
teachers of writing responded as best they could to these
pressures, conducting research on writing processes, developing new
pedagogies better suited than skills-and-drills to new student
populations, and slowly establishing themselves as disciplinary
professionals within rapidly changing and often tumultuous
institutions. A product of extensive archival research and numerous
interviews, 1977: A CULTURAL MOMENT IN COMPOSITION examines the
local, state, and national forces (economic, political, cultural,
and academic) that fostered the development of the first-year
composition program at one representative site, Penn State
University, in the late 1970s. Sidebar commentaries from Stephen A.
Bernhardt, Hugh Burns, Sharon Crowley, Lester Faigley, Janice
Lauer, Elaine Maimon, Jasper Neel, and John Warnock-many of whom
were just beginning in the field in 1977-enrich and complicate the
story. In the emerging tradition of program-based histories, such
as Barbara L'Eplattenier and Lisa Mastrangelo's HISTORICAL STUDIES
OF WRITING PROGRAM ADMINISTRATION (Parlor Press, 2005), 1977: A
CULTURAL MOMENT IN COMPOSITION offers a counterpoint to broader
institutional histories of composition by investigating how local
phenomena can be explained by larger movements and how larger
movements can be understood through local contexts. - BRENT HENZE
is Associate Professor of English at East Carolina University. His
research on the rhetoric of science, reporting genres in
ethnological science, scientific institutions, and the scientific
treatment of racial difference has appeared in TECHNICAL
COMMUNICATION, TECHNICAL COMMUNICATION QUARTERLY, RHETORIC REVIEW,
and elsewhere. JACK SELZER is Professor of English and Associate
Dean for Graduate and Undergraduate Studies in the College of the
Liberal Arts at Penn State. Currently President of the Rhetoric
Society of America, he is the author, coauthor, editor, or coeditor
of KENNETH BURKE IN GREENWICH VILLAGE, KENNETH BURKE IN THE 1930S,
KENNETH BURKE AND HIS CIRCLES (Parlor Press, 2008), RHETORICAL
BODIES, UNDERSTANDING SCIENTIFIC PROSE, and GOOD REASONS. - WENDY
SHARER is Associate Professor of English and Director of
Composition at East Carolina University. She is the author of VOTE
AND VOICE: WOMEN'S ORGANIZATIONS AND POLITICAL LITERACY, 1915-1930
(2004) and co-editor of RHETORICAL EDUCATION IN AMERICA (2004). Her
work appears in several edited collections, as well as in journals
such as RHETORIC REVIEW and RHETORIC SOCIETY QUARTERLY.
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