Authoring a Discipline traces the post-World War II emergence of
rhetoric and composition as a discipline within departments of
English in institutions of higher education in the United States.
Goggin brings to light both the evolution of this discipline and
many of the key individuals involved in its development. Drawing on
archival and oral evidence, this history offers a comprehensive and
systematic investigation of scholarly journals, the editors who
directed them, and the authors who contributed to them,
demonstrating the influence that publications and participants have
had in the emergence of rhetoric and composition as an independent
field of study. Goggin considers the complex struggles in which
scholars and teachers engaged to stake ground and to construct a
professional and disciplinary identity. She identifies major
debates and controversies that ignited as the discipline emerged
and analyzes how the editors and contributors to the major
scholarly journals helped to shape, and in turn were shaped by, the
field of rhetoric and composition. She also coins a new
term--discipliniographer--to describe those who write the field
through authoring and authorizing work, thus creating the social
and political contexts in which the discipline emerged. The
research presented here demonstrates clearly how disciplines are
social products, born of political struggles for both intellectual
and material spaces.
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