0
Your cart

Your cart is empty

Browse All Departments
  • All Departments
Price
  • R500 - R1,000 (2)
  • -
Status
Brand

Showing 1 - 2 of 2 matches in All Departments

Reclaiming Accountability - Improving Writing Programs through Accreditation and Large-Scale Assessments (Paperback): Wendy... Reclaiming Accountability - Improving Writing Programs through Accreditation and Large-Scale Assessments (Paperback)
Wendy Sharer, Tracy Ann Morse, Michelle F. Eble, William P. Banks
R839 Discovery Miles 8 390 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
1977 - A Cultural Moment in Composition (Paperback, New): Brent Henze, Jack Selzer, Wendy Sharer 1977 - A Cultural Moment in Composition (Paperback, New)
Brent Henze, Jack Selzer, Wendy Sharer
R790 Discovery Miles 7 900 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

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.

Free Delivery
Pinterest Twitter Facebook Google+
You may like...
The People's War - Reflections Of An ANC…
Charles Nqakula Paperback R325 R300 Discovery Miles 3 000
Conversations With A Gentle Soul
Ahmed Kathrada, Sahm Venter Paperback  (3)
R190 R173 Discovery Miles 1 730
Air Fryer Mini Pie Dish (4 pack)
R269 Discovery Miles 2 690
Township Violence And The End Of…
Gary Kynoch Paperback R330 R305 Discovery Miles 3 050
Light Through The Bars - Understanding…
Babychan Arackathara Paperback R30 R28 Discovery Miles 280
1/3 Insert Lid
R115 R105 Discovery Miles 1 050
Fascists, Fabricators And Fantasists…
Milton Shain Paperback R320 R295 Discovery Miles 2 950
Anzo Inspire Silicone Muffin Pan
R188 Discovery Miles 1 880
Fear - An Alternative History Of The…
Robert Peckham Paperback R773 R667 Discovery Miles 6 670
Crossroads - I Live Where I Like
Koni Benson Paperback R280 R259 Discovery Miles 2 590

 

Partners