UID:
almafu_9960101950802883
Format:
1 online resource (609 p.)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
0-8229-9056-3
Series Statement:
Pittsburgh series in composition, literacy, and culture
Content:
This volume describes the formative years of English composition courses in college through a study of the most prominent documents of the time: magazine articles, scholarly reports, early textbooks, teachers' testimonies-and some of the actual student papers that provoked discussion. Includes writings by leading scholars of the era such as Adams Sherman Hill, Gertrude Buck, William Edward Mead, Lane Cooper, William Lyon Phelps, and Fred Newton Scott.
Note:
Description based upon print version of record.
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The first composition program: Harvard, 1870-1900 -- The new writing curriculum, 1895-1915 -- The attack on the Harvard program, 1890-1917 -- Textbooks for a new discipline -- Writing the essay.
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-8229-5535-0
Language:
English
Keywords:
History.
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Electronic books.
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