UID:
edoccha_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:
〈div〉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.〈/div〉
Note:
Description based upon print version of record.
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""Contents""; ""Preface""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""1. Introduction""; ""2. The First Composition Program: Harvard, 1870-1900""; ""Rollo Walter Brown, Dean Briggs (1926)""; ""Three Harvard Catalogue Course Descriptions from Twenty Years of School and College English (1896)""; ""Adams Sherman Hill, ""An Answer to the Cry for More English"" (1879)""; ""Le Baron Russell Briggs, ""The Harvard Admission Examination in English,"" The Academy (1888)""; ""Charles Francis Adams, Edwin Lawrence Godkin, and Josiah Quincy, Report of the Committee on Composition and Rhetoric (1892)""
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""Charles Francis Adams, Edwin Lawrence Godkin, and George R. Nutter, Report of the Committee on Composition and Rhetoric (1897)""""Barrett Wendell, ""English at Harvard University,"" in English in American Universities, Edited by William Morton Payne (1895)""; ""3. The New Writing Curriculum, 1895-1915""; ""John Franklin Genung, The Study of Rhetoric in the College Course (1887)""; ""William Morton Payne, Editor, English in American Universities, by Professors in the English Departments of Twenty Representative Institutions (1895)""; ""Yale University: Albert Stanburrough Cook""
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""Stanford University: Melville B. Anderson""""University of Iowa: Edward Everett Hale Jr.""; ""Indiana University: Marrin Wrighr Sampson""; ""University of California: Charles Mills Gayley""; ""Amherst College: John Franklin Genung""; ""University of Michigan: Fred Newton Scott""; ""University of Nebraska: Lucius Adelno Sherman""; ""University of Pennsylvania: Felix Emanuel Schelling""; ""Wellesley College: Katherine Lee Bates""; ""University of Minnesota: George MacLean""; ""William Edward Mead, ""Report of the Pedagogical Section: The Graduate Study of Rhetoric,"" PMLA 16 (1901)""
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""William Edward Mead, ""Report of the Pedagogical Section: The Undergraduate Study of English Composition,"" PMLA 17 (1902)""""William Edward Mead, ""Report of the Pedagogical Section: Conflicting Ideals in the Teaching of English,"" PMLA 18 (1903)""; ""Karl Young, ""The Organization of a Course in Freshman English,"" English Journal 4 (1915)""; ""4. The Attack on the Harvard Program, 1890-1917""; """"Two Ways of Teaching English,"" Century Magazine 51 (1896)""; ""Gertrude Buck, ""Recent Tendencies in rhe Teaching of English Composition,"" Educational Review 22 (1901)""
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""Lane Cooper, ""On the Teaching of Written Composition,"" Education 30 (1910)""""Thomas Raynesford Lounsbury, ""Compulsory Composition in Colleges,"" Harper's Monthly 123 (1911)""; ""William Lyon Phelps, ""English Composition,"" in Teaching in School and College (1912)""; ""Lane Cooper, ""The Correction of Papers,"" English Journal 3 (1914)""; ""Frank Aydelotte, ""The History of English as a College Subject in the United States,"" in The Oxford Stamp and Other Essays: Articles from the Educational Creed of an American Oxonian (1917)""; ""Bliss Perry, And Gladly Teach (1935)""
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""5. Textbooks for a New Discipline""
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-8229-5535-0
Language:
English
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