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Author | : Thomas P. Miller |
Publisher | : University of Pittsburgh Pre |
Total Pages | : 346 |
Release | : 2014-03-18 |
Genre | : Education |
ISBN | : 082297777X |
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Thomas P. Miller defines college English studies as literacy studies and examines how it has evolved in tandem with broader developments in literacy and the literate. He maps out "four corners" of English departments: literature, language studies, teacher education, and writing studies. Miller identifies their development with broader changes in the technologies and economies of literacy that have redefined what students write and read, which careers they enter, and how literature represents their experiences and aspirations. Miller locates the origins of college English studies in the colonial transition from a religious to an oratorical conception of literature. A belletristic model of literature emerged in the nineteenth century in response to the spread of the "penny" press and state-mandated schooling. Since literary studies became a common school subject, professors of literature have distanced themselves from teachers of literacy. In the Progressive era, that distinction came to structure scholarly organizations such as the MLA, while NCTE was established to develop more broadly based teacher coalitions. In the twentieth century New Criticism came to provide the operating assumptions for the rise of English departments, until those assumptions became critically overloaded with the crash of majors and jobs that began in 1970s and continues today. For models that will help the discipline respond to such challenges, Miller looks to comprehensive departments of English that value studies of teaching, writing, and language as well as literature. According to Miller, departments in more broadly based institutions have the potential to redress the historical alienation of English departments from their institutional base in work with literacy. Such departments have a potentially quite expansive articulation apparatus. Many are engaged with writing at work in public life, with schools and public agencies, with access issues, and with media, ethnic, and cultural studies. With the privatization of higher education, such pragmatic engagements become vital to sustaining a civic vision of English studies and the humanities generally.
Author | : Sharon Crowley |
Publisher | : University of Pittsburgh Pre |
Total Pages | : 324 |
Release | : 1998-05-15 |
Genre | : Education |
ISBN | : 9780822971900 |
Download Composition In The University Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Composition in the University examines the required introductory course in composition within American colleges and universities. According to Sharon Crowley, the required composition course has never been conceived in the way that other introductory courses have been—as an introduction to the principles and practices of a field of study. Rather it has been constructed throughout much of its history as a site from which larger educational and ideological agendas could be advanced, and such agendas have not always served the interests of students or teachers, even though they are usually touted as programs of study that students "need." If there is a master narrative of the history of composition, it is told in the institutional attitude that has governed administration, design, and staffing of the course from its beginnings—the attitude that the universal requirement is in place in order to construct docile academic subjects. Crowley argues that due to its association with literary studies in English departments, composition instruction has been inappropriately influenced by humanist pedagogy and that modern humanism is not a satisfactory rationale for the study of writing. She examines historical attempts to reconfigure the required course in nonhumanist terms, such as the advent of communications studies during the 1940s. Crowley devotes two essays to this phenomenon, concentrating on the furor caused by the adoption of a communications program at the University of Iowa. Composition in the University concludes with a pair of essays that argue against maintenance of the universal requirement. In the last of these, Crowley envisions possible nonhumanist rationales that could be developed for vertical curricula in writing instruction, were the universal requirement not in place. Crowley presents her findings in a series of essays because she feels the history of the required composition course cannot easily be understood as a coherent narrative since understandings of the purpose of the required course have altered rapidly from decade to decade, sometimes in shockingly sudden and erratic fashion. The essays in this book are informed by Crowley's long career of teaching composition, administering a composition program, and training teachers of the required introductory course. The book also draw on experience she gained while working with committees formed by the Conference on College Composition and Communication toward implementation of the Wyoming Resolution, an attempt to better the working conditions of post-secondary teachers of writing.
Author | : Colette Moore |
Publisher | : Modern Language Association |
Total Pages | : 266 |
Release | : 2019-05-01 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 160329385X |
Download Teaching the History of the English Language Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
The study of the history of the English language (HEL) encompasses a broad sweep of time and space, reaching back to the fifth century and around the globe. Further, the language has always varied from place to place and continues to evolve today. Instructors face the challenges of teaching this vast subject in one semester and of engaging students with unfamiliar material and techniques. This volume guides instructors in designing an HEL course suited to their own interests and institutions. The essays consider what subjects of HEL to include, how to organize the course, and what textbook to assign. They offer historical approaches and those that are not structured by chronology. Sample assignments provide opportunities for students to conduct original research, work with archives and digital resources, and investigate language in their communities. The essays also help students question notions of linguistic correctness.
Author | : Edward Miner Gallaudet |
Publisher | : Gallaudet University Press |
Total Pages | : 296 |
Release | : 1983 |
Genre | : Education |
ISBN | : 9780913580851 |
Download History of the College for the Deaf, 1857-1907 Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Author | : John C. Brereton |
Publisher | : University of Pittsburgh Press |
Total Pages | : 609 |
Release | : 1996-01-15 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 0822990563 |
Download The Origins of Composition Studies in the American College, 1875–1925 Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
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.
Author | : W. Ross Winterowd |
Publisher | : SIU Press |
Total Pages | : 288 |
Release | : 1998 |
Genre | : Education |
ISBN | : 9780809321698 |
Download The English Department Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
To understand the history of "English", Ross Winterowd insists, one must understand how literary studies, composition-rhetoric studies, and influential textbooks interrelate. Stressing the interrelationship among these three forces, Winterowd presents a history of English studies in the university since the Enlightenment.
Author | : Nathan Shepley |
Publisher | : Parlor Press LLC |
Total Pages | : 162 |
Release | : 2016-03-22 |
Genre | : Education |
ISBN | : 1602358036 |
Download Placing the History of College Writing Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Pre-1950s composition history, if analyzed with the right conceptual tools, can pluralize and clarify our understanding of the relationship between the writing of college students and the writing’s physical, social, and discursive surroundings.
Author | : Frederick C. Arnold |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 264 |
Release | : 1984 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9780933704480 |
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Author | : Christine A. Ogren |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 311 |
Release | : 2018-07-19 |
Genre | : Education |
ISBN | : 3319756141 |
Download Rethinking Campus Life Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This edited volume explores the history of student life throughout the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Chapter authors examine the expanding reach of scholarship on the history of college students; the history of underrepresented students, including black, Latino, and LGBTQ students; and student life at state normal schools and their successors, regional colleges and universities, and at community colleges and evangelical institutions. The book also includes research on drag and gender and on student labor activism, and offers new interpretations of fraternity and sorority life. Collectively, these chapters deepen scholarly understanding of students, the diversity of their experiences at an array of institutions, and the campus lives they built.
Author | : James Cloyd Bowman |
Publisher | : Hardpress Publishing |
Total Pages | : 488 |
Release | : 2012-08 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781290643900 |
Download Essays for College English Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made available for future generations to enjoy.