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Karen I. Spear - Controversy and Consensus in Freshman Writing: An Overview of the Field - The Review of Higher Education 20:3 on 2009-08-26
- In
  other words, so long as there was a fixed curriculum taught to a very
  homogeneous student body by a very homogeneous faculty, there was no
  literacy crisis
- Interestingly, each successive literacy crisis in American
  higher education parallels the infusion of large numbers of new kinds
  of students into colleges and universities: the town and farm children
  of the post Civil War period, returning soldiers in both post World War
  periods, children of immigrants in the 1930s, the first wave of inner-city
  students in the 1960s, and the current wave of multicultural students
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- - "current-traditional."
  - any approach to teaching writing is embedded
    in a host of rhetorical and ideological assumptions
  - freshman writing instruction focuses exclusively on the writer
    as individual and not as part of a rhetorical situation
  - Since skills are so fundamental, they occupy the bottom in
    a hierarchical theory of learning that makes writing preparatory for
    higher-order activities
  - Only recently have compositionists and their colleagues in other
    disciplines undertaken serious and genuinely collaborative efforts to
    truly understand the discourse conventions of the disciplines
  - which turned "rhetoric" into
    "composition,"
  - they tend to be appointed to administrative positions as composition
    directors where they supervise the graduate students--many of whom are
    in literature programs
WRITER'S TOOLBOX: 35 Best Tools for Writing Online on 2009-01-12
- the world of authorship
- added appeal of being an independent option
English 503: Composition Theory on 2009-01-12
History and Overviews of Composition Studies (Howard) on 2009-01-12
TimeDriver - A revolutionary online personal appointment scheduler on 2008-11-24
Macarthur Foundation Report on New Media and Learning on 2008-11-20
NMC Rock the Academy conference program on 2008-11-06
nceta » home on 2008-10-23
Copyright, RSS, and Common Sense (RSS4Lib) on 2008-10-22
Who Owns All These Comments? You? Us? Someone Else? - ReadWriteWeb on 2008-10-22