Landmark Essays on Advanced Composition: Volume 10 (Landmark Essays Series) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1138177261 ISBN 13: 9781138177260

Publisher: Routledge, 2016

Synopsis

As advanced composition continues to grow as an important sub-area of rhetoric and composition, it becomes increasingly more important for scholars and teachers to have access to key studies produced in the field. Providing a comprehensive overview of significant work on the theory and pedagogy of advanced composition generated between 1980 and 1995, this collection contains 24 essays and articles previously published in major scholarly books and journals.

Divided into four major areas, this book:
* explores how individuals and institutions over the last 15 years have constructed advanced composition courses and programs,
* attempts to articulate what distinguishes advanced composition courses, students, and pedagogies from those commonly encountered in first-year composition,
* outlines specific pedagogies for advanced composition, and
* investigates how scholarship can inform advanced composition and examines several political and ethical issues.

The essays presented here chronicle composition's struggle to define and construct an appropriate writing course on the advanced level. Although these essays have clear historical value -- in that together they trace attempts to come to terms with advanced composition -- they also have implications for future work in the area. They suggest how educators might continue to draw on scholarship both within and outside of composition to investigate relevant theoretical issues and to construct effective advanced pedagogies.

About this title

About the Author:

Gary A. Olsonis the president of Daemen College. Previously, he was the provost and vice president for academic affairs and a professor of English at Idaho State University. His most recent book is"A Creature of Our Own Making: Reflections on Contemporary Academic Life". He also authored"Justifying Belief: Stanley Fish and the Work of Rhetoric"and coedited"Postmodern Sophistry: Stanley Fish and the Critical Enterprise".

About this edition

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2016
• ISBN 10: 1138177261
• ISBN 13: 9781138177260
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 270
• Editor: Olson Gary A., Drew Julie