Editor(s): Ostergaard, Lori; Wood, Henrietta Rix. Series: Pittsburgh Series in Composition, Literacy and Culture. Num Pages: 232 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: JNFD; JNM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 525. . 2015. 1st Edition. Paperback. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.

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Title: In the Archives of Composition: Writing and Rhetoric in High Schools and Normal Schools (Pitt Comp Literacy Culture)
Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
Publication Date: 2015
Language: English
ISBN 10: 0822963779
ISBN 13: 9780822963776
Binding: Soft cover
Condition: New

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In the Archives of Composition offers new and revisionary narratives of composition and rhetoric's history. It examines composition instruction and practice at secondary schools and normal colleges, the two institutions that trained the majority of U.S. composition teachers and students during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Drawing from a broad array of archival and documentary sources, the contributors provide accounts of writing instruction within contexts often overlooked by current historical scholarship. Topics range from the efforts of young women to attain rhetorical skills in an antebellum academy, to the self-reflections of Harvard University students on their writing skills in the 1890s, to a close reading of a high school girl's diary in the 1960s that offers a new perspective on curriculum debates of this period. Taken together, the chapters begin to recover how high school students, composition teachers, and English education programs responded to institutional and local influences, political movements, and pedagogical innovations over a one-hundred-and-thirty-year span.

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Lori Ostergaard is associate professor and chair of the department of writing and rhetoric at Oakland University in Rochester, Michigan.

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