Before Shaughnessy: Basic Writing at Yale and Harvard, 1920-1960

by Kelly Ritter

In Before Shaughnessy: Basic Writing at Yale and Harvard, 1920-1960, Kelly Ritter uses materials from the archives at Harvard and Yale and contemporary theories of writing instruction to reconsider the definition of basic writing and basic writers within a socio-historical context. Ritter challenges the association of basic writing with only poorly funded institutions and poorly prepared students.

Using Yale and Harvard as two sample...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0809329247
• ISBN13: 9780809329243
• Release Date: August 2009
• Publisher: Southern Illinois University Press
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 0.52 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.5" x 8.4"