From Form to Meaning: Freshman Composition and the Long Sixties, 1957-1974

by David Fleming

In the spring of 1968, the English faculty at the University of Wisconsin-Madison (UW) voted to remedialize the first semester of its required freshman composition course, English 101. The following year, it eliminated outright the second semester course, English 102. For the next quarter-century, UW had no real campus-wide writing requirement, putting it out of step with its peer institutions and preventing it from fully joining the \u201ccomposition...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0822961539
• ISBN13: 9780822961536
• Release Date: June 2011
• Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 8.9"