Reconceiving Writing, Rethinking Writing Instruction

by Joseph Petraglia and Petraglia

Book Overview

To a degree unknown in practically any other discipline, the pedagogical space afforded composition is the institutional engine that makes possible all other theoretical and research efforts in the field of rhetoric and writing. But composition has recently come under attack from many within the field as fundamentally misguided. Some of these critics have been labelled "New Abolitionists" for their insistence that compulsory first-year writing should...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0805816917
• ISBN13: 9780805816914
• Release Date: September 1995
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 290 Pages
• Weight: 1.41 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.9" x 9.4"