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This book surveys the history of the discipline of composition, explaining how the contemporary study of writing is related to both written and oral rhetoric-- the ancient and continuing art of discourse.

In situating modern composition theory in the historical context... Read Full Overview

When it was first published in 1989, Susan Miller's Rescuing the Subject: A Critical Introduction to Rhetoric and the Writer established a landmark pedagogical approach to composition based on the importance of the writer and the act of writing in the history of rhetoric... Read Full Overview