Taking Stock: The Writing Process Movement in the 90s

by Thomas Newkirk

Book Overview

Until the late 1960s, English departments were almost exclusively literature departments. The teaching of writing was seen only as an apprenticeship for graduate students and part-timers who hoped to move on soon to more gratifying work, and most students' writing process consisted of "procrastinate, write, hand in, hope for the best." Taking Stock examines how all of this changed. Advocates of the writing process movement offered a new vision of...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0867093463
• ISBN13: 9780867093469
• Release Date: November 1994
• Publisher: Heinemann Educational Books
• Length: 287 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.1"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary