Composition-Rhetoric: Backgrounds, Theory, and Pedagogy

by Robert J. Connors and Professor of English Robert J Connors

Connors provides a history of composition and its pedagogical approaches to form, genre, and correctness. He shows where many of the today's practices and assumptions about writing come from, and he translates what our techniques and theories of teaching have said over time about our attitudes toward students, language and life. Connors locates the beginning of a new rhetorical tradition in the mid-nineteenth century, and from there, he discusses...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0822939797
• ISBN13: 9780822939795
• Release Date: June 1997
• Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
• Length: 374 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.