Rhetoric and Reality: Writing Instruction in American Colleges, 1900 - 1985

by James A. Berlin

Book Overview

Berlin here continues his unique history of American college com­position begun in his Writing Instruction in Nineteenth-Century Colleges (1984), turning now to the twentieth century.

In discussing the variety of rhetorics that have been used in writ­ing classrooms Berlin introduces a taxonomy made up of three cate­gories: objective rhetorics, subjective rhetorics, and transactional rhetorics, which are distinguished...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 080931360X
• ISBN13: 9780809313600
• Release Date: February 1987
• Publisher: Southern Illinois University Press
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.5" x 8.4"