A Teaching Subject

A Teaching Subject Composition Since 1966

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Publisher's Synopsis

In this classic text, Joseph Harris traces the evolution of college writing instruction since the Dartmouth Seminar of 1966. A Teaching Subject offers a brilliant interpretive history of the first decades during which writing studies came to be imagined as a discipline separable from its partners in English studies. Postscripts to each chapter in this new edition bring the history of composition up to the present.

Reviewing the development of the field through five key ideas, Harris unfolds a set of issues and tensions that continue to shape the teaching of writing today. Ultimately, he builds a case, now deeply influential in its own right, that composition defines itself through its interest and investment in the literacy work that students and teachers do together. Unique among English studies fields, composition is, Harris contends, a teaching subject.

Book information

ISBN: 9780874218664
Publisher: Utah State University Press
Imprint: Utah State University Press
Pub date:
Edition: New Edition
DEWEY: 808.042071
DEWEY edition: 23
Language: English
Number of pages: 191
Weight: 360g
Height: 150mm
Width: 227mm
Spine width: 13mm