Before Shaughnessy : Basic Writing at Yale and Harvard, 1920-1960.

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Author / Creator:Ritter, Kelly.
Imprint:Carbondale : Southern Illinois University Press, 2009.
Description:1 online resource (191 pages)
Language:English
Series:Studies in Writing and Rhetoric
Studies in writing & rhetoric.
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Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11242055
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ISBN:1336153636
9781336153639
9780809389865
080938986X
Notes:Includes bibliographical references (pages 155-163) and index.
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Summary:In Before Shaughnessy: Basic Writing at Yale and Harvard, 1920-1960, Kelly Ritter uses materials from the archives at Harvard and Yale and contemporary theories of writing instruction to reconsider the definition of basic writing and basic writers within a socio-historical context. Ritter challenges the association of basic writing with only poorly funded institutions and poorly prepared students. Using Yale and Harvard as two sample case studies, Ritter shows that basic writing courses were alive and well, even in the Ivy League, in the early twentieth century. She argues not only that bas.
Other form:Print version: Ritter, Kelly. Before Shaughnessy : Basic Writing at Yale and Harvard, 1920-1960. Carbondale : Southern Illinois University Press, ©2009 9780809329243