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

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Carbondale : Southern Illinois University Press, 2009.

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Description	1 online resource (191 pages).
Physical Medium	polychrome
Description	text file
Series	Studies in Writing and Rhetoric
	Studies in writing & rhetoric.
Note	Description based upon print version of record.
Contents	Cover; Book Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Relocating Basic Writing; 1. Locating First-Year Composition; 2. (Re)Defining Basic in Context; 3. Before 1960: The Rise of the Boneheads; 4. The "Awkward Squad" and Basic Writing at Yale; 5. Beyond English A: Harvard's Basic Writers and "Fatherly" Advice; 6. Looking Forward, Looking Back: Locating Basic Writing Today; Notes; Works Cited; Index; Series Statement; Card Page; Author Biography; Back Cover
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.
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references (pages 155-163) and index.
Local Note	eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America
Subject	English language -- Rhetoric -- Study and teaching (Higher) -- Case studies.
	English language -- Rhetoric -- Study and teaching (Higher)
Genre/Form	Case studies.
Subject	Report writing -- Study and teaching (Higher) -- Case studies.
	Report writing -- Study and teaching (Higher)
	Academic writing -- Study and teaching (Higher) -- Case studies.
	Academic writing -- Study and teaching (Higher)
	Academic writing.
	Writing centers -- Case studies.
	Writing centers.
Genre/Form	Electronic books.
	Case studies.
Other Form:	Print version: Ritter, Kelly Before Shaughnessy : Basic Writing at Yale and Harvard, 1920-1960 Carbondale : Southern Illinois University Press,c2009 9780809329243
ISBN	1336153636 electronic book
	9781336153639 electronic book
	9780809389865 electronic book
	080938986X electronic book

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