From rhetoric to rhetorics: An interim report on the history of American writing instruction to 1900

Suzanne Bordelon; Elizabethada A. Wright; S. Michael Halloran

doi:10.4324/9780203134368

From rhetoric to rhetorics: An interim report on the history of American writing instruction to 1900

Suzanne Bordelon, Elizabethada A. Wright, S. Michael Halloran

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Original language	English (US)
Title of host publication	A Short History of Writing Instruction
Subtitle of host publication	From Ancient Greece to Contemporary America
Publisher	Taylor and Francis - Balkema
Pages	209-231
Number of pages	23
ISBN (Print)	9780203134368
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203134368
State	Published - Jan 1 2012
Externally published	Yes

Keywords

Belletristic rhetoric: Blair
Catholic women’s schools
Complicating previous narratives
Conservative oral vernacular curriculum
Current-traditional rhetoric
Education for African Americans
Emerging status of rhetoric as composition
Growth in availability of textbooks
Individualized
Industrial Revolution and improved technologies for writing
Infl uence of oratorical training at non-elite schools
Jamieson
Larger numbers of university students
Leadership in the public sphere
Literacy societies
Lyceum debates
Native Americans “educated to extinction”
New importance of “correct” English
Newman
Normal schools
Orations and debates in literary societies
Rhetoric and “compositions”
Rhetorical propriety
Rise of the middle class
Schools for diverse students
Sorting of students
Specialized knowledge
Women as teachers and public persuaders
Writing as bypasser of oratory forbidden to women
Writing assignments
Writing exercises at Princeton and Harvard
“Taste” as new aesthetic criterion

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From rhetoric to rhetorics : An interim report on the history of American writing instruction to 1900. / Bordelon, Suzanne; Wright, Elizabethada A.; Halloran, S. Michael.

A Short History of Writing Instruction: From Ancient Greece to Contemporary America. Taylor and Francis - Balkema, 2012. p. 209-231.

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter

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