Confessions of a Backslider; or, How I Lost My "Ethos" because I Couldn't Read the Map of the Terrain of the Mind of Rhetoric.

Harris, Jeane

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ERIC Number: EJ426898

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Publication Date: 1991

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Confessions of a Backslider; or, How I Lost My "Ethos" because I Couldn't Read the Map of the Terrain of the Mind of Rhetoric.

Harris, Jeane

Freshman English News, v19 n2 p26-28 Spr 1991

Describes the author's estrangement from her chosen field of rhetoric and composition. Attributes it to her appointment as Director of Composition, her felt need to use a writing textbook, and her inability to make sense of articles on composition theory. Relates her gradual reconversion to composition via remembering that ethos is everything. (SR)

Descriptors: College English, Freshman Composition, Higher Education, Teacher Alienation, Teacher Attitudes, Teacher Burnout, Writing Teachers

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Language: English

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