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Record Type: CIJE
Publication Date: 1997
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Controversy and Consensus in Freshman Writing: An Overview of the Field.
Spear, Karen
Review of Higher Education, v20 n3 p319-44 Spr 1997
Discussion of the controversy over freshman composition course requirements looks at the origins and evolution of such courses in American higher education, philosophy underlying rhetoric instruction, criticisms of freshman English courses, the writing-across-the-curriculum movement, attitudes about mechanical correctness in writing instruction, and the current status of freshman composition. (MSE)
Descriptors: Change Strategies, College Freshmen, Course Content, Course Organization, Educational Attitudes, Educational Change, Educational History, Educational Trends, Error Correction, Freshman Composition, Higher Education, Rhetoric, Trend Analysis, Writing Across the Curriculum, Writing Instruction
Publication Type: Reports - Research; Journal Articles
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Language: English
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