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A Short History of Writing Instruction: From Ancient Greece to The Modern United States

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A Short History of Writing Instruction: From Ancient Greece to The Modern United States
A Short History of Writing Instruction: From Ancient Greece to The Modern United States

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A Short History of Writing Instruction: From Ancient Greece to The Modern United States

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It preserves the legacy of writing instruction from antiquity to contemporary times with a unique focus on the material, educational, and institutional context of the Western rhetorical tradition. Its longitudinal approach enables students to track the recurrence over time of not only specific teaching methods, but also major issues such as social purpose, writing as power, the effect of technologies, orthography, the rise of vernaculars, writing as a force for democratization, and the roles of women in rhetoric and writing instruction. Each chapter provides pedagogical tools including a Glossary of Key Terms and a Bibliography for Further Study. In this edition, expanded coverage of twenty-first-century issues includes Writing Across the Curriculum pedagogy, pedagogy for multilingual writers, and social media. is an ideal text for undergraduate and graduate courses in writing studies, rhetoric and composition, and the history of education.

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