Placing the History of College Writing: Stories from the Incomplete Archive

by Nathan Shepley

Overview

Pre-1950s composition history, if analyzed with the right conceptual tools, can pluralize and clarify our understanding of the relationship between the writing of college students and the writing’s physical, social, and discursive surroundings.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781602358034
Publisher:	Parlor Press, LLC
Publication date:	03/22/2016
Series:	Perspectives on Writing
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	162
File size:	4 MB

About the Author

Nathan Shepley is Assistant Professor of English at the University of Houston, where he teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in Rhetoric and Composition. In addition to composition history, his specialization areas include composition pedagogy and ecological and neosophistic theories of writing. His articles have appeared in Composition Studies, Enculturation, Composition Forum, and Open Words: Access and English Studies.