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Subject(s)

• Authorship—Study and teaching—History [Browse]

Editor

• Murphy, James Jerome [Browse]
• Thaiss, Christopher, 1948- [Browse]

Summary note

This newly revised 30th Anniversary edition provides a robust introduction to the history of writing instruction in the West from Ancient Greece to the present-day United States, ideal for undergraduate and graduate courses in writing studies, rhetoric and composition, and the history of education.

Notes

Includes index.

Source of description

Description based on print version record.

Contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Dedication
• Table of Contents
• Before You Read This Book: What is the Story Here?
• 1. Ancient Greek Writing Instruction and Its Oral Antecedents
• 2. Roman Writing Instruction as Described by Quintilian
• 3. Writing Instruction from Late Antiquity to the Twelfth Century
• 4. Writing Instruction in Late Medieval Europe
• 5. Reading, Writing, and Rhetoric in the Renaissance
• 6. Continuity and Change in Writing Instruction in Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Great Britain
• 7. "Available Means" of Rhetorical Instruction: "Broadening Perspectives" on Rhetorical Education Prior to 1900
• 8. Writing Instruction in U.S. Colleges and Schools: The Twentieth Century and the New Millennium
• Not a Conclusion but an Epilogue
• Glossary of Key Terms in the History of Writing Instruction
• The Next Step in Your Research: A Bibliography for Further Study
• Contributors
• Index.

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ISBN

• 1-00-302089-5
• 1-000-05355-5
• 1-003-02089-5

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