1977: A Cultural Moment in Composition

by Brent Henze, Jack Selzer

Overview

A product of extensive archival research and numerous interviews, 1977: A Cultural Moment In Composition examines the local, state, and national forces (economic, political, cultural, and academic) that fostered the development of the first-year composition program at one representative site, Penn State University, in the late 1970s.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781602357464
Publisher:	Parlor Press, LLC
Publication date:	02/20/2008
Series:	Lauer Series in Rhetoric and Composition
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	188
File size:	609 KB

About the Author

Brent Henze is Associate Professor of English at East Carolina University. His research on the rhetoric of science, reporting genres in ethnological science, scientific institutions, and the scientific treatment of racial difference has appeared in Technical Communication, Technical Communication Quarterly, Rhetoric Review, and elsewhere.
Jack Selzer is Professor of English and Associate Dean for Graduate and Undergraduate Studies in the College of the Liberal Arts at Penn State. Currently President of the Rhetoric Society of America, he is the author, coauthor, editor, or coeditor of Kenneth Burke in Greenwich Village, Kenneth Burke in the 1930s, Kenneth Burke and His Circles (Parlor Press, 2008), Rhetorical Bodies, Understanding Scientific Prose, and Good Reasons.