From Form to Meaning: Freshman Composition and the Long Sixties, 1957-1974 Contributor(s): Fleming, David (Author) |
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ISBN: 0822961539 ISBN-13: 9780822961536 Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press OUR PRICE: $47.50 Product Type: Paperback Published: June 2011 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Language Arts & Disciplines | Writing - General - Language Arts & Disciplines | Rhetoric |
Dewey: 808.042 |
LCCN: 2011003387 |
Series: Pitt Series in Composition, Literacy, and Culture |
Physical Information: 0.8" H x 6" W x 8.9" (1.00 lbs) 288 pages |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: In the spring of 1968, the English faculty at the University of Wisconsin-Madison (UW) voted to remedialize the first semester of its required freshman composition course, English 101. The following year, it eliminated outright the second semester course, English 102. For the next quarter-century, UW had no real campus-wide writing requirement, putting it out of step with its peer institutions and preventing it from fully joining the "composition revolution" of the 1970s. In From Form to Meaning, David Fleming chronicles these events, situating them against the backdrop of late 1960s student radicalism and within the wider changes taking place in U.S. higher education at the time. |