Composition: History & Theory: 1980 - 1989
Bruffee, Kenneth—Biography
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Kenneth A. Bruffee is Professor of English and Director of the Scholars Program and the Honors Academy at Brooklyn College, City University of New York.
Bruffee graduated from Wesleyan University with a Ph.D. in English from Northwestern University, and he has taught at the University of New Mexico, Northwestern University, the University of Virginia, Columbia University, Cooper Union, and the University of Pennsylvania.
Bruffee published the first peer-tutoring handbook, A Short Course in Writing, in 1972. He established the field of Writing Centers and peer tutoring’s place in university administration at Brooklyn College with administrators at other New York colleges. In 1979, Bruffee and colleagues founded the Brooklyn College Institute for Training Peer Tutors.
Bruffee’s other publications: Elegiac Romance: Cultural Change and Loss of the Hero in Modern Fiction. Collaborative Learning: Higher Education, Interdependence and the Authority of Knowledge, and articles in Modern English Quarterly, Studies in English Literature, College English, Liberal Education, and Forum for Honors, and Change.
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11/03/09