Composition: History & Theory: 1900 - 1919
Composition Theory
Description
In Rhetoric and Reality: Writing Instruction in American Colleges, 1900-1985 (1987), James Berlin outlines four types of rhetoric that were prevalent during this time period: current-traditional, the rhetoric of liberal culture, rhetoric of a democracy, and the “ideas approach”. While outlining these approaches to composition, Berlin defines and analyzes the epistemologies (or philosophies about the origin, nature, and limits of human knowledge) of each.
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3/13/09