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Author

Connors, Robert J., 1951-

Title Composition-rhetoric : backgrounds, theory, and pedagogy / Robert J. Connors.

Imprint

Pittsburgh, Pa. : University of Pittsburgh Press, c1997.

Copies

Location	Call No.	OPAC Message	Status
Axe 2nd Floor Stacks	808.042 C762c	---	Available

Description	x, 374 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Series	Pittsburgh series in composition, literacy, and culture
Bibliography	Includes bibliography (p. 347-364) and index.
Contents	Gender influences : composition-rhetoric as an irenic rhetoric -- Shaping tools : textbooks and the development of composition-rhetoric -- Composition-rhetoric, grammar, and mechanical correctness -- Licensure, disciplinary identity, and workload in composition-rhetoric -- Discourse taxonomies in composition-rhetoric -- Style theory and static abstractions -- Invention and assignments in composition-rhetoric.
Subject	English language -- Rhetoric -- Study and teaching -- History.
	Academic writing -- Study and teaching -- History.
	Language and culture -- History.
	Education, Higher -- History.
ISBN	0822956306 (pbk. : acid-free paper)
	0822939797 (acid-free paper)