The Origins of Composition Studies in the American College, 1875–1925: A Documentary History
edited by John C. Brereton
University of Pittsburgh Press, 1996
eISBN: 978-0-8229-9056-7 | Paper: 978-0-8229-5535-1
Library of Congress Classification PE1405.U6O75 1995
Dewey Decimal Classification 808.042071173
eISBN: 978-0-8229-9056-7 | Paper: 978-0-8229-5535-1
Library of Congress Classification PE1405.U6O75 1995
Dewey Decimal Classification 808.042071173
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ABOUT THIS BOOK
This volume describes the formative years of English composition courses in college through a study of the most prominent documents of the time: magazine articles, scholarly reports, early textbooks, teachers' testimonies-and some of the actual student papers that provoked discussion. Includes writings by leading scholars of the era such as Adams Sherman Hill, Gertrude Buck, William Edward Mead, Lane Cooper, William Lyon Phelps, and Fred Newton Scott.
AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY
John C. Brereton is professor of English at the University of Massachusetts, Boston.
REVIEWS
“With [this book] John C. Brereton does for composition studies what Gerald Graff and Michael Warner did in 1989 for literary studies: establishes a context for the discipline’s institutionalization and professionalism in the academy.
—Composition Studies
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Contents
Preface
Acknowledgments
1. Introduction
2. The First Composition Program: Harvard, 1870-1900
Rollo Walter Brown, Dean Briggs (1926)
Three Harvard Catalogue Course Descriptions from Twenty Years of School and College English (1896)
Adams Sherman Hill, "An Answer to the Cry for More English" (1879)
Le Baron Russell Briggs, "The Harvard Admission Examination in English," The Academy (1888)
Charles Francis Adams, Edwin Lawrence Godkin, and George R. Nutter, Report of the Committee on Composition and Rhetoric (1897)
Barrett Wendell, "English at Harvard University," in English in American Universities, Edited by William Morton Payne (1895)
3. The New Writing Curriculum, 1895-1915
John Franklin Genung, The Study of Rhetoric in the College Course (1887)
William Morton Payne, Editor, English in American Universities, by Professors in the English Departments of Twenty Representative Institutions (1895)
Yale University: Albert Stanburrough Cook
Stanford University: Melville B. Anderson
University of Iowa: Edward Everett Hale Jr.
Indiana University: Marrin Wrighr Sampson
University of California: Charles Mills Gayley
Amherst College: John Franklin Genung
University of Michigan: Fred Newton Scott
University of Nebraska: Lucius Adelno Sherman
University of Pennsylvania: Felix Emanuel Schelling
Wellesley College: Katherine Lee Bates
University of Minnesota: George MacLean
William Edward Mead, "Report of the Pedagogical Section: The Graduate Study of Rhetoric," PMLA 16 (1901)
William Edward Mead, "Report of the Pedagogical Section: The Undergraduate Study of English Composition," PMLA 17 (1902)
William Edward Mead, "Report of the Pedagogical Section: Conflicting Ideals in the Teaching of English," PMLA 18 (1903)
Karl Young, "The Organization of a Course in Freshman English," English Journal 4 (1915)
4. The Attack on the Harvard Program, 1890-1917
"Two Ways of Teaching English," Century Magazine 51 (1896)
Gertrude Buck, "Recent Tendencies in rhe Teaching of English Composition," Educational Review 22 (1901)
Lane Cooper, "On the Teaching of Written Composition," Education 30 (1910)
Thomas Raynesford Lounsbury, "Compulsory Composition in Colleges," Harper's Monthly 123 (1911)
William Lyon Phelps, "English Composition," in Teaching in School and College (1912)
Lane Cooper, "The Correction of Papers," English Journal 3 (1914)
Frank Aydelotte, "The History of English as a College Subject in the United States," in The Oxford Stamp and Other Essays: Articles from the Educational Creed of an American Oxonian (1917)
Bliss Perry, And Gladly Teach (1935)
5. Textbooks for a New Discipline
Edwin A. Abbott, How to Write Clearly: Rules and Exercises on English Composition (1875)
Adams Sherman Hill, The Principles of Rhetoric and Their Application (1878)
John Franklin Genung, The Practical Elements of Rhetoric with Illustrative Examples (1885)
Barrett Wendell, English Composition, Eight Lectures Given at the Lowell Institute (1891)
Fred Newton Scott and Joseph Villiers Denney, Paragraph-Writing (1893)
Luella Clay Carson, Compilation of Standard Rules and Regulations Used by the English Department of the University of Oregon (1898)
Edwin Campbell Woolley, Handbook of Composition (1907)
SIX MODERN READERS, 1907-1915
Lane Cooper, Theories of Style: With Especial Reference to Prose Composition (1907)
Frances Campbell Berkeley, A College Course in Writing from Models (1910)
Harrison Ross Steeves and Frank Humphrey Ristine, Editors, Representative Essays in Modern Thought: A Basis for Composition (1913)
Norman Foerster, Frederick A. Manchester, and Karl Young, Essays for College Men (1913)
Norman Foerster, Frederick A. Manchester, and Karl Young, Essays for College Men, Second Series (1915)
Maurice Garland Fulton, Expository Writing (1912)
William Strunk Jr., The Elements of Style (1918)
Norman Foerster and John Marcellus Steadman Jr., Sentences and Thinking: A Practice Book in Sentence Making (1914)
John Matthews Manly and Edith Rickert, The Writing of English (1919)
6. Writing the Essay
Examinations from Adams Sherman Hill's English A for the Academic Year 1887-88
Barrett Wendell, "Note for Teachers," in English Composition, Eight Lectures Given at the Lowell Institute (1894)
James Morgan Hart, A Handbook of English Composition (1895)
Robert Grosvenor Valentine, "On Criticism of Themes by Students," Technology Review 2 (1901)
University of Illinois, "Outline of Rhetoric I" (1907)
University of Minnesota, "Instructions to Students in Rhetoric 1-2" (1913)
Frances Berkeley Young and Karl Young, Freshman English: A Manual (1914)
Thirteen Themes from Franklin William Scott and Jacob Zeitlin, College Readings in English Prose (1914)
Ten 1891 Harvard First-Year Composition Essays, from Charles Francis Adams, Edwin Lawrence Godkin, and Josiah Quincy, Report of the Committee on Composition and Rhetoric (1892)
Eight Harvard Themes from C. T. Copeland and H. M. Rideout, Freshman English and Theme-Correcting in Harvard College (1901)
A University of Wisconsin First-Year Student Essay from Edwin C. Woolley, "Admission to Freshman English in the University," English Journal 3 (1914)
Two Anonymous Themes Presented as Samples of Proficient First-Year College Writing (1912)
Six University of California Placement Essays from Howard Eugene Potter, Abilities and Disabilities in the Use of English Found in the Written Compositions of Entering Freshmen at the University of California (1922)
Seven Purdue Papers from Herbert LeSourd Creek and James Hugh McKee, "The Preparation in English of Purdue Freshmen," Purdue Studies in Higher Education 5 (1926)
Warner Taylor, A National Survey of Conditions in Freshman English (1929)
Bibliography
Index
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