A Short history of writing instruction : from ancient Greece to modern America / edited by James J. Murphy. - 2nd ed. - Mahwah, NJ : Erlbaum, c2001. - 335 p. ; 23 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 309-313) and index.

Ancient Greek writing instruction / Richard Leo Enos -- The key role of habit in Roman writing instruction / James J. Murphy -- Writing instruction from late antiquity to the twelfth century / Carol Dana Lanham -- The teaching of poetic composition in the later Middle Ages / Marjorie Curry Woods -- Rhetoric and writing in the Renaissance / Don Paul Abbott -- Writing instruction in Great Britain : the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries / Linda Ferreira-Buckley and Winifred Bryan Horner -- From rhetoric to composition : the teaching of writing in America to 1900 / Elizabethada A. Wright and S. Michael Halloran -- A century of writing instruction in school and college English / Catherine L. Hobbs and James A. Berlin.

1880393301 (alk. paper)

00057684


Authorship--Study and teaching--History.
Rhetoric--Study and teaching--History.
Primera Jornada de Catalogación.
Retórica--Enseñanza.

PN 181 / S559 2001

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