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.