Readings in writing courses : re-placing literature in composition

• Main Author: Raymond, Richard C. (Author)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Bingley, U.K : Emerald Publishing Limited : Information Age Publishing, [2011]
• Subjects: English language > Rhetoric > Study and teaching.; Education > Teaching > Subjects > Language Arts.; Teaching of a specific subject.; Teaching of reading, writing and numeracy.; Educational: Language, literature and literacy.; elektronické knihy; electronic books
• ISBN: 9781806616824
• DOI: 10.1108/978-1-61735-143-3
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (viii, 188 pages)

As the title suggests, this six-chapter book responds to a question which, in Western culture, goes back to Plato, Aristotle, Cicero, and Quintilian, namely, What should rhetoric teachers ask their students to read?Primarily historical, the first two chapters trace conflicting answers to the questio...