English Compositionism as Fraud and Failure

Autor/in	Zorn, Jeffrey
Titel	English Compositionism as Fraud and Failure
Quelle	In: Academic Questions, 26 (2013) 3, S.270-284 (15 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0895-4852
DOI	10.1007/s12129-013-9368-1
Schlagwörter	Higher Education; College Faculty; College Students; Writing Instruction; Writing (Composition); Schools of Education; Teaching Methods; Course Content; New Hampshire + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Hochschulbildung; Hochschulsystem; Hochschulwesen; Fakultät; Collegestudent; Schreibunterricht; Schreibübung; Erziehungswissenschaftliche Fakultät; Teaching method; Lehrmethode; Unterrichtsmethode; Kursprogramm
Abstract	In this article, the author reflects on the flawed writing and composition teaching he received in his early Dartmouth University days. He reports that it took extraordinary classics professors like Don Rosenthal and Jack Zarker to turn around his work, and that these professors contributed to his eventual successful career as a college-level writing teacher. After discussing the problems rampant in the American schools of education, he reports that a 3-step program of professional reform is needed that: (1) dissociates composition teaching from literature teaching, (2) dissociates composition teaching from composition studies and composition theory, and (3) puts writing instruction in the hands of practitioners so that student-writers can be guided toward proficiency. He offers recommendations that, when applied, would create success for practitioners who want to guide student-writers toward the return to excellence of conception and expression. (ERIC).
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Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2017/4/10