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A Teacher's Introduction to Composition in the Rhetorical Tradition
Book by Winterowd, W. Ross, Blum, Jack
130 pages, Paperback
First published October 1, 1994
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July 12, 2008
This puppy's a nice little intro to the development of composition as we know it today. It starts with Aristotle and Plato (where else?), and then traces the results of their theoretical divergence, and those they respectively influenced. Winterowd takes us all the way into the contemporary university English department where rhetorical composition is housed and where solipsistic literary creativity and study is SO much more important than the more "practical" modes of rhetoric. He remains seemingly objective throughout, although I still ended up feeling like I needed to choose a side.
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