Product Description: “To understand the ways students learn to write, we must go beyond the small and all too often marginalized component of the curriculum that treats writing explicitly and look at the broader, though largely tacit traditions students encounter in the whole curriculum,” explains David R...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Janet Eldred and Peter Mortensen examine the development of women’s writing in the decades between the American Revolution and the Civil War, and how women imagined using their education to further the civic aims of an idealistic new nation.

Product Description: Lucille M. Schultz's The Young Composers: Composition's Beginnings in Nineteenth-Century Schools is the first full-length history of school-based writing instruction. Schultz demonstrates that writing instruction in nineteenth-century American schools is much more important in the overall history of writing instruction than we have previously assumed...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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Product Description: By the end of the nineteenth century, rhetoric had not yet been established as a legitimate discipline. Fred Newton Scott (1860-1931) spent his life broadening the scope of rhetoric studies through his imaginative, interdisciplinary research...read more

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Product Description: Composition-Rhetoric is a story of the people who have studied and taught composition in American colleges since the early nineteenth century. It shows where many of the practices and assumptions about writing that today's teachers use come from, and it translates what our theories and techniques of teaching have said over time about our attitudes toward students, language, and life...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Book by Adams, Katherine H.

Eight teachers describe how they help students learn to write and think more effectively, and share their personal insights on writing.