A shared history : writing in the high school, college, and university, 1856-1886 /
Amy J. Lueck
- Carbondale : Southern Illinois University Press, (c)2020.
- 1 online resource (xx, 248 pages)
- Writing Research, Pedagogy, and Policy Ser. .
Introduction : high schools, higher learning, and our histories -- The idea(l) of the high school -- A polished, practical, or profound education : collegiate curricula in the first ten years -- Practical rhetoric and progressive pedagogies in the high schools -- The "absurd effort" : the university idea and the changing high school -- "Just on the border of the intellectual world" : Central Colored High School -- Inventing the high school, inventing composition -- Conclusion : blurring the boundaries; a history for writing across higher schooling
"The author demonstrates that public high schools were a vital site for advanced rhetoric and writing instruction in the United States in the nineteenth century. She notes their long-neglected role in the history of composition studies and provides a shared history for secondary and college and university teachers"--
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English language--Rhetoric--Study and teaching--History--United States--19th century.