Assignment for Monday, December 8

Fri, 12/05/2008 - 08:24 — Professor Rose

12/8 Political Theories and Composition 4: Institutional Politics and Labor Issues (continued)

Connors, Robert J. “The New Abolitionism: Toward a Historical Background.” In Lynn Z. Bloom, Donald A. Daiker, and Edward M. White, eds. Composition in the Twenty-first Century. Carbondale: SIUP, 1996, 47-63.

Crowley, Sharon. “A Personal Essay on Freshman English,” in Composition in the University: Historical and Polemical Essays. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh P, 1998, 228-249.

 

Be prepared to discuss:

 

Connors and Crowley both make a point of the importance of considerations of professional self-interest in developing arguments for and against abolition of required composition. Would you consider becoming a “New Abolitionist”? What would be the arguments for and against?