Symposium: A Short History of Writing Instruction from Ancient Greece to Modern America, (2nd ed.)

Author(s):

James J. Murphy

Publication History:

The Writing Instructor, September 2001

Peroration by David Blakesley . . .

2001 witnessed the second edition of this already classic work. In celebration of this new edition and TWI's digital debut, we present here a symposium—begun before a packed house at the Conference on College Composition and Communication in Denver in March 2001—on what the writers of each chapter of this new edition learned as they updated chapters from the first edition. In some cases, new authors have joined the effort. Everyone involved, like most in TWI's audience, recognizes that at the very least the future of writing instruction rests on its rich and varied past, ranging from the texts of antiquity to the postmodern, digitized present, and onward to our possible future histories.

A Short History of Writing Instruction from Ancient Greece to Modern America, 2nd Edition. Ed. James J. Murphy. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 2001. ISBN: 1-880393-30-1.344 pages. $34.50.

In the Table of Contents below, the author's chapter title is highlighted. Clicking on that title will bring you to each's reflection on how the our possible future histories have written themselves in the years since the first edition of A Short History of Writing Instruction first appeared.

Chapter Number	Introduction
I	Ancient Greek Writing Instruction [1] Richard Leo Enos
II	The Key Role of Habit in Roman Writing Instruction [2] James J. Murphy
III	Writing Instruction from Late Antiquity to the Twelfth Century [3] Carol Dana Lanham
IV	The Teaching of Poetic Composition in the Later Middle Ages [4] Marjorie Curry Woods
V	Rhetoric and Writing in the Renaissance [5] Don Paul Abbott
VI	Writing Instruction in Great Britain: the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries [6] Linda Ferreira-Buckley and Winifred Bryan Homer
VII	From Rhetoric to Composition: The Teaching of Writing in America to 1900 [7] Elizabethada A. Wright and S. Michael Halloran
VIII	A Century of Writing Instruction in School and College English [8] Catherine L. Hobbs and James A. Berlin
	Epilogue: Observations on Some Possible Future Histories Appendix: Glossary of Key Terms Contributors Index

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Provenance:

Citation Format: Blakesley, David. Peroration. "Symposium on The Short History of Writing Instruction from Ancient Greece to Modern America, (2nd Edition). The Writing Instructor. 2001. http://www.writinginstructor.com/reflections/shorthistory.html [9] (Date Accessed).