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However, the field of composition studies soon became paired with the field of rhetoric as the modern university developed, because scholars began to realize that elements of rhetoric and not "systematic grammatical study" were necessary to improve writing and composition abilities. [3] While rhetoric traditionally concerned matters related to ...
Composition studies (also referred to as composition and rhetoric, rhetoric and composition, writing studies, or simply composition) is the professional field of writing, research, and instruction, [1] focusing especially on writing at the college level in the United States.
Throughout his tenure, Winterowd authored and edited numerous influential textbooks on composition and rhetoric, which were widely adopted in academic institutions. [ 9 ] Beyond his academic pursuits, Winterowd led writing workshops for senior citizens, culminating in the publication of Senior Citizens Writing: A Workshop and Anthology (2007).
James Louis Kinneavy (26 June 1920 – 10 August 1999) was an American scholar and teacher of rhetoric and composition. Since the publication of his best-known work, A Theory of Discourse, he has been widely considered “one of America's major rhetorical theorists.” [1] The book's main contribution to the field of contemporary discourse is the case Kinneavy made for the importance of ...
Jacqueline Jones Royster is an American academic, author, and scholar of rhetoric, literacy, and cultural studies. She is a professor at the Georgia Institute of Technology and the former Dean of the Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts.
Visual rhetoric or “visual modes of representation” has been present in composition (college writing) courses for decades but only as a complementary component “for writing assignments and instructions” since it was considered as “a less sophisticated, less precise mode of conveying semiotic content than written language.” [3] Nevertheless, many experts in composition studies ...
The cultural studies theory of composition (hereafter referred to as "cultural studies") is a field of composition studies that examines both writing as an artifact of culture and the contexts of writing situations. It also examines what happens to writing when cultures come into contact with each other, situations often referred to as "contact ...
George Alexander Kennedy was born in Hartford, Connecticut on November 26, 1928. He received his Ph.D. in classics from Harvard University in 1954 with a dissertation entitled "Prolegomena and Commentary to Quintilian VIII (PR. & 1-3)".