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Drawing on a vast array of materials--syllabi, program descriptions, internal publications, and interviews--from three prominent midwestern universities, Masters identifies six terms that constitute core concepts underlying freshman English. By following Masters's analysis . . . we can see the powerfully embedded roots of college composition as we know it today.-- ""David Jolliffe, DePaul University"" Masters weaves together interpretations of archival and critical sources to construct a vivid portrait of postwar composition teaching as a discursive practice that is paradoxically both utilitarian and utopian.-- ""Carol Severino, University of Iowa"" Masters's history reveals for the first time the concrete practices of this uniquely American phenomenon, first-year composition, by examining three very different institutions during a crucial period in American higher education. But he does much more. . . . His conclusions reveal and challenge the deepest assumptions about the course--and our system of education.-- ""David Russell, Iowa State University"" ""Practicing Writing is a richly detailed history of the freshman English course as taught in three different types of Midwestern universities between 1947 and the late 1950s. . . . Through his painstaking examination of everyday artifacts such as student essays, syllabi, departmental and university publications, professors' papers and interviews, Masters narrates the story of how these universities, which served as metonyms for three different approaches to higher education, attempted to integrate a new generation of college students into the literacies valued by the academy and by educated society.""-- ""Composition Studies"" This study provides valuable insights into a more comprehensive understanding of a 'marginal' area of higher education. Such an analysis applied to other nondiscipline areas of study would be of great benefit not only to academia but higher education as well.-- ""Choice""

Drawing on a vast array of materials--syllabi, program descriptions, internal publications, and interviews--from three prominent midwestern universities, Masters identifies six terms that constitute core concepts underlying freshman English. By following Masters's analysis . . . we can see the powerfully embedded roots of college composition as we know it today. <br> --David Jolliffe, DePaul University

"""Drawing on a vast array of materials--syllabi, program descriptions, internal publications, and interviews--from three prominent midwestern universities, Masters identifies six terms that constitute core concepts underlying freshman English. By following Masters's analysis . . . we can see the powerfully embedded roots of college composition as we know it today."" --David Jolliffe, DePaul University"" ""Masters's history reveals for the first time the concrete practices of this uniquely American phenomenon, first-year composition, by examining three very different institutions during a crucial period in American higher education. But he does much more. . . . His conclusions reveal and challenge the deepest assumptions about the course-and our system of education."" --David Russell, Iowa State University"" ""Masters weaves together interpretations of archival and critical sources to construct a vivid portrait of postwar composition teaching as a discursive practice that is paradoxically both utilitarian and utopian."" --Carol Severino, University of Iowa"

Drawing on a vast array of materials--syllabi, program descriptions, internal publications, and interviews--from three prominent midwestern universities, Masters identifies six terms that constitute core concepts underlying freshman English. By following Masters's analysis . . . we can see the powerfully embedded roots of college composition as we know it today. --David Jolliffe, DePaul University

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Thomas M. Masters, an instructor in the School of Education at DePaul University, has led local educators' associations, administered a writing center, developed interdisciplinary programs, and taught composition, literature, speech, and media studies.

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