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“The Battles of Texas offers a compelling, incisive, and well-written historical account of debates about the place of writing instruction in the University of Texas at Austin curriculum. Kreuter and Longaker’s detailed analysis of events that shaped a nationally prominent writing program offers a unique perspective on the history of writing studies and thoughtful insights about history’s ongoing presence in contemporary developments in the field.” —Lois P. Agnew, coeditor of After Plato: Rhetoric, Ethics, and the Teaching of Writing “Kreuter and Longaker’s book is a keen microhistory that showcases a heretofore under-examined case study in the disciplinary histories of Rhetoric and Composition Studies: the UT writing program. The authors’ meticulous examination is situated in the context of twentieth-century higher education politics, including ongoing debates about who should teach writing and what writing pedagogy itself should entail. Their reader-centered approach to navigating multiple intersecting stories and their associated players makes the book a must-read.” —Kelly A. Ritter, author of Reframing the Subject: Postwar Instructional Film and Class-Conscious Literacies

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Nate Kreuter is Associate Professor of English and Director of First-Year Writing at the University of Georgia. He is the coeditor of Rhetoric and Guns. Mark Garrett Longaker is Professor of Rhetoric and Writing, English, Communication Studies, and European Studies at the University of Texas at Austin. His most recent book is Rhetorical Style and Bourgeois Virtue, also published by Penn State University Press.

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