Shake

Cultural Diversity in Composition Pedagogy

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    Harvard sets canon for entering freshmen

    -White male authors privileged
    -Canon of literature as foundation for writing instruction set by a spectific institution
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    Progressive Education in Twentieth-Century

    -Inclusion of working class in the university
    -Pushback against list of works
    -Incorporating other texts in to teaching composition
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    Conference on College Composition and Communication

    -modern discipline of compostion studies
    -reconsideration of writing as separate from literary criticism
    -formation of journal College Composition and Communication in 1950
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    Increased lingual diversity

    -Inclusion of other languages in composition studies
    -Emergence of freewriting: mingle other languages