1873: Harvard first added an English composition requirement to the list of admission standards
1914: Speech teachers left English departments and “has walked our of the NCTE to form their own organization” (63)
1940s: Some universities “attempt[ed] to reintegrate speaking and writing (and listening and reading)” (63). While they weren’t completely successful, this marked “the scholarly rapprochement between Rhetoric and Composition” (63).
1949: Conference on College Composition and Communication was constituted
1958: Basic Issues conference that establish “that English must be regarded as a ‘fundamental liberal disciple’” (10). This movement “was guided by the ‘tripod’ metaphor for English studies – language, literature, and composition” (10).
1958: The National Defense Education Act of 1958 provided money for educational reforms; originally excluded English.
1961: NCTE’s The National Interest and the Teaching of English (response to English’s exclusion in the NDEA
1961: Congress approved an extension of the Cooperative Research Program to include English (called Project English)
1963*: Albert Kitzhaber pushes composition teachers to establish Composition as a discipline in his CCCC address
1964: NDEA expanded to include English
1967: Initiation of NCTE’s Research in the Teaching of English
1971**: Emig’s The Composing Processes of Twelfth Graders is published
*North believes that this is the birth of modern Composition as a discipline.
** North says Emig’s work is “arguably the most influential piece of Research work” (136).
1914: Speech teachers left English departments and “has walked our of the NCTE to form their own organization” (63)
1940s: Some universities “attempt[ed] to reintegrate speaking and writing (and listening and reading)” (63). While they weren’t completely successful, this marked “the scholarly rapprochement between Rhetoric and Composition” (63).
1949: Conference on College Composition and Communication was constituted
1958: Basic Issues conference that establish “that English must be regarded as a ‘fundamental liberal disciple’” (10). This movement “was guided by the ‘tripod’ metaphor for English studies – language, literature, and composition” (10).
1958: The National Defense Education Act of 1958 provided money for educational reforms; originally excluded English.
1961: NCTE’s The National Interest and the Teaching of English (response to English’s exclusion in the NDEA
1961: Congress approved an extension of the Cooperative Research Program to include English (called Project English)
1963*: Albert Kitzhaber pushes composition teachers to establish Composition as a discipline in his CCCC address
1964: NDEA expanded to include English
1967: Initiation of NCTE’s Research in the Teaching of English
1971**: Emig’s The Composing Processes of Twelfth Graders is published
*North believes that this is the birth of modern Composition as a discipline.
** North says Emig’s work is “arguably the most influential piece of Research work” (136).