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Download full textHennessy, Michael – 1986
Graduate teaching assistants are too often given only "survival training" to prepare them to teach freshman composition. For the following reasons, the focus of teacher preparation in this area should be on rhetorical theory: (1) the study of theory informs the practice of teaching, (2) the study of theory is likely to give the beginner…
Descriptors: Freshman Composition, Graduate Study, Higher Education, Rhetoric
