Explores Gertrude Buck's approach to argumentation demonstrating the intellectual and social significance of her work and showing how she introduced a democratic ethics encouraging Vassar women to take a more active and public role in society. Focuses on one of Buck's instruments of teaching writing, "A Course in Argumentative Writing"…

Considering the rhetorical strategies four 19th-century black women employed to address various audiences can be helpful in the continuing struggle to find effective means of teaching writing to college students. These four women used a variety of strategies to reach audiences which were, to one degree or another, hostile to them because of their…

One of the most difficult problems of modern school practice is how to prevent overcrowding the curriculum, breaking up the school day into small fragments of time devoted to disconnected tasks, and dissipating the energies of the children to such an extent that the process of education is hindered rather than helped by the attempts to enrich and…