This article describes the rationale and efficacy of a graduate-level teaching module providing loosely structured practice with real archives. Introducing early career scholars to archival methods changed their beliefs about knowledge, research, teaching, and their discipline(s). This case study suggests that archives can be productive training…

Describes a method of teaching composition that focuses on rhetorical strategies in fiction, poetry, drama, and the essay, and by considering how these strategies are used effectively to achieve particular effects. (TO)

Describes how an approach, limited to the reading and teaching of lyric poems, can serve as a means of opening up the world of interpretive reading to marginal readers. (DD)

I argue that examining two collections of essays designed for the preparation of new writing teachers and published twenty years apart provides some important clues to what has occurred to composition studies in the interval. Building on the framework I established in two previous CCC articles, I argue that composition studies has become a less…

Contends that symbol-hunting is a more effective way of studying poetry than close reading. (DD)

Explores the discourse modes put forth in Bain's nineteenth century college textbook "English Composition and Rhetoric." Discusses his rationale for shifting from the previous belletristic schemes to the forms of description, narration, exposition, persuasion, and poetry. (HTH)

Acknowledging that the tradition of school rhetoric in the nineteenth century was narrow and restrictive, refutes the charge that nineteenth century rhetoricians lacked originality. (HTH)

Argues that teachers of rhetoric and teachers of literary studies have many interests in common and that these common interests should be cultivated. Offers four possible lines of inquiry for bringing rhetoric and literary study together. (RL)

Explores some features of early psychology that are implicit in early methods of writing instruction. Includes varieties of early psychology, the Scottish Commonsense philosophy, Alexander Bain's associationist psychology, William James's functionalist psychology, and composition teaching after 1900. (HTH)

Any teacher can teach black literature if he is willing to give it the same respect he gives white writing. (JH)