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Peer reviewedLloyd-Jones, Richard – College English, 1978
Presents rhetorical invention as the process of finding the best available means of persuasion, not as generating the chaos upon which to make order. (DD)
Descriptors: Higher Education, Persuasive Discourse, Productive Thinking, Rhetoric
Peer reviewedAronowitz, Stanley – College English, 1977
Urges that college composition students' critical thinking skills be refined so that they may analyze and reject the influence of mass culture. (DD)
Descriptors: American Culture, College Freshmen, Critical Thinking, English Instruction
Download full textFrye, Northrop – College English, 1964
The central activity of literary criticism, the understanding of literature, is related to the process of establishing a context for the works of literature being studied. Choosing not to discuss the factual elements of literary criticism, the author clarifies and concentrates on the "lower" and "upper" limits of criticism. While the "lower" limit…
Descriptors: Critical Reading, Educational Objectives, Educational Philosophy, English Instruction
