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Babb, Jacob Sebastian – ProQuest LLC, 2013
This dissertation examines how nomenclature and the act of naming shapes disciplinary identities for scholars and teachers of rhetoric and composition. The discipline is named differently by many of its members, sometimes called "composition studies," "writing studies," "composition and rhetoric," "rhetorical…
Descriptors: Intellectual Disciplines, Rhetoric, Writing (Composition), Epistemology
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Guinn, Dorothy Margaret – JAC: A Journal of Composition Theory, 1998
Suggests that W. Ross Winterowd's most significant and influential contribution to the field of rhetoric and composition is the Rhetoric-Linguistics-Literature Program (RLL), started in 1972 as a program in the Department of English at the University of Southern California. Presents a history of the program, noting its "virtual demise"…
Descriptors: Educational History, English Departments, English Instruction, Graduate Study