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Download full textWinterowd, W. Ross – 1997
Problems of "dialect" exist in the field called "English," which is constituted by both composition and literature. The "ghettoization" of composition has created a hostile underclass, and many compositionists try to "pass" as literarists or at least unconsciously adopt the vocabulary and rhetoric of the…
Descriptors: Academic Discourse, English Departments, English Teachers, Higher Education
Peer reviewedWinterowd, W. Ross – JAC: A Journal of Composition Theory, 2000
Claims the literary critical essay does virtually nothing, as it is printed, read by a small number of literary people, and forgotten. Argues that teaching is doing and claims that the English department establishment either ignores or sneers at the kind of scholarship that tries to solve the problems of teaching literature and composition. (NH)
Descriptors: Critical Theory, Critical Thinking, English Departments, Essays
