2.6 – Expressivism
In about 1964, with the beginning of the Vietnam War, writing instructors had grown tired of reading essays…
2.4 -Writing and High Jumping
The solutions to the changing student body in American colleges after the Civil War greatly affected how you…
2.3 – The Teaching of Writing After the American Civil War
The American Civil War was fought between 1861 and 1865 after the Southern states seceded from the Union.…
2.2 – Communications and the Industrial Revolution
Aristotle’s method of teaching communications was slowly eroded – sometimes by time, sometimes by accident, sometimes on purpose.…
2.1 – Communications in Ancient Greece
Something happened a long time ago that has affected how writing is taught today and therefore how you…
2.5 – The Scissors Kick: The Harvard Method
Harvard had a problem: It had way more applicants than it could take into the school. In 1873,…