Composition Forum

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October 2025

  1. “The New Illiteracy”: “Why Johnny Can’t Write” at 50
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    Carl Schlachte The picture shows a young white man, maybe eighteen years old, his face wracked with confusion or frustration, head resting on a fist. The background, with rows of out-of-focus books, suggests he is in a library. Thick brown hair sweeps across the man’s head in the style of the time. He is clean-shaven, […]

April 2025

  1. Style and Substance: Templates for Academic Writing as Frames for Invention
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    Emily Barrow DeJeu Abstract While templates for academic writing, like those offered in the popular textbook They Say/I Say, have been embraced by some, others still question the extent to which an emphasis on form comes at the expense of substance. But ancient rhetoricians offer a theory of rhetoric that unites style and substance, and […]