College Composition and Communication Jun 2005

Summary & Critique: Composition at the Turn of the Twenty-First Century

Richard Fulkerson

Abstract

I argue that examining two collections of essays designed for the preparation of new writing teachers and published twenty years apart provides some important clues to what has occurred to composition studies in the interval. Building on the framework I established in two previous CCC articles, I argue that composition studies has become a less unified and more contentious discipline early in the twenty-first century than it had appeared to be around 1990. The present article specifically addresses the rise of what I call critical/cultural studies, the quiet expansion of expressive approaches to teaching writing, and the split of rhetorical approaches into three: argumentation, genre analysis, and preparation for “the” academic discourse community.

Journal
College Composition and Communication
Published
2005-06-01
DOI
10.58680/ccc20054826
Open Access
Closed
Topics
writing pedagogy discourse analysis multimodality argument

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