Constructing Writers: Barrett Wendell's Pedagogy at Harvard

College Composition and Communication Oct 1995

Constructing Writers: Barrett Wendell's Pedagogy at Harvard

Sue Carter Simmons

Abstract

arrett Wendell, a composition teacher at Harvard in the late-19th century, is often associated with product-oriented currenttraditional rhetoric by Berlin, Kitzhaber and other historians of the field. Yet Wendell's relationship to current-traditional rhetoric is not so clear cut. Archival holdings indicate that many pedagogical techniques associated with modern writing pedagogy are ones Wendell used at Harvard one hundred years ago. Wendell, as Katherine Adams and John Adams have said about him, recognized the effectiveness of peer editing and conferencing-he knew that students needed an audience (429). Further, Wendell wrote an unpublished critique of the modes of discourse that predates those of James Kinneavy and James Britton and his associates, which Thomas Newkirk has described in a recent Rhetoric Review article. These

Journal: College Composition and Communication
Published: 1995-10-01
DOI: 10.2307/358709
Open Access: Closed
Topics: multilingual writers

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