Rhetoric Review Mar 1997

Composing a discipline: The role of scholarly journals in the disciplinary emergence of rhetoric and composition since 1950

Maureen Daly Goggin Arizona State University

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(1997). Composing a discipline: The role of scholarly journals in the disciplinary emergence of rhetoric and composition since 1950. Rhetoric Review: Vol. 15, No. 2, pp. 322-348.

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Rhetoric Review
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1997-03-01
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10.1080/07350199709359222
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