Slaves, Serfs, or Colleagues. Who Shall Teach College Composition?
Abstract
I did my graduate work, composition was taught almost exclusively by slaves. With the exception of a few wives of important faculty and a small number of supervisory personnel, graduate teaching assistants instructed the 200odd sections of freshman composition offered each year. Southern Illinois University has thus opted for one of the two common solutions to the problem of college composition. It utilizes vaguely supervised graduate teaching assistants to instruct the staggering number of students who, each year, enroll in the freshman composition sequence. It goes almost without saying that the freshman composition sequence has virtually no repute within the English department. The Director of Composition is judged effective and the graduate teaching assistants are regarded as a good crop on the basis of the decibel level of student
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- College Composition and Communication
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- 1971-12-01
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- 10.2307/356205
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