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- Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1992 23:31:00 EST
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- Subject: RE: High school/college comp courses
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- Rhoda Carroll is right that high school certainly sets the level of expectation
- regarding comp and college writing in general. This is positive inasmuch as
- some students actually do get a pretty good background, learning how to express
- their own feelings, history, and aspirations in words--no mean feat. What I
- don't see them getting, however, is a background in the kind of analysis
- expected in college-level papers (whatever the shortcomings of that genre) or
- in the rhetorical skills which would enable them to argue productively with
- their peers. In other words, what I think we have to teach is not comp but
- rhetoric. Most of my students (I am a John Burt-trained TA) come in able to writ
- e a good narrative but not able to write ABOUT a good narrative.
- George Franklin
- Brandeis
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