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James J. Murphy is Professor Emeritus in the Department of English and the Department of Communication at the University of California, Davis.
This newly revised 30th Anniversary edition provides a robust introduction to the history of writing instruction in the West from Ancient Greece to the present-day United States, ideal for undergraduate and graduate courses in writing studies, rhetoric and composition, and the history of education.
1. Ancient Greek Writing Instruction and its Oral Antecedents 2. Roman Writing Instruction as Described by Quintilian 3. Writing Instruction from Late Antiquity to the Twelfth Century 4. Writing Instruction in Late Medieval Europe 5. Reading, Writing, and Rhetoric in the Renaissance 6. Continuity and Change in Writing Instruction in Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Great Britain 7. "Available Means" for Rhetorical Instruction: "Broadening Perspectives" on Rhetorical Education Prior to 1900 8. Writing Instruction in U.S. Colleges and Schools: The Twentieth Century and the New Millennium