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Authoring a Discipline Scholarly Journals and the Post-World War II Emergence of Rhetoric and Composition Authoring a Discipline Scholarly Journals and the Post-World War II Emergence of Rhetoric and Composition Maureen Daly Goggin Arizona State University LAWRENCE ERLBAUM ASSOCIATES, PUBLISHERS 2000 Mahwah, New Jersey London This edition published in the Taylor & Francis e-Library, 2009. “To purchase your own copy of this or any of Taylor & Francis or Routledge’s collection of thousands of eBooks please go to www.eBookstore.tandf.co.uk.” The final camera copy for this work was prepared by the author, and therefore the publisher takes no responsibility for consistency or correctness of typographical style. However, this arrangement helps to make publication of this kind of scholarship possible. Copyright © 2000 by Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Inc. All rights reserved. No part of this book may be repro duced in any form, by photostat, microfilm, retrieval sys tem, or any other means, without prior written permission of the publisher. Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Inc, Publishers 10 Industrial Avenue Mahwah, NJ 07430 Cover design by Kathryn Houghtaling Lacey Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Goggin, Maureen Daly. Authoring a discipline: scholarly and the post-World War II emergence of rhetoric and composition/Maureen Daly Goggin. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 0-8058-3578-4 (cloth: alk. paper) 1. English language—Rhetoric—Study and teaching—History—20th century. 2. English language—Rhetoric—Study and teaching—United States—History. 3. Periodicals. Publishing of—United States—History—20th century. 4. Scholarly publishing—United States—History—20th century. 5. Academ ic writing—Study and teaching—History—20th century. 6. Academic writing—Study and teaching—United States—History. I. Title. PE1405.U6 G54 2000 808'.071'17309045—dc21 00–025012 CIP ISBN 1-4106-0613-9 Master e-book ISBN For Peter CONTENTS Figures and Tables xi Preface xiii Acknowledgments xxvii 1 The Transmogrification of Rhetoric and the Emergence of Composition 1 The Roots of Rhetorical Study 3 The Displacement of Classical Education 3 The Emergence of Modern Disciplines 6 Literacy in the Vernacular 9 Dominant Modern Rhetorics in Low Estate 10 Carving Out Disciplines and Departments 12 Institutional Arrangements of Academic Subjects and Space 12 The Emergence of English Studies 14 A Truncated Rhetoric: Composition 16 Rhetoric Considered but Abandoned 20 Creating Professional Spaces 25 2 Preparing the Ground, 1950–1965 37 Some Forces of Change 38 Limited and Limiting Intellectual Space: College English 39 Opening New Spaces: CCCC and CCC 42 The Founding of CCC and Its Early Editors 43 Symptoms of Struggle: Disciplinary Growing Pains 44 vii viii CONTENTS Between the CCC Covers: Rhetorical Practices 44 Common Topics and Competing Views 48 To Professionalize or Not Professionalize 54 Transition Years in CCC 59 Outside Pressures and Aid 64 3 Sowing the Seeds, 1965–1980 75 Defining Disciplinary Practices: Developing Lines of Inquiry and Building Social Networks 78 Constructing New Directions in Empirical Research: Research in the Teaching of English 79 Constructing New Directions in Rhetoric Scholarship: Rhetoric Society Quarterly 84 Going Against the Tide: Freshman English News 90 Changing With the Times: CCC and CE 93 Naming Interests: Editorial Policies and Guidelines in CCC 93 Expanding the Scope: Editorial Policies and Guidelines in CE 97 Sprouting Disciplinary Buds 101 4 Fruits of the Garden, 1980–1990 111 On the Cusp of Change: Journal of Advanced Composition 116 Meeting New Demands in Rhetoric and Composition 121 Pushing at the Margins: Pre/Text 121 Making Room for Rhetoric: Rhetoric Review 126 Extending the Boundaries: Written Communication 128 Establishing Boundaries and Blurring Distinctions: FEN, RSQ, RTE, CCC, and CE 131 Mixed Blossoms in One Garden 136 5 The Gardeners: Forty Years of Editors of and Contributors to the Journals 145 Editors: Disciplinary Values and Graduate Education 146 Contributors: Institutional, Political, and Social Dimensions 154 Geographical Distribution of Contributors 154 CONTENTS ix Institutional Affiliation of Contributors 158 Departmental Affiliation of Contributors 163 Academic Rank of Contributors 165 Gender of Contributors 167 Scholarly Productivity: Developing a Critical Mass 172 Discipliniographers and a Question of Discipline 174 6 A Pot-Bound Garden: Some Thoughts on the Present State and Future Directions of Rhetoric and Composition 183 The Struggle 185 On Being Composed 188 A Clash of Two Cultures 190 Bridging the Gap 190 Breaking Our Bonds 194 Defining Ourselves: Marketing Myopia 196 Transplanting Container-Grown Plants 198 Harvesting the Garden 201 Appendix A: Tables of Editors and Institutional Affiliations for Each Journal 209 Appendix B: CCCC Chairs, 1949–2000 213 Works Cited 215 Author Index 247 Subject Index 253
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