The Review of Higher Education
Volume 20, Number 3, Spring 1997
E-ISSN: 1090-7009 Print ISSN: 0162-5748
DOI: 10.1353/rhe.1997.0005
Spear, Karen I.
Controversy and Consensus in Freshman Writing: An Overview of the Field
The Review of Higher Education - Volume 20, Number 3, Spring 1997, pp. 319-344
The Johns Hopkins University Press
Freshman writing programs, though universally required, are
expensive, are difficult to staff, often fail to produce hoped-for
improvements, and often operate in a theoretical vacuum filled by
pedagogical lore and unexamined assumptions. To help university
policy-makers and curriculum planners make informed decisions
about writing programs, this essay sketches the origins of
freshman writing and analyzes current theories of rhetoric and
points of consensus in the scholarship.
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