ERIC Number: EJ969476
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2012
Pages: 17
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ISSN: ISSN-1534-9322
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What's in a Coauthor?: (Re)Locating Joseph Denney in Composition History
Davis, Ivan
Composition Studies, v40 n1 p78-94 Spr 2012
This article reassesses the Fred Newton Scott and Joseph Villiers Denney collaborative textbook authorship by emphasizing Denney's generally overlooked contributions to that coauthorship and to the field of composition generally. Through an examination of Denney's scholarly work and his personal correspondence with Scott during the period marking their collaborative textbook writing, this article asserts that Denney, like Scott, was an innovative theorist and practitioner in his own right, and that the effectiveness of the Scott-Denney textbooks owes much to Denney's role as coauthor. (Contains 8 notes.)
Descriptors: Textbook Preparation, Writing (Composition), Textbooks, Textbook Content, Textbook Publication, Authors, Teamwork, Cooperative Planning, Writing for Publication, Intellectual History, Letters (Correspondence), Content Analysis, Recognition (Achievement), Writing Strategies, Profiles
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Descriptive
Education Level: Adult Education
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Language: English
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