Reviews what has been learned and accomplished by teachers of writing during the nearly 30 years since the Conference on College Composition and Communication was founded. (DD)

Examines the implications of identifying usage as a question of rhetoric rather than grammar, linguistics, or morality. (DD)

Argues that, like making stew, there is more than one sequential writing process, and that while one cannot discern the process by examining the product, the product (or purpose) cannot help but shape the processes. (HTH)

Suggestions on improving the college compsotition course, primarily by making it genuinely rhetorical.'' (Author/SP)

The basic issues of the "new" rhetoric include (1) the ways in which contemporary rhetoric is "new", (2) some of the problems facing contemporary rhetoric, and (3) the relation of rhetoric to the teaching of English. Two factors contributing to the concept of a "new" discipline are a revival of interest in classical rhetoric and the development of…