In this article, I test claims made about rhetorical education for women in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries by examining Florida State College for Women (FSCW), one of eight public women's colleges in the South. I recover the voices of instructors and students by looking both at the interweaving strands of literature, journalism,…

Discusses the life and work of Marian Wharton, a socialist and feminist who helped shape the English curriculum at the People's College in Fort Scott, Kansas. Develops a rich, historical-situated conception of how the rhetorical activities of women and other marginalized people are a complex interweaving of alliance and antagonism, of free choice…

Focuses on growth and development of English-as-a-Second-Language (ESL) students at the undergraduate level between 1941 and 1966. Discusses developments and progress made in the profession of teaching ESL students. Shows how teaching ESL in this period inadvertently contributed to the creation of the disciplinary division of labor that continues…

The purpose of the Freshmen Composition course should be to provide students opportunities to use the skills their previous English courses have not released. (JH)

English teachers must come to understand that the essence of language is creation, not communication. (JH)

English departments need to develop an honest diversity of writing programs, identifying the unique values of different approaches. (JH)

Student conferences may be counterproductive unless the teacher knows enough about a student to get through to him. (JH)

A useful legal writing course can be offered by any English instructor who understands the elements of persuasive prose. (JH)

Several ways of using films to generate student papers are discussed. (JH)