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What Is English? by Peter Elbow (1990, Hardcover)

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Product Identifiers

PublisherModern Language Association of America

ISBN-100873523814

ISBN-139780873523813

eBay Product ID (ePID)1144639

Product Key Features

Number of Pages271 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication NameWhat Is English?

Publication Year1990

SubjectTeaching Methods & Materials / Language Arts, Linguistics / General

TypeTextbook

AuthorPeter Elbow

Subject AreaLanguage Arts & Disciplines, Education

FormatHardcover

Dimensions

Item Height0.8 in

Item Weight19.4 Oz

Item Length9.1 in

Item Width6.1 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional

LCCN90-044931

Dewey Edition20

Grade FromCollege Graduate Student

Dewey Decimal420/.7/073

SynopsisWhat Is English? is Peter Elbow's challenging and very personal "picture of a profession that cannot define what it is." Written in a lively and accessible style, What Is English? contains Elbow's reflections on the 1987 English Coalition Conference and on its implications for the profession as a whole. Elbow identifies and tackles the major areas addressed by the conference: the question of what "English" means the place of theory in reading and writing the conflict between those who teach literature and those who teach writing the controversies surrounding the canon the nation's increasing preoccupation with assessment To include the voices of others who attended the conference, the book contains "interludes"-short pieces between chapters-in which teachers from all levels of instruction express their feelings and describe their experiences., This is Peter Elbow's challenging and very personal "picture of a profession that cannot define what it is." Written in a lively and accessible style, What Is English? contains Elbow's reflections on the 1987 English Coalition Conference and on its implications for the profession as a whole. Elbow identifies and tackles the major areas addressed by the conference.

LC Classification NumberPE1068.U5E47 1990