Compositionality, Rhetoricity, and Electricity: A Partial History of Some Composition and Rhetoric Studies
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Welch, Kathleen E.
Enculturation
2003

Abstract:

Since 1949, when the Conference on College Composition and Communication was founded in Chicago, the terms composition and rhetoric have been linked in a social-constructionist move that is now ubiquitous in many United Statesian English departments as well as in many free-standing composition-rhetoric programs.