Review – Rereading America: Cultural Contexts for Critical Thinking and Writing by Lisa Stahl
A lot has changed in the last 25 years.  In 1976, Richard Ohmann reviewed 14 textbooks typical of those used for teaching freshman composition (as referenced in Lester Faigley’s Fragments of Rationality: Postmodernity and the Subject of Composition).   Ohmann found these textbooks instructed students exclusively on writing skills and techniques to the exclusion of any analysis of culture.  He […]