Tough, Sweet, and Stuffy: An Essay on Modern American Prose Styles

“For this additional burden we had no additional help”: First-year composition and writing program administration at Iowa State from 1869 to 1939

“…Varnum (1996) 55). Baird chose his own way, for better or worse, and those compositionists he influenced saw him as a revolutionary (Coles, 1978;Gibson, 1966Gibson, , 1985Sale, 1969). Varnum (1992aVarnum ( , 1996 What historians can learn from the transition from Genung to Baird is that factors such as higher education influences, professionalization in the field, and pedagogical innovations in textbooks and journals can fail to explain a composition program, especially one run by a headstrong WPA.…”