Wayne Rebhorn Letter to Lieb and King, 9 February 1979
Item
Title
Wayne Rebhorn Letter to Lieb and King, 9 February 1979
Type
Letter
Creator
Wayne Rebhorn
Date
9 February 1979
Description
Wayne Reborn writes to two Deans to report on his study of three College of Liberal Arts departments analogous to English (History, Linguistics, and Philosophy).
At the lower-division, Rebhorn says he finds little writing assigned in these departments and most of it graded by TAs. By contrast English lower-division courses assign a lot of writing, and professors grade the papers.
At the upper-division, he finds more writing assigned, but not nearly as much as is typical in an English upper-division class.
Rebhorn also stresses that in the English department, instructors not only assign writing, but they also teach it, responding substantively to student work, clarity of exposition, rhetorical strategy, and requiring revision.
Appended is a statistical breakdown of Rebhorn’s findings.
At the lower-division, Rebhorn says he finds little writing assigned in these departments and most of it graded by TAs. By contrast English lower-division courses assign a lot of writing, and professors grade the papers.
At the upper-division, he finds more writing assigned, but not nearly as much as is typical in an English upper-division class.
Rebhorn also stresses that in the English department, instructors not only assign writing, but they also teach it, responding substantively to student work, clarity of exposition, rhetorical strategy, and requiring revision.
Appended is a statistical breakdown of Rebhorn’s findings.