Trimbur contributes to composition book
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Worcester Polytechnic Institute English Professor John Trimbur is the author of "Writing Instruction and the Politics of Professionalization." The essay appears in Composition in the 21st Century: Crisis and Change. The book, which has its origins in a national conference of the same name, contains 16 position papers by distinguished scholars and researchers who discuss composition and rhetoric from a variety of contemporary perspectives: historical, social, cultural, political, intellectual, economic, structural, administrative and developmental.
Composition in the 21st Century, published by Southern Illinois University Press, is edited by Lynn Z. Bloom of the University of Connecticut, Donald A. Daiker of Miami University and Edward M. White of California State University, San Bernadino. "The solutions [offered in the text] are applicable to pedagogy, research, graduate training of composition teachers, academic administration and public and social policy," say the editors. "In a very real sense [it] is the only book to offer a map to the future of composition."
