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Composition studies (also referred to as composition and rhetoric, rhetoric and composition, writing studies, or simply composition) is the professional field of writing, research, and instruction,[1] focusing especially on writing at the college level in the United States.[2]
In most US and some Canadian colleges and universities, undergraduates take freshman or higher-level composition courses. To support the effective administration of these courses, there are developments of basic and applied research on the acquisition of writing skills, and an understanding of the history of the uses and transformation of writing systems and writing technologies (among many other subareas of research), over 70 American universities offer doctoral study in rhetoric and composition.[3] These programs of study usually include composition pedagogical theory, linguistics, professional and technical communication, qualitative and quantitative research methods, the history of rhetoric, as well as the influence of different writing conventions and genres on writers' composing processes more generally.[4]
Composition scholars also publish in the fields of teaching English as a second or foreign language (TESOL) or second language writing, writing centers, and new literacies.
- ^ Heilker, Paul and Peter Vandenberg (2015). "Introduction". Keywords in Writing Studies, Utah State UP, xi-xviii.
- ^ Nystrand, Martin; Greene, Stuart; Wiemelt, Jeffrey (July 1993). "Where Did Composition Studies Come From? An Intellectual History". Written Communication. 10 (3): 267–333. doi:10.1177/0741088393010003001. S2CID 143646266.
- ^ "Members". The Consortium of Doctoral Programs in Rhetoric and Composition. October 19, 2014. Archived from the original on Oct 4, 2023.
- ^ "Genre Across Borders (GXB) | an international, interdisciplinary network of researchers, theories, and resources". genreacrossborders.org. Archived from the original on Dec 19, 2023.