Innis College at U of T has an undergraduate writing, rhetoric and
critical analysis program. Cynthia Messenger is the director.
Regards,
Linda (Schofield)
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From: Jennifer Clary-Lemon <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Monday, October 24, 2005 2:29 pm
Subject: Re: Composition and Canada
> Hi Marc,
>
> As a Canadian studying rhet/comp in an American graduate program,
> I wonder the same thing myself. About once a year, someon on the
> Writing Program Administration listserv asks the same question.
> While I haven't an answer, as far as I know the only definitive
> work on the subject is Roger Graves' Writing Instruction in
> Canadian Universities (Inkshed 1994). Tania S. Smith does a good
> job at explaining some of the intricacies at work in "Recent
> Trends in Writing Instruction and Composition Studies in Canadian
> Universities" http://www.stthomasu.ca/inkshed/cdncomp.htm (her
> works cited offers some rich sources as well)--still, that work is
> dated 1999. I'm not sure that anything more recent has been/is
> being done, but I would love to hear about it on the list, if you
> writers are out there.
>
> Best,
>
> Jennifer Clary-Lemon
> [log in to unmask]
>
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> From: CASLL/Inkshed on behalf of marc christensen
> Sent: Mon 10/24/2005 10:57 AM
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> Subject: Re: Composition and Canada
>
>
>
> > Date: Mon, 24 Oct 2005 08:51:53 -0400
> > From: "Catherine F. Schryer" <[log in to unmask]>
> > Subject: Re: graduate programs in Canada
> >
> > Hello
> > There are not a lot of programs in Canada, and they take a
> > different kind of
> > path then the programs in the States, mostly because of an
> absence
> > of the
> > traditional composition program as it exists in the States.
> >
>
> Can anyone briefly explain how this came to be, or its consequences?
>
> Are there resources available (books, journal articles, white
> papers,
> etc.) which would explain why Comp never took hold here as a
> discipline?
> I'm interested both in historical reasons and today's consequences
> insofar as it seems Lit instructors usually end up teaching comp,
> especially at the college level.
>
> Cheers,
> -marc christensen
> victoria, bc
>
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