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Innis College at U of T has an undergraduate writing, rhetoric and 
critical analysis program.  Cynthia Messenger is the director.

Regards,
Linda (Schofield)

----- Original Message -----
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] 
> 
> ________________________________ 
> 
> From: CASLL/Inkshed on behalf of marc christensen 
> Sent: Mon 10/24/2005 10:57 AM 
> To: [log in to unmask] 
> 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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