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
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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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