College Composition: Initiation into the Academic Discourse Community

Composition studies has become established as an academic discipline. Over the past null college writing programs have expanded tremendously, and scholarly attention to writing theory and pedagogy has also grown. Although composition studies are not yet organized under a disciplinary paradigm, some dominant trends are embodied in two recent textbooks, Four Worlds of Writing and Writing in the Arts and Sciences. The authors of Four Worlds, Lauer,...