Abstract

Stanley Fish’s contention, in Save the World on Your Own Time, that “composition courses should teach grammar and rhetoric and nothing else” because “content is always the enemy of writing instruction” was provocation enough for a 2009 Modern Language Association (MLA) convention session on the relation between composition and the humanities. The first two panelists, John Schilb and Arabella Lyon, argued that, pace Fish, composition courses should not focus on writing itself, but rather on hu...

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