BOOK COVER; TITLE; COPYRIGHT; CONTENTS; FlGURES AND TABLES; PREFACE; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; CHAPTER 1 THE TRANSMOGRIFICATION OF RHETORIC AND THE EMERGENCE OF COMPOSITION; CHAPTER 2 PREPARING THE GROUND, 1950-1965; CHAPTER 3 SOWING THE SEEDS, 1965-1980; CHAPTER 4 FRUITS OF THE GARDEN, 1980-1990; CHAPTER 5 The Gardeners: Forty Years of Editors of and Contributors to the Journals; CHAPTER 6 A Pot-Bound Garden: Some Thoughts on the Present State and Future Directions of Rhetoric and Composition; APPENDIX A TABLES OF EDITORS AND INSTITUTIONAL AFFILIATIONS FOR EACH JOURNAL
APPENDIX B CCCC CHAIRS, 1949-2000WORKS CITED; AUTHOR INDEX; SUBJECT INDEX
Summary
Authoring a Discipline traces the post-World War II emergence of rhetoric and composition as a discipline within departments of English in institutions of higher education in the United States. Goggin brings to light both the evolution of this disc