Ann E. Berthoff
Ann E. Berthoff (February 13, 1924 – November 26, 2022) was a scholar of composition who promoted the study of I.A. Richards and Paulo Freire and the value of their work for writing studies. Biography Ann Rhys Evans was born in New York. From 1941 to 1943 she attended Birmingham-Southern College, where she wrote for the student newspaper ''The Quad.'' She completed her undergraduate studies at Cornell College in 1945, and obtained her master's degree from Radcliffe College in 1948. She began working as an English instructor at Bradford Junior College the same year. In 1949, she married Warner Berthoff, a scholar of American Renaissance literature. From 1951 to 1962, Berthoff taught at Bryn Mawr College. In 1965, she taught at both Swarthmore College and Haverford College. She began as a lecturer at the University of Massachusetts Boston in 1969, where she was promoted to associate professor in 1970 and full professor in 1978. Berthoff led a National Endowment for the Humanit ...
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Composition Studies
Composition studies (also referred to as composition and rhetoric, rhetoric and composition, writing studies, or simply composition) is the professional field of writing, research, and instruction, focusing especially on writing at the college level in the United States. The flagship national organization for this field is the Conference on College Composition and Communication. In most US and some Canadian colleges and universities, undergraduates take freshman or higher-level composition courses. To support the effective administration of these courses, the development of basic and applied research on the acquisition of writing skills, and an und