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050 00 $aLB1576$b.W486 1979
100 1 $aWheeler, Thomas C.
245 14 $aThe great American writing block :$bcauses and cures of the new illiteracy /$cThomas C. Wheeler.
260 0 $aNew York :$bViking Press,$c1979.
300 $a189 p. ;$c23 cm.
505 0 $aThe writing crisis -- The failure of objectivity -- Educations -- Getting over -- Open admissions -- Writing from a culture -- Happy writers -- American literature and writing -- Illiteracy or literacy.
520 $aLanguage in America. What today inhibits the writing of citizens, scholars, and students? Americans, long vigorous and inventive in speech, object to the act of writing. Two out of three abilities expected from education -- reading and writing -- disintegrate as some insidious influence, thought by many to be television, captures succeeding generations of children. Many grade schools and high schools no longer encourage self-expression or sentences. Finding entering freshmen unable to write clearly and coherently, colleges teach grammar and development of thought in a salvage operation called Remedial Writing. But even college graduates come into the job market unable to write, fearful of writing. - p. 1.
650 0 $aLiteracy$zUnited States.
650 0 $aLanguage arts$zUnited States.
776 08 $iOnline version:$aWheeler, Thomas C.$tGreat American writing block.$dNew York : Viking Press, 1979$w(OCoLC)562145686
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