David Bartholomae | Academic Influence

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PhD English Rutgers University
Masters English Rutgers University

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Why Is David Bartholomae Influential?

According to Wikipedia, David John Bartholomae was an American scholar in composition studies. He received his PhD from Rutgers University in 1975 and was a Professor of English and former Chair of the English Department at the University of Pittsburgh. His primary research interests are in composition, literacy, and pedagogy, and his work engages scholarship in rhetoric and in American literature/American Studies. His articles and essays have appeared in publications such as PMLA, Critical Quarterly, and College Composition and Communication.

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David Bartholomae's Published Works

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Published Works

Inventing the University (2005) (698)
The Study of Error. (1980) (170)
Facts, Artifacts, and Counterfacts: Theory and Method for a Reading and Writing Course (1986) (143)
Writing with Teachers: A Conversation with Peter Elbow. (1995) (107)
Ways of Reading: An Anthology for Writers (1987) (92)
The Tidy House: Basic Writing in the American Curriculum (2005) (72)
Ways of Reading (1996) (40)
The teaching of writing (1986) (40)
The Teaching of Writing. Eighty-Fifth Yearbook of the National Society for the Study of Education. Part II. (1987) (31)
Freshman English, Composition, and CCCC (1989) (22)
Teaching Basic Writing: An Alternative to Basic Skills (2005) (18)
What Is Composition and (If You Know What That Is) Why Do We Teach It (2005) (18)
Teaching Writing as Learning and Process. (1986) (17)
Responses to Bartholomae and Elbow (1995) (16)
Writing Assignments: Where Writing Begins (2005) (14)
A Reply to Stephen North. (1990) (13)
Writing on the Margins: The Concept of Literacy in Higher Education (2005) (10)
Teaching on and off the Tenure Track: Highlights from the ADE Survey of Staffing Patterns in English (2011) (10)
Composition, 1900–2000 (2000) (8)
The Life of the Author (2001) (7)
Literacy and Departments of Language and Literature (2002) (5)
Writing on the Margins (2004) (5)
Released into Language: Errors, Expectations, and the Legacy of Mina Shaughnessy (2005) (5)
“I'm talking about Allen Bloom”: Writing on the network (1993) (4)
Resources for teaching Ways of reading: An anthology for writers (1993) (4)
The Pittsburgh Study of Writing. (2010) (3)
The Argument of Reading (2005) (3)
Wanderings: Misreadings, Miswritings, Misunderstandings (2005) (2)
Bibliographies of Studies in Victorian Literature for the Ten Years, 1975-1984 (1991) (2)
Composing, Uniting, Transacting: Whys and Ways of Connecting Reading and Writing (1989) (2)
Against the Grain (2005) (1)
Wistful and Admiring: The Rhetoric of Combination (2005) (1)
Reading and Writing in the Academy: A Conversation with David Bartholomae (2005) (1)
Producing Adult Readers: 1930–50 (2005) (1)
Living in Style (2005) (1)
Remarks in Honor of James F. Slevin (2006) (0)
The Prose Reader: Essays for College Writers (1988) (0)
Ordinary language and the teaching of writing (2016) (0)
Postscript: Teaching Composition (2005) (0)
From Arrigunaga to Yoknapatawpha: Ramiro Pinilla and William Faulkner: From Arrigunaga to Yoknapatawpha: Ramiro Pinilla and William Faulkner (2016) (0)
Back to Basics (2020) (0)
Composition, 1900-2000 (2000) (0)
Governance Structure (2000) (0)
Postscript: The Profession (2005) (0)
The future of English (1997) (0)
Postscript: The Study of Error (2005) (0)
Education in the Balance: On Receiving the ADE Francis Andrew March Award (2010) (0)
Chapter I: Words from Afar (1986) (0)
Like What We Imagine (2021) (0)
“Inventing the University” at 25: (2021) (0)

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