Introducing English

Over the past thirty years, composition has flowered as a discipline in the academy. Doctoral programs in composition abound, and its position in the pantheon of academic fields seems assured. There is plenty of work in composition. But what is the nature of that work now, and what should it be? James Slevin asks such probing, primary questions in Introducing English , an overdue assessment of the state of composition by one of its most respected practitioners. Too often, Slevin claims, represen