Download or read book Placing the History of College Writing written by Nathan Shepley and published by Parlor Press LLC. This book was released on 2016-03-22 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pre-1950s composition history, if analyzed with the right conceptual tools, can pluralize and clarify our understanding of the relationship between the writing of college students and the writing’s physical, social, and discursive surroundings.