Moffett, Freshman Comp, and the Teaching of Writing
By: Richard Murphy
Publication:
The Quarterly, Vol. 3, No. 1
Date: November 1980
Summary: Murphy rebuts the "implication" of Moffett's essay "Confessions of an Ex-College Freshman" that good essays can be written without skills in vocabulary, organization, and logic and that to teach these skills is "regressive."
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