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Enculturation: Kathleen Welch |
 | | Since 1949, when the Conference on College Composition and Communication was founded in Chicago, the terms composition and rhetoric have been linked in a social-constructionist move that is now ubiquitous in many United Statesian English departments as well as in many free-standing composition-rhetoric programs. |
| | Thus, many colleges and universities respond by employing the underpaid 'fringe people' for the utility courses and the so-called 'polishing' work of composition, avoiding the expense of tenure or tenure-track faculty who teach upper-level or graduate courses in rhetoric, and who don't see language as transparent at all. |
| | Or, more commonly, these universities and colleges subsidize tenured faculty members who claim to be compositionists-rhetoricians and have constructed fiefdoms that effectively exclude people trained in the field of composition-rhetoric. |
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