Analysis Of Sharon Crowley's 'Composition In The University'

In “Composition in the University”, Sharon Crowley discusses the position of composition in the university. Despite of the “institutional importance of the composition”, studies about the composition is undervalued and invisible within the academy (2). In the history of composition, teachers and scholars failed in speaking for composition. She writes that the purpose of the composition course is “to shape student to behave, think, write, and speak as students”: composition class aimed at inculcating the discursive behavior in students “to qualify them to join the community” (9). However, the university failed to construct the desired student subjectivity. Because the educational and departmental systems in the university are based on the notion