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From: Peer Review
Date: 20031001
Author:Tritelli, David

When the study of English literature began to be incorporated into the undergraduate curriculum, it was almost universally understood to entail writing instruction. Charged in 1913 by Cambridge University "to promote, so far as may be in his power, the study in the University of the subject of English Literature," for example, Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch proposed that "here in Cambridge we practise writing: that we practise it not only for our own improvement, but to make, or at least try to make, appropriate, perspicuous, accurate, persuasive writing a recognisable hall-mark of anything turned ...

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