# Placing the History of College Writing - Stories from the Incomplete Archive

- By: Nathan Shepley
- Publisher: University of Houston
- Source: [LibreTexts](https://human.libretexts.org/Bookshelves/Composition/Specialized_Composition/Placing_the_History_of_College_Writing_-_Stories_from_the_Incomplete_Archive_(Shepley))
- Licence: CC BY-NC-ND
- Read at LibreTexts: https://human.libretexts.org/Bookshelves/Composition/Specialized_Composition/Placing_the_History_of_College_Writing_-_Stories_from_the_Incomplete_Archive_(Shepley)
- PDF: https://downloads.libretexts.org/api/v1/download/human-32340/pdf

In Placing the History of College Writing, Nathan Shepley argues that 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. Even if the immediate outcome of student writing is to generate academic credit, Shepley shows, the writing does more complex rhetorical work.