In defense of a nation: The national defense education act, project English, and the origins of empirical research in composition

JAC: A Journal of Composition Theory

Volumn 25, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 513-542

  Strain, Margaret M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DAYTON   (United States)

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