also this is a very weird experience, like people talking about you but not to you right in front of your face lol

I don't think of it as a "more recent name" so much as I think it's contextual, e.g., when one wants to include techcomm and business and professional writing, or depending on audience ("writing" is more familiar to the general public than "rhetcomp")

A couple of articles:
- Nystrand et al. "Where Did Composition Studies Come From?" journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1...
- Varnum, "The History of Composition: Reclaiming Our Lost Generations" www.jstor.org/stable/pdf/2...

- Berlin has two books on the history of writing instruction pre/post 1900
- Gold, Rhetoric at the Margins
- Murphy, A Short History of Writing Instruction
- Mailloux, Disciplinary Identities
- Crowley, Composition in the University
- North, The Making of Knowledge in Composition

There are lots of books about the history of composition, but you might find this article by @rhetrickery.bsky.social interesting: journal-veterans-studies.org/articles/30/...

IMO the differences are less b/t "comprhet" vs "FYW" and more between approaches across public/private, which likely have a lot to do with the historical emergence of rhetcomp as a discpline, often linked to the post-WW2 GI Bill and emergence of open admissions universities in the 60s & 70s.

Wow, I love that!!!

Incredibly bad faith and silly comparison. Libraries are public, not-for-profit entities that don't steal the books that are in their stacks. They actually pay publishers for subscriptions in order to gain access.

Chat interfaces that mimic human beings should be illegal.

Organizations who use works they have no license to should be shut down.

It’s pretty simple.