4/2/823 Guide to the Committee on Students' English Publications Committee on Students' English Publications

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Guide to the Committee on Students' English Publications 1928/9999 University of Illinois Archives Overview of the Collection Committee on Students' English Publications 1928-33, 1941-44, 1951, 1954- 4/2/823 University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Committee on Student English 0.30 English University of Illinois Archives
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Topical Term: English Language Rhetoric Student English Style Manuals
Administrative Information Accruals:

September 1963

Arrangement of Materials:

Chronological

Scope and Contents

Printed and duplicated copies of letters, communications (1941-43), reports (1943, 1954-55, 1959), stylebook (1951) and standards (1956, 1961) issued by the Committee on Students' English, relating to Senate rules, faculty identification of students needing assistance, policies concerning English usage of undergraduates, rhetoric instruction, proficiency testing, recommendations for graduation requirements. Stylebook (1951), results of placement tests and faculty questionnaires, Standards in Freshman Rhetoric (1956, 1961).

The 1918-33 committee sought to discover and correct students using unsatisfactory English. Reestablished in 1941, the committee was directed to study regulations, proficiency examinations, remedial courses, speech and writing clinics, style manuals and policy statements.