137:. She began presenting at the Conference on College Composition and Communication and published papers such as "The Relation of Thought and Language Implicit in Some Early American Rhetoric and Composition Textbooks," "We are Trying Conferences," "The Uses of the Unconscious in Composing," "On Teaching Composition: Some Hypotheses as Definitions," and "Language Learning and the Teaching Process." Before the 1964 study
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Unfortunately, Harvard decided not to renew Tyler's contract, and the other faculty member in the program was fired for sexual harassment. Without faculty in her specialization within her first two weeks of arrival, Emig had to chart her own interdisciplinary course of study. Emig managed a course
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Janet A. Emig was born in
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346:"Literacy and Freedom." Keynote Address. Conference on College Composition and Communication, San Francisco, March 1982. Rpt. in Web of Meaning 171-78.
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The Composing Processes of Twelfth Graders. Research Report No. 13
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