1977. Brent Henze

was even more limited than tagmemics in its value for composition and rhetoric in that it was attentive mostly to sentence-level considerations. However, during the 1970s, several rhetorical theorists and compositionists nevertheless aligned themselves with versions of this linguistic current. Several of them, most notably Ross Winterowd and Joseph Williams, sought ways to overcome the limitations of TG by crossing the “sentence boundary” into larger discursive forms, and by uniting it with a broader theory of rhetoric.19 Furthermore, its contribution to pedagogies like sentence combining and its fundamental role in informing the debates over “students’ right to their own language” in the early 1970s made it a significant contributor to new directions in composition.