So when Fish says “form” he means “school grammar” and syntax.

Winterowd states that “current-traditionalism simply has no advocates” (En-glish 14), and among compositionists this is generally true.

Translated into pedagogy, this belief typically results in some version of current-traditionalism. And despite some novel elements, Fish’s approach to writing instruction is indeed current-traditional, within a belletristic conception of English as the refined appreciation of literature.

Meanwhile, current-traditional composition already has its prominent public intellectual: Stanley Fish.

it continues to frame public attitudes toward writing pedagogy, and thus—to the extent that the public assesses practice and influences policy—continues to influence com-position.

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For current-traditional rhetoric, reality is rational, regular and certain - a realm which when it is not static is at least in a predictable, harmonious, symmetrical balance. Meaning thus exists independent of the perceiving mind, reposing in external reality.