Ann E. Berthoff (February 13, 1924 – November 26, 2022) was a scholar of composition who promoted the study of I.A.
[1] Berthoff led a National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Seminar entitled "Philosophy and the Composing Process.
[7] Berthoff published her book Resolved Soul: A Study of Marvell's Major Poems in 1970.
Lauer and Berthoff debated approaches to heuristics in the journal College Composition and Communication.
[8] In this textbook, Berthoff introduces the concept of the dialectical notebook, a tool for teaching response to reading.
[1][2][5][3] In addition to publishing a review of Freire's The Politics of Education: Culture, Power, and Liberation she also wrote a foreword to his Literacy: Reading the Word and the World.
[9] When Freire was unable to attend the Conference on College Composition and Communication due to illness, Berthoff was asked to lecture in his place.
[5] The Ann Berthoff Papers include her correspondence with many other rhetoric and composition scholars such as Cheryl Glenn, Cy Knoblauch and Lil Brannon, John Ramage, Susan Wells, Phyllis Lassner, Howard Tinberg, Kate Ronald, Patricia Bizzell, Margaret Fay Shaw, Linda Brodkey, and Jason Palmieri.