She served as the first female chair of the Conference on College Composition and Communication and as vice president of the National Council of Teachers of English in 1963.
[citation needed] She returned to Case Western Reserve University to obtain her doctorate in English, which she completed in 1953.
[5] After her time at Harvard, Tyler chaired the Conference on College Composition and Communication in 1963 and also served as vice president of the National Council of Teachers of English.
[2][3][4] The 1963 CCC Conference "Toward a New Rhetoric" included influential papers by Wayne C. Booth, Josephine Miles, Francis Christensen, and Edward P.J.
[6] The conference also noted that the field of composition studies was still very heterogeneous at this point, representing a conglomerate of teachers of linguistics, literature, and writing.