Moreover, Randall Popken, who is a WPA at Tarleton State University in Texas, writing in College Composition and Communication in 2004,

showed that class size is a long-standing, serious issue with his historical

case study of Edwin Hopkins, a writing teacher at the University of Kansas

from 1889 to 1937 (618-41)� Hopkins, following the then relatively new

composition pedagogy of having students write extensively, reached the

point of a breakdown from sheer overwork�