Field Of DreamsPeggy O'Neill, Angela Crow, Larry W. Burton One of the first collections to focus on independent writing programs, A Field of Dreams offers a complex picture of the experience of the stand-alone. Included here are narratives of individual programs from a wide range of institutions, exploring such issues as what institutional issues led to their independence, how independence solved or created administrative problems, how it changed the culture of the writing program and faculty sense of purpose, success, or failure. Further chapters build larger ideas about the advantages and disadvantages of stand-alone status, covering labor issues, promotion/tenure issues, institutional politics, and others. A retrospective on the famous controversy at Minnesota is included, along with a look at the long-established independent programs at Harvard and Syracuse. Finally, the book considers disciplinary questions raised by the growth of stand-alone programs. Authors here respond with critique and reflection to ideas raised by other chapters—do current independent models inadvertently diminish the influence of rhetoric and composition scholarship? Do they tend to ignore the outward movement of literacy toward technology? Can they be structured to enhance interdisciplinary or writing-across-the-curriculum efforts? Can independent programs play a more influential role in the university than they do from the English department? |
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... create the conditions in which qualified , talented composition and rhetoric scholars routinely gain tenure . All of these differences , how- ever , seem to stem from a desire to create reasonable working condi- tions as well as the ...
... create the ideal ( Maid ) ? Although we want easy answers to how to begin , the situations are com- plicated and are determined by local variables . In places such as Hampden - Sydney and Harvard , where programs exist , one sees the ...
... created a program proposal for a major in professional and technical writing . That labor requires not only providing expertise but communicating with others not familiar with the field , in ways that create consensus about possible ...
Contents
CONTENTS | 1 |
STORIES OF INDEPENDENT | 9 |
The Origins of a Department of Academic Creative | 21 |
Copyright | |
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