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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... graduate students , the very existence of this task force was news , and our first instinct was to dismiss it as biased , for no writing teachers had been consulted before the report was written . But soon enough , parts of the report ...
... Graduate students worried about both the trivial and the critical facets of our future - we had to adjust to new mailboxes and new programwide curricula for the first - year writing course . But the real adjustment was not found in ...
... graduate studies generally focuses on three main issues : the discrepancy between graduate student training in the- ory and the more generalized teaching that graduate students will even- tually do ; the need for teachers to focus on ...
Contents
CONTENTS | 1 |
STORIES OF INDEPENDENT | 9 |
The Origins of a Department of Academic Creative | 21 |
Copyright | |
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