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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... teachers and scholars ? " We began asking these questions in our courses and continued them in the context of actual curricular and disciplinary debates . The follow- ing semester , the fall of 1996 , I was appointed graduate student ...
... teachers do , such a program undermines the disciplinary standing of composition studies and reinforces the dys- functional dualism of skills and content that positions teachers of writing as assistants to faculty who teach more ...
... teaching of writing and on teachers of writing if we are to see the power in what we do . Introductory literacy courses have the power to reinterpret prevailing assumptions against changing needs by teaching students how to make ...
Contents
CONTENTS | 1 |
STORIES OF INDEPENDENT | 9 |
The Origins of a Department of Academic Creative | 21 |
Copyright | |
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