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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... rhetoric and composition , troubled by a wider gap - real or perceived - between pub- lic - supported universities ... rhetoric and composition studies housed in English departments , not separate departments of writing . ) Would ...
... rhetoric ; that is , the term composition studies evokes praxis in its fullest sense . Most of the indepen- dent departments described herein , it seems to me , do not embrace the more inclusive meaning of " rhetoric , ” but rather " ...
... Rhetoric , Composition , and the Teaching of English Graduate program at the University of Arizona . Founder and editor of Rhetoric Review , she teaches both graduate and undergradu- ate courses in writing and rhetoric . She has ...
Contents
Cautionary Tales about Change | 1 |
STORIES OF INDEPENDENT | 9 |
The Origins of a Department of Academic Creative | 21 |
Copyright | |
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