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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... colleagues . Massy , Wilger , and Colbek found this , too , was commonplace in the institutions they studied : Another complaint frequently mentioned by [ new hires ] is that their senior colleagues refuse to recognize disciplinary ...
... COLLEAGUES In Developing Successful College Writing Programs , Edward White notes the importance of improving the " campus climate for writing , " conclud- ing that a key to establishing a good climate is for “ all members of the campus ...
... colleagues , we have persuaded them of our worth ; we have improved our ethos and elicited an attitude of assent , smoothing the path for the kind of program we value — a broader , more rhetorically based curriculum . We could therefore ...
Contents
CONTENTS | 1 |
STORIES OF INDEPENDENT | 9 |
The Origins of a Department of Academic Creative | 21 |
Copyright | |
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