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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... stand - alone department . In fact , and even though tenured members do enjoy the privilege of job security , it seems more likely that the reverse is true . Perhaps you can also agree that it's hasty to contend that “ privileged ...
... stand - alone department . Again , and as I hope I've made clear , no plan for a stand - alone department will succeed unless proponents take into account the limitations and opportunities of their unique local con- texts . Nonetheless ...
... stand - alone department does indeed offer opportunities for autonomy and growth not available in other contexts , even if it is not the utopian work place some of us had hoped for . Neither do I mean to be pessimistic about a stand - alone ...
Contents
CONTENTS | 1 |
STORIES OF INDEPENDENT | 9 |
The Origins of a Department of Academic Creative | 21 |
Copyright | |
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