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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... tion , we were struck , as we read through the stories , by the enthusiasm and optimism of the authors , even when the situation , as viewed by an outsider , does not seem to warrant such a response . We do not know exactly why the ...
... tion teaching and left it to the minority of faculty willing to teach it . Would such a department be a healthy one ? Even comprising a third of the department , would the rhetoric / composition faculty play a promi- nent role in the ...
... tion has vowed to eliminate all " remedial " writing programs within the next three years . Thus , applying departmental resources to efforts to restruc- ture the assessment methods that determine " remedial " status or the cur- ricular ...
Contents
CONTENTS | 1 |
STORIES OF INDEPENDENT | 9 |
The Origins of a Department of Academic Creative | 21 |
Copyright | |
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