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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... faculty was whether a separate department of writing was the answer or not . Clearly , most of the non - composition faculty pre- ferred not to teach composition , but neither were they eager to see writ- ing faculty take the program ...
... writing . We have developed all these programs since 1993 . LABOR CONCERNS In our department , tenured or tenure - track faculty teach most of the ... faculty for a vote . A departmental recommendation , supported by Writing Identity 55.
... faculty did not teach our courses and had little or nothing to do with our program . Getting action or support or ... writing units came into being , namely , a need to centralize writing instruction ; a need to build a base of ...
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CONTENTS | 1 |
STORIES OF INDEPENDENT | 9 |
The Origins of a Department of Academic Creative | 21 |
Copyright | |
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