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Tiêu đề
Redefining the undergraduate English writing major: An integrated approach at a small comprehensive university
Tác giả
Brooks R.; Zhao P.; Braniger C.
Năm xuất bản
2010
Source title
What We Are Becoming: Developments in Undergratuate Writing Majors
Số trích dẫn
2
DOI
Liên kết
Tóm tắt
The steady growth of undergraduate majors in rhetoric and composition in the last two decades has prompted discussions about the challenging development of these majors. In this chapter we will discuss the development of an undergraduate writing major with an integrated model at a small comprehensive university. This model provides us with a means of addressing some of the challenges faced by any English department in developing an effective undergraduate writing major. The first challenge is the difficulty of modeling an undergraduate writing program on graduate programs in rhetoric and composition. A second challenge we address deals with the place of undergraduate writing programs within liberal arts and professional schools of higher education. Within our own discipline of English studies, the undergraduate writing major must also address historical challenges in bridging the splits between theory and practice as well as between rhetoric and poetic. We also discuss the challenge that first-year writing programs often do not value how the integration of rhetorical theories and practices can benefit all students, not just writing majors. English departments trying to implement an integration model may have to address the challenge of traditional roles of English faculty that reinscribe the split between reception and production of text. Finally, the development of a new integrated undergraduate writing major presents potential challenges to curricular design of rhetoric and composition graduate programs. © 2010 by Utah State University Press. All Rights Reserved.
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Nơi xuất bản
Utah State University Press
Hình thức xuất bản
Book chapter
Open Access
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Scopus