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Tiêu đề
"Between the idea and the reality? falls the shadow": The promise and peril of a small college writing major
Tác giả
Lowe K.; Macauley W.
Năm xuất bản
2010
Source title
What We Are Becoming: Developments in Undergratuate Writing Majors
Số trích dẫn
2
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Liên kết
Tóm tắt
There is a certain intellectual and emotional appeal to an undergraduate writing major: majors bring students and advisees and money and tenure-lines and your name in the graduation bulletin. A writing major can also indicate that, finally, your institution recognizes writing as a legitimate academic field rather than simply a set of skills to be (quickly) mastered in the service of other majors or as a secondary consideration to "content." So, what could possibly be wrong with a writing major? Plenty, as it turns out. Our argument is simple: there is nothing wrong with a writing major per se. However, there is a lot that can go wrong with a writing major and we feel, in our experience in creating, maintaining, and finally leaving a writing major at a small liberal arts college, that we have seen much of what is good about a major and the many pitfalls, traps, and other mishaps that can occur in the development of a writing major at a small college. Whether you are working to begin a writing major or you are sustaining one, we hope that a discussion of some of the issues that presented themselves in our work in developing a writing major will be helpful in supporting yours. © 2010 by Utah State University Press. All Rights Reserved.
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Tài liệu tham khảo
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Nơi xuất bản
Utah State University Press
Hình thức xuất bản
Book chapter
Open Access
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Scopus