Writing Majors: Eighteen Program Profiles

Giberson, Greg; Nugent, Jim; Ostergaard, Lori

ISBN 10: 087421971X / ISBN 13: 9780874219715

Verlag: Utah State University Press, 2015

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Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers ria9780874219715_new

Bibliografische Details

• Titel: Writing Majors: Eighteen Program Profiles
• Verlag: Utah State University Press
• Erscheinungsjahr: 2015
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN-10: 087421971X
• ISBN-13: 9780874219715
• Einband: Softcover
• Zustand: New

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Inhaltsangabe

The writing major is among the most exciting scenes in the evolving American university. Writing Majors is a collection of firsthand descriptions of the origins, growth, and transformations of eighteen different programs. The chapters provide useful administrative insight, benchmark information, and even inspiration for new curricular configurations from a range of institutions.

A practical sourcebook for those who are building, revising, or administering their own writing majors , this volume also serves as a historical archive of a particular instance of growth and transformation in American higher education. Revealing bureaucratic, practical, and institutional matters as well as academic ideals and ideologies, each profile includes sections providing a detailed program review and rationale, an implementation narrative, and reflection and prospection about the program.

Documenting eighteen stories of writing major programs in various stages of formation, preservation, and reform and exposing the contingencies of their local and material constitution, Writing Majors speaks as much to the "how to" of building writing major programs as to the larger "what," "why," and "how" of institutional growth and change.

Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Greg Giberson is associate professor in the Department of Writing and Rhetoric at Oakland University. Jim Nugent is associate professor in the Department of Writing and Rhetoric at Oakland University. Lori Ostergaard is associate professor and director of first-year writing in the Department of Writing and Rhetoric at Oakland University.