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Record Nr.

UNINA9910524710003321

Titolo

A field of dreams : independent writing programs and the future of composition studies / / edited by Peggy O'Neill, Angela Crow, Larry W. Burton

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Logan, : Utah State University Press, c2002

ISBN

9786613266903

9781283266901

1283266903

9780874214642

0874214645

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (326 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

O'NeillPeggy <1963->

CrowAngela <1965->

BurtonLarry W

Disciplina

808/.042/071

Soggetti

English language - Rhetoric - Study and teaching

Report writing - Study and teaching (Higher)

Independent study

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [301]-311) and index.

Nota di contenuto

CONTENTS; INTRODUCTION Cautionary Tales about Change; I Local Scenes STORIES OF INDEPENDENT WRITING PROGRAMS; II Beyond the Local CONNECTIONS AMONG COMMUNITIES; III The Big Picture IMPLICATIONS FOR COMPOSITION, ENGLISH STUDIES, AND LITERACY EDUCATION; AFTERWORD Countering the Naysayers-Independent Writing Programs as Successful Experiments in American Education; REFERENCES; NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS; INDEX

Sommario/riassunto

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 s