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A field of dreams : independent writing programs and the future of composition studies / edited by Peggy O'Neill, Angela Crow, Larry W. Burton.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- O'Neill, Peggy, Author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- English language--Rhetoric--Study and teaching.
- English language.
- Report writing--Study and teaching (Higher).
- Report writing.
- Independent study.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (326 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Logan : Utah State University Press, c2002.
- Logan Utah State University Press, [2003]
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 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
- Contents:
- 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
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [301]-311) and index.
- Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International CC BY 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode
- Description based on print version record.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 9786613266903
- 9781283266901
- 1283266903
- 9780874214642
- 0874214645
- OCLC:
- 702104721
- Access Restriction:
- Unrestricted online access.
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