What we are becoming : : developments in undergraduate writing majors / / edited by Greg A. Giberson, Thomas A. Moriarty.

• TeilnehmendeR: Giberson, Greg.; Moriarty, Thomas A.
• Year of Publication: 2010
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (294 pages)

Greg Giberson and Tom Moriarty have collected a rich volume that offers a state-of-the-field look at the question of the undergraduate writing major, a vital issue for compositionists as the discipline continues to evolve. What We Are Becoming provides an indispensable resource for departments and WPAs who are building undergraduate majors. Contributors to the volume address a range of vital questions for undergraduate programs, including such issues as the competition for majors within departments, the job market for undergraduates, varying focuses and curricula of such --

Table of Contents

A major in flexibility / Rebecca de Wind Mattingly and Patricia Harkin -- Redefining the undergraduate English writing major: an integrated approach at a small comprehensive university / Randy Brooks, Peiling Zhao, and Carmella Braniger -- Re-storying disciplinary relationships: the development of an undergraduate writing concentration / Lisa Langstraat, Mike Palmquist, and Kate Kiefer -- Outside the English department: Oakland University's writing program and the writing and rhetoric major / Wallis May Andersen -- "Between the idea and the reality-- falls the shadow": the promise and peril of a small college writing major / Kelly Lowe and William Macauley -- The writing major as shared commitment / Rodney F. Dick -- Dancing with our siblings: the unlikely case for a rhetoric major / David Beard -- Writing program development and disciplinary integrity: what's rhetoric got to do with it? / Lori Baker and Teresa Henning -- Remembering the canons' middle sisters: style, memory, and the return of the progymnasmata in the liberal arts writing major / Dominic F. Delli Carpini and Michael J. Zerbe -- Civic rhetoric and the undergraduate major in rhetoric and writing / Thomas A. Moriarty and Greg Giberson -- Composing multiliteracies and image: multimodal writing majors for a creative economy / Joddy Murray -- Not just another pretty classroom genre: the uses of creative nonfiction in the writing major / Celest Martin -- The writing arts major: a work in process / Jennifer Courtney, Deb Martin, and Diane Penrod -- "What exactly is this major?": creating disciplinary identity through an introductory course / Sanford Tweedie, Jennifer Courtney, and William I. Wolff -- Toward a description of undergraduate writing majors / Lee Campbell and Debra Jacobs.