What We Are Becoming : Developments in Undergraduate Writing Majors / / edited by Greg A. Giberson, Thomas A. Moriarty.

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 W...

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Place / Publishing House:Logan, Utah : : Utah State University Press,, 2010.
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Year of Publication:2010
Language:English
Physical Description:1 online resource (294 pages)
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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.