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Book/Printed Material What we are becoming : developments in undergraduate writing majors

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Title

  • What we are becoming : developments in undergraduate writing majors

Names

  • Giberson, Greg
  • Moriarty, Thomas A.

Created / Published

  • Logan, Utah : Utah State University Press, [2010]
  • ©2010

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.

Headings

  • -  Creative writing (Higher education)--United States
  • -  English language--Rhetoric--Study and teaching (Higher)--United States
  • -  English philology--Study and teaching (Higher)--United States
  • -  Report writing--Study and teaching (Higher)--United States
  • -  Writing centers--United States

Notes

  • -  Includes bibliographical references.
  • -  Description based on print version record; resource not viewed.

Medium

  • 1 electronic resource (viii, 294 pages)

Call Number/Physical Location

  • PE1405.U6

Digital Id

Library of Congress Control Number

  • 2020719606

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  • Unrestricted online access

Online Format

  • image
  • pdf

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Chicago citation style:

Giberson, Greg, and Thomas A Moriarty. What We Are Becoming: Developments in Undergraduate Writing Majors. [Logan, Utah: Utah State University Press, ©, 2010] Pdf. https://aj.sunback.homes/item/2020719606/.

APA citation style:

Giberson, G. & Moriarty, T. A. (2010) What We Are Becoming: Developments in Undergraduate Writing Majors. [Logan, Utah: Utah State University Press, ©] [Pdf] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://aj.sunback.homes/item/2020719606/.

MLA citation style:

Giberson, Greg, and Thomas A Moriarty. What We Are Becoming: Developments in Undergraduate Writing Majors. [Logan, Utah: Utah State University Press, ©, 2010] Pdf. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <aj.sunback.homes/item/2020719606/>.