A Field of Dreams: Independent Writing Programs and the Future of Composition Studies
- writing program administration, writing program, faculty development, faculty
Edited by Peggy O'Neill, Angela Crow, and Larry W. Burton
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.
Table of Contents
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Introduction: Cautionary Tales about Change, Angela Crow and Peggy O’Neill
Part 1. Local Scenes: Stories of Independent Writing Programs
Chapter 1. The Origins of a Department of Academic, Creative, and Professional Writing, Daniel J. Royer and Roger Gilles
Chapter 2. Internal Friction in a New Independent Department of Writing and What the External Conflict Resolution Consultants Recommended, Eleanor Agnew and Phyllis Surrency Dallas
Chapter 3. Writing Identity: The Independent Writing Department as a Disciplinary Center, Anne Aronson and Craig Hansen
Chapter 4. Small but Good: How a Specialized Writing Program Goes It Alone, Louise Rehling
Chapter 5. Independence Fostering Community: The Benefits of an Independent Writing Program at a Small Liberal Arts College, Elizabeth J. Deis, Lowell T. Frye, and Katherine J. Weese
Chapter 6. No Longer Discourse Technicians: Redefining Place and Purpose in an Independent Canadian Writing Program, Brian Turner and Judith Kearns
Part 2. Beyond the Local: Connections Among Communities
Chapter 7. Learning as We G(r)o(w): Strategizing the Lessons of a Fledgling Rhetoric and Writing Department, Jane E. Hindman
Chapter 8. Creating Two Departments of Writing: One Past and One Future, Barry M. Maid
Chapter 9. Who Wants Composition? Reflections on the Rise and Fall of an Independent Program, Chris M. Anson
Chapter 10. Revising the Dream: Graduate Students, Independent Writing Programs, and the Future of English Studies, Jessica Yood
Chapter 11. Locating Writing Programs in Research Universities, Peggy O’Neill and Ellen Schendel
Chapter 12. Wagering Tenure by Signing on with Independent Writing Programs, Angela Crow
Part 3. The Big Picture: Implications for Composition, English Studies and Literacy Education
Chapter 13. A Rose by Every Other Name: The Excellent Problem of Independent Writing Programs, Wendy Bishop
Chapter 14. Keeping (in) Our Places, Keeping Our Two Faces, Theresa Enos
Chapter 15. Managing to Make a Difference, Thomas P. Miller
Chapter 16. Stasis and Change: The Role of Independent Composition Programs and the Dynamic Nature of Literacy, Cynthia L. Selfe, Gail E. Hawisher, and Patricia Ericsson
Chapter 17. Bigger than a Discipline? Kurt Spellmeyer
Afterword: Countering the Naysayers: Independent Writing Programs as Successful Experiments in American Education, Larry W. Burton
Publication Information: O'Neill, Peggy, Angela, Crow, & Larry W., Burton (Eds.) (2002). A Field of Dreams: Independent Writing Programs and The Future of Composition Studies: Utah State University Press. https://digitalcommons.usu.edu/usupress_pubs/135
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