Going Public: What Writing Programs Learn from Engagement - Couverture souple

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0874217695 ISBN 13 : 9780874217698

Editeur : Utah State University Press, 2010

Synopsis

As institutions begin to include more explicit engagement with citizen and stakeholder communities as an element of their mission, writing program administrators find themselves with an opportunity to articulate the ways in which writing program goals and purposes significantly contribute to achieving these new institutional goals. Writing programs are typically situated at points where students make the transition from community to college (e.g., first-year composition) or from college to community (e.g. professional writing), and are already dedicated to developing literacies that are critically needed in communities.
In Going Public, Rose and Weiser locate their discussion in the context of three current conversations in higher education: 1) the engagement movement, particularly as this movement serves to address and respond to calls for greater accountability to broader publics; 2) recent interest in public discourse/civic rhetoric among scholars of rhetorical history and contemporary rhetorical theory; 3) the service learning movement in higher education, especially the ways in which college and university writing programs have contributed to this movement.
While there have been a number of publications describing service-learning and community leadership programs, most of these focus on curricular elements and address administrative issues, if at all, primarily from a curricular perspective. The emphasis of the current book is on the ways that engagement-focused programs change conceptions of WPA identity. Going Public, then, is not only a significant contribution to the scholarly literature, but also supplies an important new resource for WPA preparation courses in rhetoric and composition PhD programs.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Utah State University Press
• Date d'édition: 2010
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0874217695
• ISBN 13: 9780874217698
• Reliure: Broché
• Numéro d'édition: 1
• Nombre de pages: 232
• Éditeur: Rose Shirley K, Weiser Irwin
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible