What Can a Writing Program Be When the Director Doesn't Believe in Freshman Composition?.

Cain, Mary Ann

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Publication Date: 1992

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What Can a Writing Program Be When the Director Doesn't Believe in Freshman Composition?

Cain, Mary Ann

Composition Studies/Freshman English News, v20 n1 p63-72 Spr 1992

Discusses problems with first-year composition in higher education, primarily the marginality and the tenuous hold writing maintains within the academy. Reconsiders the English department's role in serving the general curriculum. (SR)

Descriptors: Educational History, English Departments, Freshman Composition, Higher Education, Politics of Education, Teaching Conditions

Publication Type: Journal Articles; Opinion Papers

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Language: English

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