Contents
Foreword
Writing Majors
Section 1: Disciplinary and Interdisciplinary Issues for Writing Majors
1. A Major in Flexibility
2. Redefining the Undergraduate English Writing Major: An Integrated Approach at a Small Comprehensive University
3. Restorying Disciplinary Relationships: The Development of an Undergraduate Writing Concentration
4. Outside the English Department: Oakland University’s Writing Program and the Writing and Rhetoric Major
5. “Between the idea and the reality . . . falls the Shadow”: The Promise and Peril of a Small College Writing Major
6. The Writing Major as Shared Commitment
7. Dancing with Our Siblings: The Unlikely Case for a Rhetoric Major
8. Writing Program Development and Disciplinary Integrity: What’s Rhetoric Got to Do with It?
Section 2: Curricula, Location, and Directions of Writing Majors
9. Remembering the Canons’ Middle Sisters: Style, Memory, and the Return of the Progymnasmata in the Liberal Arts Writing Major
10. Civic Rhetoric and the Undergraduate Major in Rhetoric and Writing
11. Composing Multiliteracies and Image: Multimodal Writing Majors for a Creative Economy
12. Not Just Another Pretty Classroom Genre: The Uses of Creative Nonfiction in the Writing Major
13. The Writing Arts Major: A Work in Process
14. “What Exactly is This Major?” Creating Disciplinary Identity through an Introductory Course
15. Toward a Description of Undergraduate Writing Majors
Afterword
About the Contributors