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Toward a Definition of a Writing Program at a Two-Year College: You Say You Want a Revolution?
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Klausman, Jeffrey – Teaching English in the Two-Year College, 2013
In 1990 Helon Howell Raines published "Is There a Writing Program in This College? Two Hundred and Thirty-Six Two-Year Schools Respond," in which she reported on her study, via survey and eight follow-up telephone interviews, of two-year college writing programs across the country. Raines asked questions about departmental and institutional…
Descriptors: Writing Instruction, Beliefs, College Programs, College English
Rendering the Idea of a Writing Program: A Look at Six Two-Year Colleges
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Janangelo, Joseph; Klausman, Jeffrey – Teaching English in the Two-Year College, 2012
The word "idea" assumed special meaning in composition studies when Stephen M. North, in "The Idea of a Writing Center," showed how an idea can evoke and ignite intense expectations and aversions surrounding literacy instruction. In particular, North lamented the "false sense of knowing" that made getting a message through (in this case, about…
Descriptors: Writing Instruction, Literacy, Laboratories, Writing (Composition)
Practicing Boyer's Scholarship of Integration: A Program for Community College Faculty--Revised
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Salmon, Victoria N. – Teaching English in the Two-Year College, 2004
The Doctor of Arts in Community College Education (DACCE) program at George Mason University is committed to Ernest Boyer's philosophy of integration; it encourages better pedagogy and it revitalizes the two-year college classroom. This program prepares students to be leaders in undergraduate education. In addition to expertise in a selected…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Undergraduate Study, Scholarship, College Faculty