ERIC Number: ED280056
Record Type: Non-Journal
Publication Date: 1987-Mar
Pages: 12
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Designing an Applied Writing M.A. within a Traditional English Department.
Anderson, W. Steve
A Master of Arts in Technical and Expository Writing program has been implemented in the English department at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock. Designed to make future teachers and technical writers into better writers, the program gives them a larger view of the writing process in which they are participating. Three required courses make up the core of the program: composition theory, rhetorical theory, and linguistic theory. The applied section of the program contains an expository option for candidates with an interest in theory and a general application of writing skills and a technical option for students who wish to train specifically as technical, business, and government writers. The third component of the program is a final project that involves students in a major writing project, either a conventional thesis, an applied project, or an internship with portfolio. A cognate of up to nine hours taken in other departments comprises the fourth component. The program is successful in that it can be done well within a conventional English department. (SRT)
Publication Type: Speeches/Meeting Papers; Reports - Descriptive
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Audience: Administrators; Teachers; Practitioners
Language: English
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