Abstract

This chapter examines U.S.-based approaches to curricular revision of the Rhetoric and Writing Minor at the American University in Cairo (AUC) through analysis of faculty interviews and relevant artifacts. Through this analysis, and consideration of AUC’s development in the context of changes in Egypt, the chapter argues that U.S.-based curricular approaches satisfied various local needs among AUC’s writing faculty and students. These findings complicate claims within international composition studies, which are concerned with non-reflective export of U.S. linguistic, pedagogical and program models into international sites. This chapter calls for expanding the perspective of U.S.-based approaches to composition studies to include paradigms from transnational literacy studies.

Document Type

Book Chapter

Source Publication

Emerging Writing Research from the Middle East-North Africa Region

Publication Date

2017

Rights

© 2017 Lisa R. Arnold, Anne Nebel, and Lynne Ronesi. Used with permission.

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