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.
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Book Chapter
Source Publication
Emerging Writing Research from the Middle East-North Africa Region
Publication Date
2017
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© 2017 Lisa R. Arnold, Anne Nebel, and Lynne Ronesi. Used with permission.
Recommended Citation
Austin, J.P. (2017). 3. Expanding Transnational Frames into Composition Studies: Revising the Rhetoric and Writing Minor at the American University in Cairo. In L.R. Arnod, A. Nebel, & L. Ronesi (eds.) Emerging Writing Research from the Middle East-North Africa Region. University Press of Colorado. https://doi.org/10.37514/INT-B.2017.0896
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