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Teacher-Scholar: The Journal of the State Comprehensive University

Abstract

Giberson, Greg, Jim Nugent, and Lori Ostergaard, ed. Writing Majors: Eighteen Program Profiles. Logan: Utah State UP, 2015. What does a writing major look like? In Writing Majors: Eighteen Program Profiles, Greg Giberson et al. have compiled a diverse and detailed collection of answers to that question. The book’s plural title, Writing Majors, is apt, for this is not a description of the writing major; instead, we find little consensus among the many programs outlined here. The notion of a writing major, it turns out, is amorphous. Sometimes a writing major is housed in its own department, as are the first ten programs profiled in this collection. Sometimes a writing major is housed within an existing English department, as are the final eight programs profiled. The many distinctions expand from there into a fruitful understanding of what disparate writing majors look like across the U.S. The great diversity is a great advantage, allowing for curricular flexibility and institutional fit.

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