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Peer reviewedIrsfeld, John H. – College English, 1974
Descriptors: College Students, English Departments, English Instruction, Role Conflict
Peer reviewedClayton, John J. – College English, 1981
Presents reasons for interested undergraduates to major in English and points out useful skills developed by English majors. Emphasizes the importance of English department involvement in the career planning of its students, and details the steps undertaken by the University of Massachusetts English department to help its students. (JM)
Descriptors: Career Planning, College English, College Students, English Departments
Direct linkFinke, Laurie; Johnson, Barbara; Leitch, Vincent B.; McGowan, John; Williams, Jeffrey J. – College English, 2003
Literature anthologies are part of the furniture of English departments. Like the putty or gunmetal-gray file cabinet that one might have gotten new or used, they are not a showpiece of academic decor, but it would be hard to imagine work spaces without them. Indeed, they are omnipresent, amassed on the shelves of campus bookstores, weighing down…
Descriptors: Literature Appreciation, Anthologies, English Departments, Literary Criticism
Peer reviewedWagner, Vern – College English, 1974
Literature is basically a private, silent enterprise--which is not served by the social, talky processes of the classroom. (JH)
Descriptors: College Students, English Curriculum, English Departments, English Instruction
Peer reviewedJohnston, Kenneth R. – College English, 1975
Reform in English studies is compromised by our tendency to talk like dilettantes, but behave like philologists. (JH)
Descriptors: Attitude Change, Authors, College Faculty, College Students
