Notes that it is not easy to help students enter into ongoing dialogues on ethics in both school-based and more immediate environments, ask students to consider ethics on both personal and social planes, and require students to write and reflect to stave off the disembodiment of culture. Describe a course that helps students to see rhetoric and…

In 2004 the Executive Council of the Modern Language Association of America (MLA) created a task force to examine current standards and emerging trends in publication requirements for tenure and promotion in English and foreign language departments in the United States. To fulfill its charge, the task force reviewed numerous studies, reports, and…

In recent years, scholars and teachers in both the broad field of Composition Studies and the more specialized arena of Computers and Composition Studies have begun to recognize that the bandwidth of literacy practices and values on which their profession has focused during the last century may be overly narrow. In response, a number of educators…

This bibliography is a compilation of publications written to define and delineate the role of the secondary English chairman and to provide guidelines for his effective performance in that role. A total of 149 works are indexed. (CK)

English departments of the future must encompass composition, language, literature, reading, mass media, teacher preparation, adult education, logic, and educational research. (DD)

Describes the results of a questionnaire survey of English department heads regarding teaching load and teaching conditions. (DD)

Considers the demands being placed on English departments for better teaching of writing and calls for a new emphasis on research in the teaching of writing. (AA)

Discusses need for a clear sense of the policies and objectives of the English department, to guide reactions to current problems. (AA)

Fifth survey of departments included in the 1970 rating of graduate programs. (AA)

Summary of five years of annual surveys. (AA)

Examines the offerings of the English department at the University of Michigan, offers observations on writing in America (based on the book "The Writer's Market"), and concludes that what goes on in the English classroom has few significant implications for most writing in America. (JM)

Describes the changes and problems of the English department in adjusting to a new core curriculum at a liberal arts college. Discusses assumptions about planning, course requirements, and course content beneficial to the department. (EL)