37 research outputs found
Maureen Quilligan. Incest and Agency in Elizabethâs England. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2005. 282 pp. index. 22.50 (pbk). ISBN: 0-8122-3863-X (cl), 0-8122-1905-8 (pbk).
Richard Strier. Resistant Structures: Particularity, Radicalism, and Renaissance Texts. Berkeley, Los Angeles, and London: University of California Press, 1995. xiii + 239 pp. $38.00.
Jane Donawerth papers
Jane Donawerth has been a professor of English at the University of Maryland, College Park, since 1975. The papers cover the years between 1974 and 2009 and document Donawerth's activities at the University of Maryland in the Women's Studies Program, the Center for Renaissance and Baroque Studies, the Composition/Rhetoric Program, and various appointments and committees within the English department. Included in the collection are correspondence, memoranda, meeting agendas and minutes, grant proposals, flyers, syllabi, clippings, notes, publications, budgets, curriculum vitae, course descriptions, course proposals, newsletters, programs, and reports
Elizabeth Mazzola. Womenâs Wealth and Womenâs Writing in Early Modern England: âLittle Legaciesâ and the Materials of Motherhood. Women and Gender in the Early Modern World. Burlingon, VT: Ashgate, 2009. Pp. xi+126. $99.95 (cloth).
Innovation and Restoration: A History of Introductory Academic Writing at the University of Maryland
What current theoretical frameworks inform academic and professional writing? What does research tell us about the effectiveness of academic and professional writing programs? What do we know about existing best practices? What are the current guidelines and procedures in evaluating a programâs effectiveness? What are the possibilities in regard to future research and changes to best practices in these programs in an age of accountability? Editors Shirley Wilson Logan and Wayne H. Slater bring together leading scholars in rhetoric and composition to consider the history, trends, and future of academic and professional writing in higher education through the lens of these five central questions. The first two essays in the book provide a history of the academic and professional writing program at the University of Maryland. Subsequent essays explore successes and challenges in the establishment and development of writing programs at four other major institutions, identify the features of language that facilitate academic and professional communication, look at the ways digital practices in academic and professional writing have shaped how writers compose and respond to texts, and examine the role of assessment in curriculum and pedagogy. An afterword by distinguished rhetoric and composition scholars Jessica Enoch and Scott Wible offers perspectives on the future of academic and professional writing. This collection takes stock of the historical, rhetorical, linguistic, digital, and evaluative aspects of the teaching of writing in higher education. Among the critical issues addressed are how university writing programs were first established and what early challenges they faced, where writing programs were housed and who administered them, how the language backgrounds of composition students inform the way writing is taught, the ways in which current writing technologies create new digital environments, and how student learning and programmatic outcomes should be assessed.https://nsuworks.nova.edu/shss_facbooks/1143/thumbnail.jp