Professionalizing TA Training: Commitment To Teaching or Rhetorical Response to Market Crisis?.

Leverenz, Carrie Shively; Goodburn, Amy

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ERIC Number: EJ622856

Record Type: CIJE

Publication Date: 1998

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ISSN: ISSN-0196-4682

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Professionalizing TA Training: Commitment To Teaching or Rhetorical Response to Market Crisis?

Leverenz, Carrie Shively; Goodburn, Amy

WPA: Writing Program Administration, v22 n1-2 p9-32 Fall-Win 1998

Explores three forces currently at work: the crisis in the academic job market, public attacks on higher education, especially teaching, and the rise of composition studies as an academic discipline. Suggests professionalizing these areas to counteract the three forces. (SG)

Descriptors: Higher Education, Labor Market, Rhetoric, Teacher Education, Teacher Improvement, Teaching Assistants, Writing (Composition)

Publication Type: Guides - Non-Classroom; Journal Articles

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Language: English

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