Negotiated Independence: How a Canadian Writing Program Became a Centre.

Kearns, Judith; Turner, Brian

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ERIC Number: EJ621148

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Publication Date: 1997

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Negotiated Independence: How a Canadian Writing Program Became a Centre.

Kearns, Judith; Turner, Brian

WPA: Writing Program Administration, v21 n1 p31-43 Fall 1997

Describes the transformation of a writing program at a small Canadian university from a subdivision of the English department into a separate, interdisciplinary Centre for Academic Writing. Describes the origins of the program and recounts the processes of review and transition the program underwent. Notes how curricular and administrative/structural revisions were closely connected throughout the negotiations. (SR)

Descriptors: Educational Change, Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Politics of Education, Program Descriptions, Program Design, Program Development, Writing Across the Curriculum, Writing Laboratories

Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Descriptive

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Language: English

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