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Eastern Illinois U
From: Terri Fredrick
Our second semester composition course follows the old model of “writing about literature”: the course is called Composition and Literature. Efforts by the WPA and Composition Committee to change this model have so far failed because (in my opinion): (1) There is no general education Introduction to Literature course (2) Almost all of our tenured and tenure-track faculty teach FYC at least once per year, and almost all of them are in literature and creative writing (3) We offer a junior level Advanced Composition course that tends to be (but is not always) WID based. The result of the Composition and Literature course is that some faculty try to choose only non-fiction essays from the (common) textbooks and teach a traditional composition course. Other faculty teach a traditional intro to lit course with the students writing only three papers per semester. The majority of faculty struggle to divide the course time 50–50 between composition and literature. |