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- Date: Thu, 31 Dec 1992 12:05:44 -0700
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- From: "David E. Schwalm" <IACDES@ASUACAD.BITNET>
- Subject: Re: High school/college comp cou
- In-Reply-To: note of 12/31/92 09:53
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- The most effective linkage between high school and colleges WRT writing has
- been the National Writing Project, which has well over 100 sites all over the
- country. There was a site in Austin, but it was run out of the Education
- department or unit. In Texas there were sites in Austin, Lubbock, El Paso,
- Commerce/Tyler, Dallas/Fort Worth, San Antonio, and Houston. I think the
- Austin site went belly up when the director (Susan H...can't remember the last
- name) was denied tenure. We have three National Writing Project sites in
- Arizona, and all three function without recognition and without much support
- from the English departments in their universities. The Greater Phoenix Area
- Writing Project has been operating at ASU for almost 15 years, and most of my
- colleagues don't even know that it exists. I started the NWP site in El Paso
- in 83 and ran it for three years with minimal support from the department. If
- you hear just a hint of bitterness, you hear accurately. Many NWP sites are in
- education colleges or departments because of massive disinterest in English
- departments. And most that are in English departments receive little support
- or recognition. It's pedagogy and the site is always run by those English ed
- or rhet/comp types. The GPAWP (pronounced ga-pop) is viewed around here as
- "Bob Shafer's thing." Grrrrr.
-
- -- David E. Schwalm, Assoc. Provost for Academic Programs
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