... Review 50 –51: 257 -62. Graduate Internship Programs in the Humanities: A Report from One University Deborah Carlin It came as a disappointment, though perhaps not as a surprise, that only a handful of people attended the December 2000 Modern Language Associa- tion (MLA) panel on graduate...

..., outside of higher education. Graduate programs must find ways to stress these transferable skills and do better at preparing students for nonprofessorial jobs within and outside academia—including taking new approaches to the dissertation requirement. Humanists who take refuge in the seemingly high-minded...

... frameworks. The authors also discuss the role of terminal master's programs in English and the need for graduate writing instruction. © 2011 by Duke University Press 2011 Works Cited Ackerman John . 1995 . “ Postscript: The Assimilation and Tactics of Nate .” In Genre Knowledge...

...Kerri Hauman; Stacy Kastner; Alison Witte This article reports on the findings of a pilot study conducted in 2011 that investigated technology-pedagogy preparation for graduate students in PhD-granting rhetoric and composition programs in the United States. The study aimed to answer two questions...

... . October 2011 , “ No More Plan B: A Very Modest Proposal for Graduate Programs in History .” Perspectives on History , October . www.historians.org/perspectives/issues/2011/1110/1110pre1.cfm . Menand Louis . 2010 . The Marketplace of Ideas . New York : Norton . MLA Office of Research...

... without adequate resources, and I examine the ways in which our program posed a threat to the economics of the university. I conclude that efforts to raise program quality and produce higher-quality graduates are unlikely to succeed without fundamental changes to the economy of education generally...

...Elizabeth Brewer; Nora McCook; Kay Halasek This article provides a critical narrative of a flipped professional development program for experienced graduate teaching associates teaching a second-year writing course. We use a narrative approach to demonstrate that decisions about how and what...

... of the University . Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press . Downing David . 2014 . “ Don’t Shrink .” Inside Higher Ed , January 28 . www.insidehighered.com/views/2014/01/28/essay-calls-humanities-graduate-programs-resist-calls-shrink#sthash.cUfex8fF.dpbs . Indiana University of Pennsylvania...

...Janet Alsup; Tammy Conard-Salvo; Scott J. Peters In this article, an English education professor, a university writing center administrator, and a recent graduate of an undergraduate English education program discuss the role peer tutoring might play in enhancing the education of preservice...

...Joseph Turner This article argues that English studies departments should implement training programs in oral delivery strategies for graduate students seeking tenure-track employment. A sample of a thirteen-week training program, modeled on elements of classical rhetorical pedagogy, is offered...

... then we must also face the consequences of that insistence. What are those consequences? 1. We must stop overproducing PhDs. If we believe in the vocational nature of graduate study in the humanities, it is ethically offensive to keep bringing large numbers of people into graduate programs...

... informed mentors in his program. Because Semenza retains a detailed memory of his own job market travails, he is ideally situated for the task of guiding, advising, warning, and mentoring graduate students determined to complete their degree and get a position worthy of the years of time...

... constructed for composition over the past twenty years with our presses and 358 Pedagogy journals and conferences and graduate programs has had much impact on who actually teaches fi rst-year and basic writers across the country or on how they do it. To the contrary, recent surveys by the Coalition...

...Octavia Davis Upon entering college composition courses, students often report a dislike for writing. Because researchers report that writing anxiety may be linked to high-stakes writing exams, a study of graduates of New York high schools was conducted to investigate whether the state's Regents...

... graduate programs. Her position was expressed in a note buried at the back of the report: [Patricia] Carter requested that, as one of only two graduate students present and as the only person of color on the committee, her abstention and the reasons for it be recorded. She noted first that calling...

... Are They Failing? ” New York Review of Books , November 24 . www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/2011/nov/24/our-universities-why-are-they-failing/?page=1 . Grafton Anthony Grossman Jim . 2011 . “ No More Plan B: A Very Modest Proposal for Graduate Programs in History .” Perspectives on History...

...Mark C. Long © 2002 Duke University Press 2002 First Day to Final Grade: A Graduate Student's Guide to Teaching . By Anne Curzan and Lisa Damour. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press,2000. Irmscher, William F. 1978 . “The Freshman Composition Program at the University...

... and strategies for teaching literature. Even graduate students interested in literature pedagogy may find their departments unresponsive. True, most English graduate programs do provide their students with the opportunity to teach undergraduate literature courses at some point. But having a chance to teach...

... ). Cluster on Graduate Education in English Studies Journal Space 2.0 Teaching through Editing Augusta Rohrbach Most graduate programs continue to groom their students to produce single-­ author studies meant to eventually find their way to an expanding audience through conference...

... Atwell in her essay “Graduate Programs for Two-Year- College Faculty: History and Future Directions,” envision this collection in part as evidence of such “leading edge” work in higher education. As a recently tenured English faculty member at Elgin Community College in Elgin, Illinois, I too am...