I suspect Cathy may well be right about this --
> Hmm. I have feeling the results of the survey are skewed because
> the surveys only used Chairs of English as their sources. I bet a
> different picture would emerge if they surveyed a group higher up
> in the food chain of universities--a group that could see a larger
> picture of where "writing" courses are really being taught.
The survey was done for the purposes of English departments, really,
not for, um, folks interested in writing. And it's not a trivial
skew that it's concerned only with first year courses, either. And
mine, 20 years ago, was skewed in the same ways for the same
reasons. I think we need to be aware of this skewing, but the results
are still worth putting in the hopper as we think about the larger
issue.
-- Russ
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