Hello,
By way of clarification, I am sure that the survey is skewed in many ways,
as all surveys are. I should however point out that on many occasions chairs
sent and/or included university handbooks and reports on writing centres and
in house writing courses such as Writing for Business. In addition, more
than half of the schools had multiple respondents including directors of
writing programs/centres and those overseeing literature options. Also, it
is probably worth noting that the survey was of First Year English Programs
in general and not First Year Writing Programs specifically, though the
latter was an important part of the whole.
Thanks,
Patrick
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From: CASLL/Inkshed [mailto:[log in to unmask]]On Behalf Of Catherine F. Schryer
Sent: Wednesday, September 13, 2000 1:32 PM
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Subject: Re: Canadian 1st-year writing courses
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.
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From: Robert Irish <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Wednesday, September 13, 2000 3:29 PM
Subject: Re: Canadian 1st-year writing courses
> I hadn't noticed the absence of UT, but Cathy might be surprised how
> little U of T's results affect the overall numbers. If the chair at UT
> had responded, no doubt he would have forgotten to mention the monster
> course in Engineering (it really is well outside English's peripheral
> vision most of the time) and reported that their first year comp. course
> (and only one) has a very modest max enrollment of 30. Right in keeping
> with the national average.
>
> Rob Irish
>
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