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The text reconstructs the intellectual arguments that enabled the creation of a Department and Major, emphasizing differentiation from competing disciplinary spaces and a positive disciplinary definition grounded in writing’s object and purposes. 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This profile traces the intellectual arguments that created space for a Department and Major in Writing Studies at UMD. Those arguments included a differentiation from the contested spaces of other disciplines (literary studies and communication studies) as well as from the prior disciplinary identity of the Department (composition studies) . These arguments also included a positive identification of Writing Studies as one of the disciplines defined by its object (akin to American Studies , Women’s Studies , etc . ) . The object of Writing Studies at UMD is writing, defined as a practice, a tool for cognition and social action, and a force for sociocultural change. These arguments are manifest in the core curriculum of the major ( 16 credits of courses across all four years of the students ’coursework) .  \nIntroduction  \nThis essay profiles the Department of Writing Studies at the University of Minnesota Duluth to explicate the arguments for a major in Writing Studies . In one sense, it picks up work done in the forthcoming What We Are Becoming: Developments in Undergraduate Writing Majors (edited by Moriarty and Giberson) . The title intentionally echoes the title of an essay by Charles Bazerman (“The Case for Writing Studies as a Major Field of Study”), from which this project took a great deal of direction. Therein, Bazerman defines Writing Studies by stipulation, claiming that “Writing Studies is the study of writing—its production, its circulation, its uses , its role in the development of individuals , societies and cultures” (32) . As such, Writing Studies is a discipline structured like other disciplines with similar titles: American Studies , Women’s Studies , Library & Information Studies , Communication Studies , Cultural Studies—with Writing as the object.  \nIn other essays , Bazerman defines Writing Studies by differentiation. Within the larger umbrella of English studies , for example, Bazerman differentiates writing studies from literary studies: Writing studies differs from literary studies in part because it does not engage “the traditional historical work of rhetorical and literary studies in recovering, editing, and interpreting major texts” (as well as new additions to the canon) (“Theories of the Middle Range in Historical Studies of Writing Practice” 298) . It may be helpful to think through “Writing Studies” as a broad term; in paraphrasing it to colleagues , I often appeal to the distinction between literary studies and literacy studies . Literacy studies entails reading and writing activities of great variety—multiple genres , multiple contexts—and so is clearly distinct from literary studies , which keeps its eye on a narrower range of writing and reading activities . Further, because we are interested in a broader array of writing and reading activities , we can focus on a greater variety of sociocultural effects of writing. We can be interested in the ways that a variety of writing forms sustain institutions , generate communities , and enable (or domesticate) individual and social cognition. Bazerman is not the only scholar to advance claims for the disciplinarity of Writing Studies , but at Minnesota Duluth, we found these claims particularly persuasive.  \nThe arguments that Bazerman advances in these essays , however, were transformed when planted in the soil of the Department of Writing Studies at UMD. The intellectual resources and curricular raw material available in that context engaged the core claims of Bazerman’s arguments in uniquely local ways . What emerges , then, is something new and different—a curricular innovation.  \nThis profile traces the intellectual arguments that created space for a Depa","cbCairgxB1Z3i2ix","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCairgxB1Z3i2ix","pdf",346801,11,"English","# Introduction\n## Purpose and disciplinary framing\n## Differentiation from related fields\n## Local transformation into a new department\n## Core curriculum and course structure\n## Course table (Table One)","[{\"question\":\"What is the core disciplinary focus of Writing Studies in this profile?\",\"answer\":\"Writing Studies is defined by its object: writing as a practice, a tool for cognition and social action, and a force for sociocultural change.\"},{\"question\":\"How does the essay distinguish Writing Studies from literary and communication studies?\",\"answer\":\"It emphasizes that Writing Studies does not primarily recover and interpret major texts as literary studies does, and it separates itself by concentrating on broader writing and reading activities and their sociocultural effects.\"},{\"question\":\"How are the major’s claims reflected in the curriculum?\",\"answer\":\"The profile says the arguments appear in a required core curriculum totaling 16 credits across all four years, including courses that address multiple perspectives on writing and culminate in portfolio and new media writing classes.\"}]","The Case for a Major in Writing Studies - Spring 2010 - Composition Forum | PDF",1792087518,17]