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The article examines how diverse majors and their institutional contexts raise more questions than answers, leaving the disciplinary “turn” open. 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Blake Scott and Lisa Meloncon  \nAbstract: How we argue for, create, and mobilize around writing and rhetoric majors will continue to shape our field’s disciplinarity in crucial ways, including our recognition, resources, and relationships. The range of such majors and their institutional contexts, and the disparate field-level efforts to track and build consensus around them, generate more questions than answers, leaving the turn to disciplinarity an open question. This article proposes techne—rhetoric as the productive art of enacting knowledge—as a conceptual tool for identifying connections across writing and rhetoric majors. Such points of connection can, in turn, serve to guide efforts for supporting and building shared resources for majors, and to enable a contingent and adaptive understanding of our field’s identity and (potential) disciplinarity.  \nThe field of Rhetoric and Composition’s (RC’s) persisting struggle over defining a disciplinary identity has increasingly shaped calls for and forms of writing and rhetoric majors of various types. At the same time, how we argue for, create, categorize, support, build consensus around, and produce scholarship about writing and rhetoric majors will continue to shape our disciplinary identity (or identities) in crucial ways. It is this latter direction of influence that this article will explore. The ongoing growth of the major has brought the field more recognition at the institutional level and beyond, and such majors have also shaped our resources and relationships. Further, all of these influences have increasingly shaped our identities, including how we understand our institutional, academic, and societal roles.  \nIn what follows, we review the growth of writing majors and field-level efforts to support them, foregrounding how these developments have raised questions about disciplinarity and how we understand this term. In addition to the burgeoning scholarship about writing and rhetoric majors, some of which explicitly takes up disciplinary concerns and influences, we draw on our experiential knowledge as faculty who have built and revised, directed, and consulted with colleagues around the field about writing and rhetoric majors.  \nAlthough we recognize the influence of writing and rhetoric majors, we want to keep open the question of whether our majors should advance a consensus-driven notion of disciplinarity that, in turn, can delimit what our majors look like. In Rhetoric and Composition as Intellectual Work, Gary A. Olson and others compellingly argue that Rhetoric and Composition has already established itself as a vibrant and diverse intellectual discipline with strands of scholarship that extend beyond the teaching of writing (Olson, “Preface” xii); at the same time, Olson argues that RC has not yet “come to terms with our intellectual diversity” and remains engaged in a “hegemonic struggle” over its scope, direction, and identity (“Death” 24, 30-31) . Given this struggle, and insofar as some notions of disciplinarity imply consensus and even standardization, the range and diversity of writing and rhetoric majors alone might complicate a new type of disciplinary turn for the field.  \nTo further contribute to this discussion about the major’s influence, we follow our history with a proposal for using techne—rhetoric as the productive art of enacting knowledge—as a conceptual tool for identifying connections across writing and rhetoric majors. These points of connection can, in turn, serve to guide field-level efforts for supporting and building shared resources for majors, and to enable a contingent and adaptive understanding of our field’s identity and (potential) disciplinarity. Collectively understanding our majors around the teaching of techne ","cbCaikz7xSi7w7PA","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaikz7xSi7w7PA","pdf",150597,14,"English","# Composition Forum 35, Spring 2017\n## Writing and Rhetoric Majors, Disciplinarity, and Techne\n## Abstract\n## Majors and Disciplinarity\n### Emergence and Growth of Majors: A Movement of Diversity","[{\"question\":\"What does the article argue about writing and rhetoric majors and disciplinarity?\",\"answer\":\"It argues that advocacy, creation, categorization, and scholarship around these majors significantly shape the field’s disciplinary identity in crucial ways. The growth of the major increases institutional recognition while also influencing resources, relationships, and roles.\"},{\"question\":\"Why does the article introduce techne as a conceptual tool?\",\"answer\":\"It proposes techne—rhetoric as the productive art of enacting knowledge—as a way to identify connections across writing and rhetoric majors. Those connections can guide support efforts and help build shared resources.\"},{\"question\":\"How does the article position disciplinarity and consensus within the field?\",\"answer\":\"It keeps open whether majors should advance a consensus-driven notion of disciplinarity that could delimit what majors look like. It also notes ongoing struggle over the field’s disciplinary identity and scope.\"}]","Writing and Rhetoric Majors, Disciplinarity, and Techne | PDF",1792087864,35]