Williams pg 86-97

As Williams states on pg 87, "A hot job market and institutional validity bestowed by the growing doctoral programs made the future look bright, and the confidence of new rhetoricians soared. One consequence of this confidence was that composition specialists on many campuses began efforts to divorce writing programs from English departments." As the majority of our classmates are going into teaching, I am curious, as a WRTC major, what do you find is the difference in teaching literature and composition/rhetoric? When you teach (if you teach) these two, have you learned to teach them separetely? What lessons could you use in your classroom to demonstrate the difference in the two subjects? If you feel they should not be separated when teaching please explain why?

As a WRTC major my focus is on editing and writing. Many of my courses are also grounded in theory of rhetoric in many different fields such as the public sphere and digital rhetoric. I would expect as an Engligh major that the majority of those courses would perhaps be on reading literature and examinging meaning; followed by many papers about the novels read in class. However, within my major the literature I examine is mostly essays by theorists about what our overall course is about. I would expect the two to be taught separetely, but, I would also expect certain aspects to remain the same. Some of these aspects may include: the ability to write a paper, to analyze text, and to be efficent in grammer.