VOICES ON: The Future of Composition School Programs The Future of Composition Technology and Writing

How do you think the teaching of writing will change in the next few years? Deborah Gusman, George Washington University (DC) I would like to see composition take the lead in training students in the critical literacies-writing, reading, analytic and electronic technologies-that they will need to participate meaningfully in a global society in an information age. Margaret Marshall, University of Miami (FL) What I hope will be coming is that we will develop the ability to evaluate the range of work that we do that doesn't get printed as intellectual scholarship-and to take that work seriously. John Schilb, Indiana University, Bloomington (IN) I hope more people will be teaching students how to move from personal experience to cultural analysis and persuasive argument. Richard E. Miller, Rutgers University (NJ) The future? Bureaucracy! Steve Dilks, University of Missouri, Kansas City I think we'll discover that postmodernism is behind us, and that we're living in the age of mediation. Aron Keesbury, Boston University (MA) It seems to me that we'll be seeing a lot more writing about the sciences. Matthew Parfitt, Boston University (MA) I think we'll see a turn to historical texts and a renewed interest in the past. T. R. Johnson, Boston University (MA) One thing that I think will impact on the teaching of writing is the way that we negotiate the legacy of the rhet/comp tradition as it has developed over the past two or three generations.

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