The Arguments Against Reconfiguring Composition
In the fall of 2002 the English department at Texas Tech will make significant changes in how first-year composition is managed (see Reconfiguring Composition for the Fall 2002).
Essentially, the reconfiguration will
reduce class meetings to one 90-minute meeting a week,
increase class size to 35,
increase turned-in assignments to about 3 a week,
require all important student documents to be submitted and evaluated online, and
to submit all important evaluation to a grading pool. Each document will be read twice in a "blind" evaluation process.