"The Undergraduate Writing Major: What Is It? What Should It Be?" by Deborah Balzhiser and Susan H. McLeod

    This article explained in depth how the writing major is changing and progressing, and questioning which direction it should go. While English majors have previously been, for the most part, limited to only the areas of Literature and Creative writing, the CCCC has noted how recently many universities have begun to offer other majors that focus more on rhetoric and composition, or professional writing. The article also explained how when many incoming freshman to college aren't very familiar with he terms "rhetoric" and "composition", but are a lot more used to just the word "writing". I know this was exactly the case for me. In high school, though I took the class AP Language and Composition, and one of our main goals was to use an array of "rhetorical devices" in our essays, I finished that class not really knowing what either of those words meant. Only until now, because of this class, do I have an actual understanding of rhetoric and composition.
    I also liked the quote, "As a relatively new discipline in the university, composition/rhetoric is still defining itself as a field; it is not surprising, then, that our major is also still defining itself." I felt this completely addressed how new the major is, and how its definition is still being created.