Tim Peeples, Paula Rosinski, and Michael Strickland’s article, “Chronos and Kairos, Strategies and Tactics: The Case of Constructing ÂÒÂ×ÊÓƵ’s Professional Writing and Rhetoric Concentration,” is one of a few articles chosen for a special edition in Composition Studies focusing on premier undergraduate majors in writing and rhetoric.
Editors for the special edition accepted only a handful of article-length pieces, one of which was the piece by Peeples, Rosinski, and Strickland that focuses on the building of ÂÒÂ×ÊÓƵ’s English major concentration in Professional Writing and Rhetoric (see program info at www.elon.edu/pwr). The special edition also includes a number of short two- to three-page writing major summaries, which together give readers of the journal a broad picture of the state of undergraduate writing and rhetoric programs across the nation.
“Chronos and Kairos, Strategies and Tactics” is a theory-building piece that brings value to readers – including those outside writing and rhetoric studies – by constructing a framework that helps understand how programs develop. The article draws on classical studies in rhetoric, as well as contemporary cultural theory, to theorize program development in two kinds of time – chronos and kairos – requiring two kinds of planning and action – strategic and tactical.