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Made minor copyedits and added source to a claim on: English studies - 09/06/2018

Fixed location and date for installation of French Foreign Literature Chair on English Studies page - 09/06/2018

English Studies Edits
[The English major rose into prominence in American colleges briefly during the first half of the 1970s, only to see program enrollment rates turn to decline in the decade following.

-- https://files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/ED471740.pdf pg 5. 1869 - Introduction of the elective system. No evidence available that links the rise in prominence to Elective introduction. English was included in traditional classical literature.

((Locate information about the Elective system being introduced into American Higher Education --- ?))

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English Studies

In a recent review of the English Major program in America, the Association of Departments of English found that there were four common skills Universities offering English Major programs advertised growth in with the major offering. These four skills are critical thinking, reading, research, and writing.

Article evaluation
English studies


 * Needs additional sources
 * Missing information regarding English as a discipline in High School and Earlier
 * More course examples could be added i.e. no Poetry courses listed
 * More specific examples could be added under the Career Opportunities header
 * The article seems neutral. No issues with tone.
 * No mention of creative writing courses, potentially geared more towards an academia-based view of English (even though it's an academic page... shouldn't all aspects of potential English studies be featured?)
 * https://english.tamu.edu/english-without-borders?destination=node%2F76 -- Link is out of date results in an Error 404
 * The article is part of a wikiproject: WikiProject Literature
 * Rating is Start-Class
 * We haven't really talked too much about English studies as a whole in class yet.
 * It is interesting that the Talk page is talking about a push towards English Studies regarding Technology and Technical Communications.