In summer of 1987, Donald Stewart began a survey of English departments, attempting to uncover changes in curriculum that had resulted from changes in discipline. Stewart reported results of his survey in a 1989 CCC article, is an English Major, and What Should It Be? Stewart acknowledged limitations of his study: he was considering only 194 colleges, and only 108 of these actually responded to his request for information beyond catalogue description. Furthermore, many of respondents indicated that their curriculum was constantly being revised. Still, survey provided an important window on English major, particularly with regard to options in creative writing and rhetoric/composition. Stewart found that only 74 of 194 colleges surveyed, or 38%, offered students chance to specialize in some aspect of writing in addition to literature. The majority of English departments surveyed by Stewart (55%) offered only literature emphases, with optional electives from other areas of English. Based on his findings, he made a call for the establishment, in all departments, of options in creative writing, linguistics (where departments of linguistics do not exist), and composition and (193). In our survey of writing concentrations or majors within English departments, we wanted to follow up on Stewart's survey to see if more undergraduates were able to specialize in composition and rhetoric.1 The initial impetus for this survey came from an e-mail discussion among writing program directors about concentrations in writing and rhetoric being offered in their departments. After several writing program directors informally announced new courses and writing concentrations, we thought a review of these changes

Karen Burke LeFevre, Invention as a Social Act CCCC Studies in Writing and Rhetoric. Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 1987. 173 pages. Carol P. Hartzog, Composition and the Academy: A Study of Writing Program Administration. New York: MLA, 1986. xviii + 166 pages. Walter H. Beale, A Pragmatic Theory of Rhetoric. Carbondale: Southern Illinois Press, 1987. 171 pages. James A. Berlin, Writing Instruction in Nineteenth‐Century American Colleges. Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 1984.92 pages.