Journal Entry 5

In the book English studies, several disputes occur.  In the argument "THe Division, Integration, and Transfer of Knowledge," David Easton argues, "With increasing acceleration in the twentieth century, the social sciences and the humanities began to specialize with a vengeance so that today the basic disciplines have not only clearly identified themselves, but have subdivided internally into many subfields; often, even within these, specialization continues apace."  

I think what Easton argues is that with all the new technology, teaching styles and constantly updated information that appears in the twentieth century can not keep up with everything.  In the English department this could mean that with all the new information and techniques its hard to teach students exactly what is best for them.  So instead they suggest the "Coverage Model" which is dividing up literature into three periods, genres and authors.  This is a good and bad thing.  With the literature being covered, but not in any depth people believe that there is to much information, to broad.  In order to experience the full affect of all these historical literature events you need to break them down and have a class on each one.  Not compress all of these events into one class and just hit the basic topics.  

I think what the author wants is all these subcategories need to be taught in detail.  With the constant new knowledge and appreciation for literature.  We need to take the time and study what each of these ideas are.  We shouldn't just rush through everything, we need to take time and learn about authors, teaching styles and writings