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Activist WPA, The Changing Stories About Writing and Writers / Linda Adler-Kassner.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Adler-Kassner, Linda.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Writing centers--Administration.
- Writing centers.
- Report writing--Study and teaching (Higher)--United States.
- Report writing.
- English language--Rhetoric--Study and teaching--United States.
- English language.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (224 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Utah State University, University Libraries 2008
- Logan, Utah : Utah State University Press, 2008.
- Language Note:
- English
- System Details:
- text file
- Summary:
- One wonders if there is any academic field that doesn't suffer from the way it is portrayed by the media, by politicians, by pundits and other publics. How well scholars in a discipline articulate their own definition can influence not only issues of image but the very success of the discipline in serving students and its other constituencies. The Activist WPA is an effort to address this range of issues for the field of English composition in the age of the Spellings Commission and the No Child Left Behind Act. Drawing on recent developments in framing theory and the resur
- Contents:
- Working from a point of principle
- Looking backward
- Framing the public imagination
- Changing conversations about writing and writers: working through a process
- Taking action to change stories
- Working from my own points of principle : Tikkun Olam, prophetic pragmatism, and writing program administration.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 187-203) and index.
- Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International. CC-BY-NC-ND 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/legalcode
- Description based on print version record.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 9780874217001
- 0874217008
- OCLC:
- 609416203
- Access Restriction:
- Open access Unrestricted online access
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