Talking back : senior scholars and their colleagues deliberate the past, present, and future of writing studies / edited by Norbert Elliot and Alice S. Horning.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Elliot, Norbert, editor.

Horning, Alice S., editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English language--Rhetoric--Study and teaching (Higher).

English language.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (421 pages) : illustrations

Place of Publication:

Logan, Utah : Utah State University Press, [2020]

Summary:

""Prestigious writing studies scholars deliberate on intellectual traditions, current practices, and directions for the future. Mid-career scholars react to each chapter with a thoughtful and measured response. Authors have three common experiences: responsibility for advancing a profession, research dedicated to advancing opportunities, and a sense of humility"--Provided by publisher"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

The professionalization and future of technical and professional communication / Jo Allen ; response: Turning towards social justice approaches to technical and professional communication / Michele F. Eble

Talking brought me here: sociolinguistics and African American life / Akuda Duku Anokye ; response: Still talking: embracing varieties, worlds Englishes, and the power of words / Patricia Friedrich

The times, they are a-changin': one assessment specialist's reflections on the evolution of research and policy in large-scale assessments at one assessment company / Douglas Baldwin ; response: You better start swimmin' or you'll sink like a stone: how assessment keeps changin' / Devon Tomasulo

Learning from the National Writing Project as a kindergarten-university partnership: talking back and forth / Judy Buchanan and Richard Sterling ; response: Talking back and forth between memory and legacy in the National Writing Project /Anne Elrod Whitney

Intimate machines: cultivating wisdom in elder gardens / Hugh Burns ; response: Toward a research agenda for digital intimacy / Ann N. Amicucci

Assessment as a by-product of ongoing research: identifying, describing, and nourishing a campus culture of teaching and learning / William Condon ; Reponse: From assessment as research to empirical education / Mike Truong

A Bedford story: taking the measure of a publisher / Joan Feinberg ; response: On being useful / Leasa Burton

Framing and facing histories of rhetoric and composition: composition-rhetoric in the time of the Dartmouth conference / Cinthia Gannett and John C. Brereton ; response: History has moved through us / Katherine E. Tirabassi

Wisdom: a meditative quilt / Eli Goldblatt ; response: Doors, walls, and the paradox of not knowing / Jessica Restaino ; response: Legacy and invitation / Paige Davis Arrington, with Ann E. Berthoff

"Bottomless mysteries" on the margins: a dream interview / Janis Haswell and Richard Haswell ; response: Toward open exchanges in a networked world / Stacey Pigg

Aging through the thirty-year rise of professionalized writing administration / Douglas Hesse ; response: Embracing the accidental trajectory / Eliana Schonberg

Reading old and new: an autobiography and an argument / Alice S. Horning ; response: Talking back (to Alice S. Horning) / Ellen Carillo

Rewriting the language(s) of language differences in writing / Min-Zhan Lu and Bruce Horner ; response: Not trajectory but translation: talking back with and to Min-Zhan Lu and Bruce Horner / Dylan B. Dryer

Starting from scratch: practicing and teaching the work of words / Donald McQuade ; response: The goal of teaching is to become obsolete / Eric Heltzel

Rethinking basic writing: reflections on language, education, and opportunity / Rebecca Williams Mlynarczyk ; response: A reckoning for basic writing / Sean Molloy

Contact zones across the disciplines / Les Perelman ; response: Writing research across disciplinary boundaries / Suzanne Lane

Identity work: continuities and transformations in the senior years / Louise Wetherbee Phelps ; response: Reading identity work through a disability lens: care, bodies, and time / Elisabeth L. Miller

Raciolinguistics and the "Mis-education of the negro"

and you too: race, language, and the elder in "post-racial" America / Geneva Smitherman ; response: "I love my African American language. And Yours": toward a raciolinguistic vision in writing studies / Shenika Hankerson

Valuing new approaches for tenure and promotion for WAC/WID Scholar/Administrators: advice for higher education and the writing studies community / Martha A. Townsend ; response: Community: a response to Marty Townsend / Michael Rifenburg

Mode meshing: before the new world was new / Victor Villanueva ; response: Becoming in the new world / Asao B. Inoue

Fifty years of curriculum changes: looking in and looking out in college writing classes / Edward M. White ; response: Looking back to move forward: a response to Edward M. White / Sherry Rankins-Robertson

The composing of seniors: navigating needs, tasks, and social practices / Kathleen Blake Yancey ; response: The composing of the 41%: a response to Kathleen Blake Yancey / Jennifer Enoch.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781607329763

160732976X

OCLC:

1137737673