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Review Of Forming The Collective Mind: A Contextual Exploration Of Large-Scale Collaborative Writing In Industry, By Geoffrey A. Cross., Barbara Couture
Review Of Forming The Collective Mind: A Contextual Exploration Of Large-Scale Collaborative Writing In Industry, By Geoffrey A. Cross., Barbara Couture
Department of English: Faculty Publications
We have come a long way in studies of writers in professional settings, learning with each exploration how these behaviors differ from and relate to the processes we have taught beginning writers in our classroom. Studies of these processes have become increasingly more sophisticated since Selzer (1983) treated researchers to his intriguing account of a technical writer’s composing processes. Next, we saw case studies of writers designed to produce real-world writing contexts for students—such as Cases for Technical and Professional Writing, which I coauthored with Rymer Goldstein (1985)—and then more detailed descriptions of how writers learn to become proficient communicators …
Review Of Perspectives On American Book History: Artifacts And Commentary, Melissa J. Homestead
Review Of Perspectives On American Book History: Artifacts And Commentary, Melissa J. Homestead
Department of English: Faculty Publications
Perhaps the best place to begin a review of this excellent new book is where the editors themselves begin in their preface, by defining what the book is not. Namely, it is not "a reader that merely reprint[s] scholarly essays" on the history of the book (that niche has recently been filled by The Book History Reader [2002] from Routledge), nor is it "a definitive history of the book and print culture in North America" (Cambridge University Press and the American Antiquarian Society aim to fill that niche with the multi-volume History of the Book in America, currently in …
The Ethics Of Representation, Robert Brooke, Amy M. Goodburn
The Ethics Of Representation, Robert Brooke, Amy M. Goodburn
Department of English: Faculty Publications
Editors' Introduction to a special issue of Writing on the Edge: A Journal About Writing and Teaching Writing
We compositionists work in a field where questions about the ethics of representation confront us endlessly. In our teaching, in our research, in our service, we regularly must represent students, colleagues, and community members to others, often across great divides in power. In response, across our profession there's been a growing sense of worry, and growing scholarship on the importance of ethical practices. In February 2001, CCC published the "Guidelines for the Ethical Treatment of Students and Student Writing in Composition Studies" …
Truth In Timbre: Morrison's Extension Of Slave Narrative Song In Beloved, Peter J. Capuano
Truth In Timbre: Morrison's Extension Of Slave Narrative Song In Beloved, Peter J. Capuano
Department of English: Faculty Publications
In her 1987 novel Beloved, Toni Morrison acknowledges and even borrows from Frederick Douglass's 1845 Narrative, but she also makes a resolute break from its rhetorical and political objectives. Historical differences between the audiences of Douglass and Morrison account for a large part of their contrasting styles, particularly in their treatment of slave song. Since Douglass composed his Narrative as a fugitive slave in the early 1840s, he was aware of his principally white audience and also of his precarious task of presenting an attack not on white America, but on the institution of slavery itself. Douglass's judicious …
Reconciling Private Lives And Public Rhetoric: What’S At Stake?, Barbara Couture
Reconciling Private Lives And Public Rhetoric: What’S At Stake?, Barbara Couture
Department of English: Faculty Publications
“I tried it, but I didn’t inhale.” It is hard not to smile at the irony of former president Bill Clinton’s wan attempt to place himself on the right side of the law in public when disclosing his private use of marijuana. And the irony is doubly inflected for us, knowing—as we do now—about his duplicitous public admission that he never “had sex” with Monica Lewinsky. Perhaps there is no figure in American life for whom private life and public rhetoric are more intertwined than for our nation’s president. This consequence of public life in America’s most visible office is …
Behind The Veil? Catharine Sedgwick And Anonymous Publication, Melissa J. Homestead
Behind The Veil? Catharine Sedgwick And Anonymous Publication, Melissa J. Homestead
Department of English: Faculty Publications
The idea that women in past centuries withheld their names because they experienced their own authorship as shameful or scandalous has achieved the character of received wisdom. Ask a typical lower-level undergraduate what she knows about women's authorship in the United States during the years of Sedgwick's greatest productivity (the 1820s through the 1840s), and she will tell you: "It wasn't considered respectable for women to write back then, so they didn't give their names, or they took male pseudonyms." I argue instead that Sedgwick's anonymity was a market strategy for constructing an authorial persona rather than an absence of …
Toward A Symbiosis Of Ecology And Justice: Water And Land Conflicts In Frank Waters, Johns Nichols, And Jimmy Santiago Baca, Thomas Lynch
Toward A Symbiosis Of Ecology And Justice: Water And Land Conflicts In Frank Waters, Johns Nichols, And Jimmy Santiago Baca, Thomas Lynch
Department of English: Faculty Publications
The literary form that dominates writing, and thinking, in the American West is what has become known, definitively, as "the Western." The all-too-familiar narrative describes the advance of Anglo-Saxon pioneers into a primitive and untamed West, spreading the forces of civilization in their wake. A countertradition, however, is prevalent in the Southwest. What we might suitably call "the Southwestern" describes the incursion of an aggressive foreign culture into an already settled region. In this narrative, the conflict is not over how to impose culture and tame and settle the land, but how to protect the culture that already exists and …
Modernist Space: Willa Cather’S Environmental Imagination In Context, Guy J. Reynolds
Modernist Space: Willa Cather’S Environmental Imagination In Context, Guy J. Reynolds
Department of English: Faculty Publications
One of the things that Cather’s writing teaches us is that space, especially “natural” space, is always mediated, always shaped. Cather’s own framing of nature was informed by some very specific, historically particular ideas. The modernity of Cather’s environmental imagination is illustrated by a comparison between her fictionalization of American spaces and Frank Lloyd Wright’s architectural formation of space. An “environmental imagination” is at once an imagination of the environment and an imagination formed or created by the environment. Cather worked repeatedly toward this doubled state, finding a heightened, mystical state-of-being when we are both formed by and in mastery …
The Value And Role Of Community-Writing Practices, Amy M. Goodburn
The Value And Role Of Community-Writing Practices, Amy M. Goodburn
Department of English: Faculty Publications
Review of Writing Partnerships: Service-Learning in Composition. By Thomas Deans. Urbana, Ill.: National Council of Teachers of English, 2000.
Writing Partnerships is a useful resource for teachers and administrators already engaged in conceptualizing how community-writing initiatives might complement and transform their goals for writing classrooms. While it does not offer ready arguments in support of “commonsense” relationships between writing instruction and social action, Deans’s book does provide fertile ground for future conversations about the value and role of community-writing practices in composition studies and in English departments more generally.
Girls’ Literacy In The Progressive Era: Female And American Indian Identity At The Genoa Indian School, Amy M. Goodburn
Girls’ Literacy In The Progressive Era: Female And American Indian Identity At The Genoa Indian School, Amy M. Goodburn
Department of English: Faculty Publications
The Progressive Era (1870–1930) is marked by several forces that shaped U.S. girls’ literacies, including the success of the common school movement (and coeducational high schools in particular), the progressive reform movement (especially in terms of progressive educators), new technologies of literacy and print media, women’s leadership in social welfare legislation, and the proliferation of women’s clubs and civic groups. All these forces shaped girls’ reading and writ ing practices in both constraining and empowering ways. In this chapter, I examine girls’ literacy experiences in the Progressive Era within the context of one group of American Indian girls who attended …
The Ethics Of Research And The Cccc Ethical Guidelines: An Electronic Interview With Ellen Cushman And Peter Mortensen, Robert Brooke, Amy M. Goodburn, Ellen Cushman, Peter Mortensen
The Ethics Of Research And The Cccc Ethical Guidelines: An Electronic Interview With Ellen Cushman And Peter Mortensen, Robert Brooke, Amy M. Goodburn, Ellen Cushman, Peter Mortensen
Department of English: Faculty Publications
Presents an e-interview in which two leading scholars on research ethics discuss the current state of ethical research in relation to the 2001 Conference on College Composition and Communication "Guidelines for the Ethical Treatment of Students and Student Writing in Composition Studies."
References For The Private, The Public, And The Published: Reconciling Private Lives And Public Rhetoric, Barbara Couture, Thomas Kent
References For The Private, The Public, And The Published: Reconciling Private Lives And Public Rhetoric, Barbara Couture, Thomas Kent
Department of English: Faculty Publications
Approximately 325 bibliographical references (15 pages) on public intrusions into private lives.
Review Of Ezra Greenspan, George Palmer Putnam (2000) And The House Of Putnam (2002), Melissa J. Homestead
Review Of Ezra Greenspan, George Palmer Putnam (2000) And The House Of Putnam (2002), Melissa J. Homestead
Department of English: Faculty Publications
Ezra Greenspan's biography of nineteenth-century American publisher George Palmer Putnam should be of great interest to many scholars of nineteenth-century American literature, whether or not they specialize in publishing history. Among the American authors and literary figures who made significant appearances in Putnam's personal and professional life and thus in this biography were: William Cullen Bryant, James and Susan Fenimore Cooper, Herman Melville, Edgar Allan Poe, Margaret Fuller, Catharine Maria Sedgwick, Ralph Waldo Emerson, James Russell Lowell, Sophia Peabody and Nathaniel Hawthorne, Elizabeth Palmer Peabody, Caroline Kirkland, William Gilmore Simms, James Hall, John Greenleaf Whittier, Henry David Thoreau, and Susan …
Chronological Bibliography Of The Works Of Catharine Maria Sedgwick, Lucinda L. Damon-Bach, Allison J. Roepsch, Melissa J. Homestead
Chronological Bibliography Of The Works Of Catharine Maria Sedgwick, Lucinda L. Damon-Bach, Allison J. Roepsch, Melissa J. Homestead
Department of English: Faculty Publications
This two-part bibliography has been built by consulting the Bibliography of American Literature (BAL) and the bibliographies compiled by Sister Mary Michael Welsh ("Catharine Maria Sedgwick: Her Position in the Literature and Thought of Her Time up to 1860," Ph.D. diss., Catholic Universiry of America, 1937) and Richard Banus Gidez ("A Study of the Works of Catharine Maria Sedgwick," Ph.D. diss., Ohio State Universiry, 1958); library cataloging records; and the personal records of Lucinda Damon-Bach and Melissa J. Homestead. In most cases, entries have been confirmed through books, periodicals, photocopies, or microfilm received through interlibrary loan. We were not able …