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Generation(Al) Matters: Story, Lens, And Tone, Louise Weatherbee Phelps
Generation(Al) Matters: Story, Lens, And Tone, Louise Weatherbee Phelps
English Faculty Publications
This essay tells a story of how “generation” came to matter in rhetoric and composition/writing studies; analyzes and advocates for “generation” as a lens through which to examine disciplinary studies and activities; and considers how we can productively engage in generational relations between individuals and groups. It adopts a framework of “hospitality” (adapted from Richard and Janis Haswell) to develop a concept of “cross-generational relations” as an aspirational category. An ethic of hospitality is proposed to facilitate respectful, productive relations among generational groups, which recognize and enact interdependence but allow for a wide range of stances and strategies of interaction …
Introduction: The Politics, Praxis, And Performativity Of Teacher Neutrality, Daniel P. Richards
Introduction: The Politics, Praxis, And Performativity Of Teacher Neutrality, Daniel P. Richards
English Faculty Publications
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Full Disclosure / Now What?, Daniel P. Richards
Full Disclosure / Now What?, Daniel P. Richards
English Faculty Publications
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Liminal Practice In A Maturing Writing Department, Louise Wetherbee Phelps
Liminal Practice In A Maturing Writing Department, Louise Wetherbee Phelps
English Faculty Publications
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In Spring 2011 I was awarded a Fulbright Specialist Grant to "consult, collaborate, and inform" on the future of the Department of Rhetoric, Writing, and Communications at the University of Winnipeg, located in the city of Winnipeg in Manitoba, Canada. The Department of Rhetoric, Writing, and Communications department (hereafter, RWC) was a pioneer in writing instruction in Canada, where it became the first unit to establish itself independently as a department with a full-‐time faculty committed to both teaching and scholarship in writing and rhetoric. It remains a rare phenomenon on the Canadian higher education scene, where studies …