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Review Of Composition In The Age Of Austerity, Nancy Welch And Tony Scott, Eds., David M. Grant
Review Of Composition In The Age Of Austerity, Nancy Welch And Tony Scott, Eds., David M. Grant
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This review surveys the edited collection Composition in the Age of Austerity, which works at key intersections of interest to readers of Kairos: the discussion between critical and new materialisms, the debates about economics and digital humanities, and the 2016 election's significance for our future as teachers, scholars, and champions of justice. The navigation bar at the top of each page in this webtext allows for reading in any particular order. The tabs of the navigation bar reflect my own reading across the sections and chapters included in the collection, offering my thinking with and against the premises …
A Vitalist Perspective On Nature Journals, David M. Grant
A Vitalist Perspective On Nature Journals, David M. Grant
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This paper argues that journals do more than simply record individual observations. Using a vitalist conception of writing – one that explicitly acknowledges writing as an ecological act – journals are formed from what literacy theorists call the “scene” of writing. This paper forwards an expanded conception of journal writing, the pedagogical uses of journals, and ways we see all writing, not just journals, as participations with the natural world.