[CBW_Exec] [wcenter] New Book on Basic Writing

[Shannon Carter]

Yahoo!! Congrats, Rebecca!! This looks like an absolutely MUST read!

On 3/12/10 3:55 PM, "Palmquist,Michael" <Mike.Palmquist at ColoState.EDU>
wrote:

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> The WAC Clearinghouse and Parlor Press are pleased to announce a new book.
> Basic Writing, by George Otte and Rebecca Williams Mlynarczyk, is available in
> PDF format at the WAC Clearinghouse
> (http://wac.colostate.edu/books/basicwriting). We are hoping it will be
> available in print at the CCCCs in Louisville. Please check the Parlor Press
> booth for availability. Basic Writing is published in the Reference Guides to
> Rhetoric and Composition series, edited by Chuck Bazerman.
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> Description: Framed by historic developments<from the Open Admissions movement
> of the 1960s and 1970s to the attacks on remediation that intensified in the
> 1990s and beyond, Basic Writing traces the arc of these large social and
> cultural forces as they have shaped and reshaped the field. George Otte and
> Rebecca Williams Mlynarczyk balance fidelity to the past with present
> relevance, local concerns with (presumptively) global knowledge, personal
> judgment with (apparent) objectivity. Basic Writing circles back on the same
> general story, looking for different themes or seeing the same themes from
> different perspectives. What emerges is a gestalt of basic writing that will
> give readers interested in its history, self definition, pedagogy, or research
> a sense of the important trends and patterns. Otte and Mlynarczyk make
> research trajectories clear without oversimplifying them or denying the
> undeniable blurring, dissensus, and differential development that
> characterizes the field.
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> About the Authors: George Otte is a member of the doctoral faculty at the CUNY
> Graduate Center in the PhD Programs in English, Urban Education, and
> Interactive Technology and Pedagogy. He served as coeditor of the Journal of
> Basic Writing from 1996 to 2002. He is the coauthor with Nondita Mason of
> Writers' Roles: Enactments of the Process (Harcourt, 1994) and, with Linda
> Palumbo, of Casts of Thought: Writing In and Against Tradition (Macmillan,
> 1990). Rebecca Williams Mlynarczyk has taught basic writing at the City
> University of New York since 1974. She is currently Professor of English at
> the CUNY Graduate Center and Kingsborough Community College, where she
> codirects the ESL program. She is the author of Conversations of the Mind: The
> Uses of Journal Writing for Second-Language Learners (Erlbaum) and the
> coauthor, with Steven Haber, of In Our Own Words: Student Writers at Work
> (Cambridge). She has served as coeditor of the Journal of Basic Writing since
> 2003.
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> Shameless Plug: If you¹re at the Clearinghouse, please be sure to check out
> recent publication in Across the Disciplines (http://wac.colostate.edu/atd),
> the WAC Journal (http://wac.colostate.edu/journal/), and our other digital
> books series (http://wac.colostate.edu/books). You can also view the
> International Network of Writing Across the Curriculum Programs
> (http://wac.colostate.edu/network) and sections focusing on a range of WAC
> interest areas, such as Writing Fellows Program
> (http://wac.colostate.edu/fellows).
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> All the best,
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> Mike
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> Mike Palmquist
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> Director, Institute for Learning and Teaching | Colorado State University |
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Shannon Carter, PhD
Associate Professor of English
Director, Writing Programs
Department of Literature and Languages
Texas A&M University-Commerce
Commerce, Texas 75429-3011
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