[CBW_Exec] [wcenter] New Book on Basic Writing

[Rebecca Mlynarczyk]

Thank you so much, Marcia! The book was a long time in the works, and George
and I are so glad that it's now available free for anyone who would like to
dip into it.

Warm regards,

Rebecca

On Fri, Mar 12, 2010 at 5:50 PM, Ribble, Marcia (ribbleml) <
ribbleml at ucmail.uc.edu> wrote:

>  What great news!  It's grand when our own do us proud.  Congrats to
> George and Rebecca.
>
> Marcia
>  ------------------------------
> *From:* cbw_exec-bounces at tamu-commerce.edu [
> cbw_exec-bounces at tamu-commerce.edu] On Behalf Of Shannon Carter [
> Shannon_Carter at tamu-commerce.edu]
> *Sent:* Friday, March 12, 2010 5:42 PM
> *To:* Conference of Basic Writing Executive Board
> *Subject:* Re: [CBW_Exec] [wcenter] New Book on Basic Writing
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>
> Yahoo!! Congrats, Rebecca!! This looks like an absolutely MUST read!
>
> On 3/12/10 3:55 PM, "Palmquist,Michael" <Mike.Palmquist at ColoState.EDU<http://urlblockederror.aspx/>>
> wrote:
>
>
>
> 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.
>
> *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.
>
> *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.
>
> *Shameless Plug:* If you’re 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).
>
> All the best,
>
> Mike
>
> ******************
> Mike Palmquist
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