[CBW_Exec] [wcenter] New Book on Basic Writing

[Sugie Goen-Salter]

Congratulations Rebecca! This is fantastic news.
Sugie
On Mar 12, 2010, at 2:42 PM, Shannon Carter wrote:

>
> 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.
>>
>> 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
>> Associate Vice Provost for Learning and Teaching
>> Director, Institute for Learning and Teaching | Colorado State  
>> University | Fort Collins, CO 80523-1052
>> Voice: (970) 491-3132
>> Fax: (970) 491-3483
>> Email: Mike.Palmquist at ColoState.edu <mailto:Mike.Palmquist at ColoState.edu 
>> >
>> Web: http://lamar.colostate.edu/~mp <http://lamar.colostate.edu/~mp>
>>
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Sugie Goen-Salter
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