[CBW_Exec] [wcenter] New Book on Basic Writing

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Contratulations Rebecca!   The BW historical narrative must have been 
challenging to write. I look forward to reading it. 
Warmly, Barbara

In a message dated 3/12/10 5:45:39 PM, Shannon_Carter at tamu-commerce.edu 
writes:


> 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).
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> All the best,
>  
> Mike
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> Mike Palmquist
> Associate Vice Provost for Learning and Teaching
> Director, Institute for Learning and Teaching | Colorado State University 
> | Fort Collins, CO 80523-1052
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