Talking Back: Senior Scholars and Their Colleagues Deliberate the Past, Present, and Future of Writing Studies

by Norbert Elliot (Editor), Alice S. Horning (Editor)

Overview

In Talking Back, a veritable Who's Who of writing studies scholars deliberate on intellectual traditions, current practices, and important directions for the future. In response, junior and mid-career scholars reflect on each chapter with thoughtful and measured moves forward into the contemporary environment of research, teaching, and service. Each of the prestigious chapter authors in the volume has three common traits: a sense of responsibility for advancing the profession, a passion for programs of research dedicated to advancing opportunities for others, and a reflective sense of their work accompanied by humility for their contributions. As a documentary, Talking Back is the first history of writing studies in autobiography.

Contributors: Jo Allen, Ann N. Amicucci, Akua Duku Anokye, Paige Davis Arrington, Doug Baldwin, John C. Brereton, Judy Buchanan, Hugh Burns, Leasa Burton, Ellen C. Carillo, William Condon, Dylan B. Dryer, Michelle F. Eble, Jennifer Enoch, Joan Feinberg, Patricia Friedrich, Cinthia Gannett, Eli Goldblatt, Shenika Hankerson, Janis Haswell, Richard Haswell, Eric Heltzel, Douglas Hesse, Bruce Horner, Alice S. Horning, Asao B. Inoue, Ruth Ray Karpen, Suzanne Lane, Min-Zhan Lu, Donald McQuade, Elisabeth L. Miller, Rebecca Williams Mlynarczyk, Sean Molloy, Les Perelman, Louise Wetherbee Phelps, Stacey Pigg, Sherry Rankins-Robertson, Jessica Restaino, J. Michael Rifenburg, Eliana Schonberg, Geneva Smitherman, Richard Sterling, Katherine E. Tirabassi, Devon Tomasulo, Martha A. Townsend, Mike Truong, Victor Villanueva, Edward M. White, Anne Elrod Whitney, Kathleen Blake Yancey

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781607329756
Publisher:	Utah State University Press
Publication date:	05/01/2020
Edition description:	1
Pages:	442
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 1.10(d)
Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

Norbert Elliot is research professor at the University of South Florida and professor emeritus of English at New Jersey Institute of Technology. He is coauthor of Early Holistic Scoring of Writing, with Richard Haswell, and Very Like a Whale: The Assessment of Writing Programs, with Edward M. White and Irvin Peckham, and coeditor of Writing Assessment, Social Justice, and the Advancement of Opportunity, with Mya Poe and Asao B. Inoue, and Talking Back: Senior Scholars and Their Colleagues Deliberate the Past, Present, and Future of Writing Studies, with Alice Horning.

Alice S. Horning is professor emerita of writing and rhetoric/linguistics at Oakland University. Her research is focused on the intersection of reading and writing, concentrating on students' reading difficulties and how to address them in writing courses and across the disciplines. Horning's work has appeared in the major professional journals and in books published by Parlor Press and Hampton Press. Her most recent book is Literacy Then and Now, published by Peter Lang. Her current project is titled Literacy Heroines: Women and the Written Word. She is editor of the Studies in Composition and Rhetoric book series for Peter Lang.

Table of Contents

Introduction: Seniority in Writing Studies Norbert Elliot 3

1 Inside the Wave: The Protessionalization and Future of Technical and Professional Communication Jo Allen 27

Response: Turning toward Social Justice Approaches to Technical and Professional Communication Michelle F. Eble 38

2 Talking Brought Me Here: Sociolinguistics and African American Life Akua Duku Anokye 43

Response: Still Talking: Embracing Varieties, World Englishes, and the Power of Words Patricia- Friedrich 51

3 "The Times, They Are A-Changin'": Reflections on the Evolution of Research and Policy in Large-Scale Writing Assessments Doug Baldwin 56

Response: "You Better Start Swimmin' or You'll Sink Like a Stone": How Assessment Keeps Changin' Devon Tomasulo 67

4 Learning from the National Writing Project as a Kindergarten-University Partnership: Talking Back and Forth Judy Buchanan Richard Sterling 73

Response: Talking Back and Forth between Memory and Legacy in the National Writing Project Anne Elrod Whitney 84

5 Intimate Machines: Cultivating Wisdom in Eider Gardens Hugh Burns 90

Response: Toward a Research Agenda for Digital Intimacy Ann N. Amicucci 101

6 Assessment as a By-Product of Ongoing Research: Identifying, Describing, and Nourishing a Campus Culture of Teaching and Learning William Condon 107

Response: From Assessment as Research to Empirical Education Michael Truong 119

7 A Bedford Story: Taking the Measure of a Publisher Joan Feinberg 123

Response: On Being Useful Leasa Burton 135

8 Framing and Facing Histories of Rhetoric and Composition: Composition-Rhetoric in the Time of the Dartmouth Conference Cinthia Gannett John C. Brereton 139

Response: History Has Moved through Us KatherineE. Tirabassi 153

9 Writing Wisdom: A Meditative Quilt Eli Goldblatt 158

Response: Doors, Walls, and the Paradox of Not Knowing Jessica Restaino 164

Response: Legacy and Invitation Paige Davis Arrington Ann E. Berthoff 168

10 "Bottomless Mysteries" on the Margins: A Dream Interview Janis Haswell Richard Haswell 173

Response: Toward Open Exchanges in a Networked World Stacey Pigg 185

11 Aging through the Thirty-Year Rise of Professionalized Writing Administration Douglas Hesse 189

Response: Embracing the Accidental Trajectory Eliona Schonberg 204

12 Reading Old and New: An Autobiography and an Argument Alice S. Horning 210

Response: Discovering Reading Ellen C. Carillo 219

13 Rewriting the Language(s) of Language Differences in Writing Min-Zhan Lu Bruce Horner 225

Response: Not Trajectory but Translation: Talking Back with and to Min-Zhan Lu and Bruce Horner Dylan B. Dryer 233

14 Starting from Scratch: Practicing and Teaching the Work of Words Donald McQuade 241

Response: The Goal of Teaching Is to Become Obsolete Eric Heltzel 255

15 Rethinking Basic Writing: Reflections on Language, Education, and Opportunity Rebecca Williams Mlynarczyk 261

Response: A Reckoning for Basic Writing Sean Molloy 271

16 Contact Zones across the Disciplines Les Perelman 277

Response: Writing Research across Disciplinary Boundaries Suzanne Lane 289

17 Identity Work: Continuities and Transformations in the Senior Years Louise Wetherbee Phelps 294

Response: Reading Identity Work through a Disability Lens: Care, Bodies, and Time Elisabeth L. Miller 308

18 Raciolinguistics and the "Mis-education of the Negro"-and You Too: Race, Language, and the Elder in "Post-Racial" America Geneva Smitherman 312

Response: "I Love My African American Language. And Yours": Toward a Raciolinguistic Vision in Writing Studies Shenika Hankerson 321

19 Valuing New Approaches for Tenure and Promotion for WAC/WID Scholar/Administrators: Advice for Higher Education and the Writing Studies Community Martha A. Townsend 326

Response: Community: A Response to Marty Townsend J. Michael Rifenburg 337

Our Concluding Thoughts: Reflections on Seniority, Mentoring, Genres, and Cross-Generational Collaboration Martha A. Townsend J. Michael Rifenburg 339

20 Mode Meshing: Before the New World Was New Victor Villanueva 343

Response: Becoming in the New World Asao B. Inoue 353

21 Fifty Years of Curriculum Changes: Looking In and Looking Out in College Writing Classes Edward M. White 359

Response: Shaped by the (Disciplinary) Past: An Intergenerational Response to Edward M. White Sherry Rankins-Robertson 370

22 The Composing of Seniors: Navigating Needs, Tasks, and Social Practices Kathleen Blake Yancey 376

Response: The Composing of the 41 Percent: A Response to Kathleen Blake Yancey Jennifer Enoch 388

Afterword: Toward an Even Longer View Ruth Ray Karpen 392

About the Authors 405

Index 415