Writing and Revising the Disciplines / Edition 1

by Jonathan Monroe

Overview

In 1997, Cornell University's John S. Knight Institute for Writing in the Disciplines (formerly the Knight Writing Program) established a center for research and exchange concerning questions of writing and disciplinarity. This book is the result of the Institute's encouragement of greater self-understanding within specific fields at all levels as well as enhanced dialogue across the disciplines.Writing and Revising the Disciplines records the reflections and experiences of distinguished academic thinkers and practitioners in the humanities, social sciences, and physical sciences. Attending to the ways their respective disciplinary contexts and practices have changed in the recent past and continue to evolve, the book's contributors explore key issues in the current state of their disciplines in light of crucial moments in each discipline's recent or longer-term history. Each chapter provides a sense of what its author considers exemplary and crucial to the development of his or her academic field.The shape and form of each chapter, as well as its content, depend on its author's own priorities, investments, goals, and life-history. Each author maps out and investigates continuities and shifts in the field he or she represents while considering the parameters of the discipline's self-definition and the diversity of its writing practices.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780801487514
Publisher:	Cornell University Press
Publication date:	02/15/2002
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	208
Product dimensions:	6.12(w) x 9.25(h) x 0.48(d)
Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

Jonathan Monroe is Professor of Comparative Literature, Associate Dean of Arts and Sciences, and Director of the John S. Knight Institute for Writing in the Disciplines at Cornell University. Author of A Poverty of Objects: The Prose Poem and the Politics of Genre, he has published widely in the areas of modern and contemporary poetry and cross-genre writing.

What People are Saying About This

Henry Sussman

Jonathan Monroe's collection is a highly useful, well informed, and coherent volume of essays. Writing and Revising the Disciplines is a unique academic collaboration.

Editorial Reviews

This volume.... explores the varied methods of writing in the different academic disciplines.... Includes analyses of samples of writing the authors consider to be exemplary and representative of their particular fields.

Higher Education Abstracts

This volume.... explores the varied methods of writing in the different academic disciplines.... Includes analyses of samples of writing the authors consider to be exemplary and representative of their particular fields.

-- "Higher Education Abstracts"

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