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Record Nr.

UNISA996199129803316

Autore

Adler-Kassner Linda

Titolo

Activist WPA, The : Changing Stories About Writing and Writers / / Linda Adler-Kassner

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Utah State University, University Libraries, 2008

Logan, Utah : , : Utah State University Press, , 2008

©2008

ISBN

0-87421-700-8

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (224 pages)

Disciplina

808/.042071073

Soggetti

Writing centers - Administration

Report writing - Study and teaching (Higher) - United States

English language - Rhetoric - Study and teaching - United States

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 187-203) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Working from a point of principle -- Looking backward -- Framing the public imagination -- Changing conversations about writing and writers: working through a process -- Taking action to change stories -- Working from my own points of principle : Tikkun Olam, prophetic pragmatism, and writing program administration.

Sommario/riassunto

One wonders if there is any academic field that doesn't suffer from the way it is portrayed by the media, by politicians, by pundits and other publics. How well scholars in a discipline articulate their own definition can influence not only issues of image but the very success of the discipline in serving students and its other constituencies. The Activist WPA is an effort to address this range of issues for the field of English composition in the age of the Spellings Commission and the No Child Left Behind Act. Drawing on recent developments in framing theory and the resur



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Record Nr.

UNINA9910484043003321

Titolo

Electronic Participation : 5th IFIP WG 8.5 International Conference, ePart 2013, Koblenz, Germany, September 17-19, 2013, Proceedings / / edited by Maria A. Wimmer, Efthimios Tambouris, Ann Macintosh

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berlin, Heidelberg : , : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2013

ISBN

3-642-40346-8

Edizione

[1st ed. 2013.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (X, 159 p. 39 illus.)

Collana

Information Systems and Applications, incl. Internet/Web, and HCI, , 2946-1642 ; ; 8075

Disciplina

004

Soggetti

Computers and civilization

Information technology - Management

Computer networks

Computers and Society

Computer Application in Administrative Data Processing

Computer Communication Networks

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di contenuto

Research directions -- Social media and eParticipation -- Online deliberation.

Sommario/riassunto

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 5th IFIP WG 8.5 International Conference on Electronic Participation, ePart 2013, held in Koblenz, Germany, in September 2013. The 13 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 30 submissions. The papers cover a wide range of research in both social and technological scientific domains, seeking to demonstrate new theories, concepts, methods and styles of eParticipation with the support of innovative ICT. They have been organized in the following topical sections: research directions, social media and eParticipation, and online deliberation.