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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