supporting scholarly exchange about communication across the curriculum
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John Ackerman, University of Colorado at Boulder Jenn Fishman, University of Tennessee at Knoxville Gail E. Hawisher, University of Illinois Anne Herrington, University of Massachusetts at Amherst Christine Hult, Utah State University Kathleen E. Kiefer, Colorado State University Susan H. McLeod, University of California Santa Barbara Joan Mullin, University of Texas |
Mike Palmquist, Colorado State University Donna Reiss, Clemson University Dickie Selfe, Ohio State University Chris Thaiss, University of California Davis Thea van der Geest, University of Twente Luuk Van Waes, University of Antwerp Carol Whithaus, University of California at Davis Art Young, Clemson University |
The WAC Clearinghouse is pleased to provide access to digital books addressing writing and speaking across the curriculum. Please follow the links below to view individual books or book series.
WAC Clearinghouse Perspectives on Writing
This is the first in a series of online books sponsored by the WAC Clearinghouse. The chapters in this edited collection consider human activity and writing from three different perspectives: the role of writing in producing work and the economy; the role of writing in creating, maintaining, and transforming socially located selves and communities; and the role of writing formal education. The editors observe, "The activity approaches to understanding writing presented in this volume give us ways to examine more closely how people do the work of the world and form the relations that give rise to the sense of selves and societies through writing, reading, and circulating texts. These essays provide major contributions to both writing research and activity theory as well as to the recently emerged but now robust research tradition that brings the two together."
Reference Guides to Rhetoric and Composition
Series Editor: Charles Bazerman, UC Santa Barbara
The books in this series, edited by Charles Bazerman and published jointly with Parlor Press, provide compact, comprehensive and convenient surveys of what has been learned through research and practice as composition has emerged as an academic discipline over the last half century. Each volume is devoted to a single topic that has been of interest in rhetoric and composition in recent years, to synthesize and make available the sum and parts of what has been learned on that topic. These reference guides are designed to help deepen classroom practice by making available the collective wisdom of the field and will provide the basis for new research. The Series is intended to be of use to teachers at all levels of education, researchers and scholars of writing, graduate students learning about the field, and all who have interest in or responsibility for writing programs and the teaching of writing.
Landmark Publications in Writing Studies
Series Editor: David Russell, Iowas State University
View a collection of republished books that have made a significant impact on writing-across-the-curriculum theory and practice. Many of these books are published with permission of their authors. Others are still available in print and are published here with permission of the publisher.
In July 1997, RhetNet editor and founder Eric Crump wrote, "We use the word 'books' with some trepidation in these parts, but the texts included in association with that term exhibit decidedly bookish characteristics. They were, after all, written and edited as books and so were given book-shape. They appear here, however, and so begin to fuzz around the edges, acquiring a glimmer of online features, a hint of hypertext, and the possibility of reader/writer interaction. But we must portray them for what they primarily are: books. Mighty good books, IMNSHO. :)" We encourage you to view the books in this groundbreaking series.
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