From: Charlie Moran [cmoran@english.umass.edu]
Sent: Wednesday, April 25, 2001 7:48 AM
To: cwonline@nwe.ufl.edu
Subject: Re: Early Implementors

Hi Dickie and all,

Ref. Kress: I met him first in the Ilana Snyder Page to Screen
anthology---and, since then, in the Utah State Passions & Pedagogies
anthology. 

And I think you are right about reflection---that it does happen in what
seem to be fast-moving situations. I guess what I think I see in my English
colleagues is an instinctive first move toward critique. Maybe it's close
to what Peter E calls the "doubting game"? And I see us in Composition
Studies as program-builders, or for Kress engaged in "participatory
design," our first, reflexive move being to say "Now what can we build with
this?"  Indeed, thatis our orientation as readers, too---here's a first
draft; now what might it become? And how can I contribute as an
editor/reader to its progress? Rather than the immediate move to look for
what's wrong with the piece. 


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