Barbara, et al. --
Tried all day to get this out, and finally got prodded by Barbara's
reminder about airline tickets.
I can't remember what else you need to know about this -- I'll
check the cfp tomorrow and if something needs to be added I'll add
it. Just wanted to get it off my "crisis/do it right now" pile.
Contexts of reading (and writing)
In this theoretical presentation, I propose to illustrate with
examples of student and other writing the richness of nested
contextual pressures which shape the writing and reading of students
and others working with texts in situations where the texts actually
have consequences, and are not isolated in the glass case of "school
writing."
I will use examples primarily drawn from my current courses, in which
student writing is the basis for real decisions about what gets
studied and investigated, and in which students research and prepare
"playgoer's" guides (which are actually printed and distributed at
the theatres before performances) for local theatre productions. How
such texts are written and read is shaped by a nested complex of
situational pressures, beginning with the larger social issues
around school and learning, and ending with the local and immediate
situation in which one student's writing is read by another as they
prepare a playgoer's guide or make a decision about which text or
issue to investigate further.
The fundamental purpose will be to compare the rich, productive
complexity of authentically situated writing with the less rich and
less productive writing which is written in order to demonstrate or
improve writing ability or substantiate individual knowledge before
an authority.
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