At 03:08 PM 7/23/2004 +0000, you wrote: I also heave a deep sigh - as the all specializations required assume a person who can " to meet all contingencies, ESL issues, student with learning disabilities, become knowledgeable about writing requirements of faculty in all disciplines, Keep abreast of the latest scholarship in the field of composition/rhetoric. ....." would mean practically someone who has had extensive teacher training, curriculum theory, an instructional education research and theory background, and inter-disciplinary academic writing background and so forth, and yet the job is constructed as belonging in the naturalized, care-giving services, contingent labour supply side of the University - Interesting. The job also has a ten month renewable tenure. Has anyone read Gypsy academics and mother-teachers : gender, contingent labor, and writing instruction / Eileen E. Schell - it deals with the USA university context - but is certainly applicable to Canadian contexts and the construction of writing instruction as the mother-work of the university. >Hi Grant: >Thanks for sending that along, but isn't it depressing? A >PH.D preferred, starting at around 26,000 when pro-rated. >Will we ever overcome? >Linda > > > Here is a link for a writing centre consultant position at >UNBSJ: > > > > > > http://www.unb.ca/postings/eup/eup1089717702_825.html > > > > -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- > > To leave the list, send a SIGNOFF CASLL command to > > [log in to unmask] or, if you experience difficulties, > > write to Russ Hunt at [log in to unmask] > > > > For the list archives and information about the >organization, > > its newsletter, and the annual conference, go to > > http://www.stu.ca/inkshed/ > > -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- > > -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- > To leave the list, send a SIGNOFF CASLL command to > [log in to unmask] or, if you experience difficulties, > write to Russ Hunt at [log in to unmask] > >For the list archives and information about the organization, > its newsletter, and the annual conference, go to > http://www.stu.ca/inkshed/ > -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- "A Writer is someone for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people." Thomas Mann _________________________________________ Kathryn Alexander, Ph.D., Centre for Writing Intensive Learning (CWIL), Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, B.C. V5A 1S6 Office: AQ 6207 Tel: (604) 268 - 6799 Fax: (604) 268 - 6915 email: [log in to unmask] -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- To leave the list, send a SIGNOFF CASLL command to [log in to unmask] or, if you experience difficulties, write to Russ Hunt at [log in to unmask] For the list archives and information about the organization, its newsletter, and the annual conference, go to http://www.stu.ca/inkshed/ -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-