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I also like the idea of Alternate discourses since I think it would 
easy to adapt and incorporate second language learning 
factors/issues/approaches to this theme. Gloria Michalchuk




coQuoting Susan Drain <[log in to unmask]>:

> I was going to suggest that it was time we revisited "Literature and
> Composition: the Troubled Connection", except that I thought that most
> Inkshedders (in practice at least, if not in theory) have moved beyond
> trying to maintain any connection at all.  But perhaps Marcy's
> suggestion would cover it.  (She wrote "I think the Alternative
> Discourses and Disciplinary Codes idea could incorporate the others,
> particularly if you added language that broadened the scope of
> discussion to include competing discourses within disciplines, or
> discourses that disrupt disciplines (which is what I think the podcasts
> and wikis and so forth do).")  Composition/rhetoric is still often
> understood as a competing or disruptive discourse within the English
> Department -- in those places where it maintains any connection with
> such departments at all.  And from where I sit and from what I see, it's
> still a relevant issue -- and certainly one I can get worked up about
> more easily than podcasts and wikis and all those other no doubt
> interesting things.
>
> Looking forward to London, all being well.
> Susan
>
>
>
> Susan Drain, PhD
> Department of English
> Mount Saint Vincent University
> Halifax, NS Canada  B3M 2J6
> 902 457 6220
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