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 > [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/ > -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- > > -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- 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/ -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-