Hi all
I think it would be great if we could have a "host of signatures."
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From: "Betsy Sargent" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Saturday, March 22, 2008 8:21 PM
Subject: Re: our joint piece
> Susan, I want to join everyone else in thanking you for drafting this
> piece. I think the tone is excellent. I was wondering if it would make
> sense to have not just CASLL/Inkshed members signing it, but CATTW as
> well? (there's so much overlap between the two--and it gives us a chance,
> as Anthony mentioned, of highlighting the professional organizations that
> exist in the field). I'm not sure of the logistics involved in signing
> such a piece, but I'd certainly be honored to have my name associated with
> it, as a member of either organization.
>
> If you're still working on a revision, I thought perhaps Tosh's point of
> agreement with Marche ("Greater TA training and support are needed") might
> be worth highlighting. And also you might emphasize what you mentioned in
> your earlier email about WHIIPS--that "Write Here in Plain Sight is Sunny
> Marche's response to his observation that much learning is tacit . . . ."
> Because so much of the rich resevoir of knowledge faculty have about
> writing in their own disciplines is tacit, TAs are not the only ones who
> need some training and help figuring out how to integrate more writing
> productively into upper-level courses. As Shurli mentioned, scholars in
> Writing Studies research disciplinary discourses and thus can help other
> faculty come to more explicit understandings about what it is they do when
> they write in their own fields--which in turn helps them make their tacit
> expectations clearer to students (it's hard for students to learn all they
> need to know about writing in a particular field through observation
> alone--for one thing, since Marche is one of the few faculty to compose in
> public, students won't get many chances to observe writing in progress!).
>
> I like the tact of your piece as it stands now, but I'm also remembering
> how Wendy S. described working with faculty at SFU--what she described
> seemed like the best sort of collaboration between colleagues who shared
> their different areas of expertise to mutual advantage (the faculty in
> other disciplines would show her samples of what they considered excellent
> work in the field, from senior scholars as well as from novices/students,
> and together she and the faculty member would do a discourse analysis that
> would help them articulate for students what the defining characteristics
> of excellence were in that community of discourse and what was expected
> for particular assignments).
>
> Sorry--I know all of this is obvious to Inkshed and CATTW folks--I'm just
> trying to think here of a way to acknowledge the expertise Shurli brought
> up while also acknowledging how much those of us in Writing Studies need
> (and need constantly to acknowledge) the expertise of faculty in other
> fields in order to help WAC initiatives work well. Unlike Shurli, I don't
> have specific words to suggest--but maybe there's a way to use Marche's
> own idea about the tacit to strike this balance (that is, even with
> training TAs who will be assigned to WAC courses, it's often a matter of
> helping them make explicit moves they already make tacitly in their own
> disciplinary writing).
>
> Thanks again for taking this on. Best, Betsy
>
> At 09:53 AM 3/22/2008, you wrote:
>>Thanks everyone for the comments so far and for the wiki editing.
>>I wanted to get some feedback before I tried to finish it, and this has
>>been very helpful. Let me absorb and get back to you.
>>
>>Cheers (and to those to whom it applies, Happy Easter!)
>>
>>Susan
>>
>>
>>Susan Drain, PhD
>>Department of English
>>Mount Saint Vincent University
>>Halifax, NS Canada B3M 2J6
>>902 457 6220
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