This solution would work for me.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Amanda Goldrick-Jones" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Monday, March 24, 2008 11:59 AM
Subject: Re: our joint piece
> Hi all,
>
> How about a closing sentence saying that various members of CASLL and
> CATTW
> collaborated on this piece, and then have the executive members or
> presidents of CASLL and CATTW as signatories.
>
> Cheers,
> Amanda
>
> On Mon, Mar 24, 2008 at 8:41 AM, wendy strachan <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
>> I agree with Margaret - willing as I originally was to join it, I began
>> wondering what we intend to accomplish with a list of signatures. Perhaps
>> reference could be made to the collaborative drafting process as a way of
>> indicating that this is indeed a piece that represents the constituency.
>> Marche's piece gave us an opportunity to sustain a little attention to
>> writing in a vehicle that reaches many colleagues which is clearly all to
>> the good. A list of signatures could seem defensive?
>>
>> Wendy
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>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: CASLL/Inkshed [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Margaret
>> Procter
>> Sent: Monday, March 24, 2008 8:31 AM
>> To: [log in to unmask]
>> Subject: Re: our joint piece
>>
>> I'm very happy to have Susan writing our response, and to see such good
>> input from others. But it isn't a petition we're sending. Having a
>> single signature and a reference to the two professional organizations
>> would sound calmer and more confident.
>> -- Margaret
>>
>>
>> Catherine F. Schryer wrote:
>> > Hi all
>> > I think it would be great if we could have a "host of signatures."
>> > ----- Original Message ----- From: "Betsy Sargent"
>> > <[log in to unmask]>
>> > To: <[log in to unmask]>
>> > 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
>> >>>
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