Thanks for sharing this, Tania. Very interesting. The person must have missed the Dalhousie conference on critical writing and critical thinking and Anthony's talk, which explains the issues very nicely for a broader audience:
Paré, A. (2007). What we know about writing, and why it matter. Plenary address, Critical writing, critical thinking conference, Dalhousie University, Halifax, May 2-3
http://faculty.msvu.ca/SusanDrain/pare%20keynote.pdf.
Doreen
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I just found the latest University Affairs magazine in my mailbox today,
and look! There's an article about writing instruction at universities!
http://www.universityaffairs.ca/issues/2008/april/opinion_01.html
So... who among us is going to write in a letter to the editor and
inform the readers of University Affairs that there ARE experts in
written composition at Canadian universities, that writing instruction
is not just a job for TAs, and that "understanding how [language] works
psychologically" is a part of the interdisciplinary field of rhetorical
studies?
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Tania Smith
Assistant Professor
University of Calgary
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