I agree. One needs to feel part of the "conversation." In my previous
participation and current observations, I've noticed a divide between,
as Jim so aptly puts, "previous" and "next" generation conversations.
Collegiality is a wonderful thing; however, it can inadvertantly
create boundaries...but, then, I venture into the fascinating area of
discourse analysis. For what it's worth, Gloria Michalchuk
Quoting "Jim Gough" <[log in to unmask]>:
> Roger: I'm not sure how much credence I have since I've only
> participated at one conference--which I found both interesting and
> useful--in Canmore. I'm also a philosopher, which puts me at the
> periphery-- perhaps--of the goals and aims of the group. However, as
> a general observation I can attest to the failure of other groups
> and it seems to me that there are two reasons for the failure of
> these academic groups: (1) a failure to initiate the next generation
> of young scholars into the ethos of the group, and (2) a failure of
> the group to consistently identify and reify the values and identity
> of itself, its reason for being. For example, I was a member of a
> philosophy association which disappeared--and hardly anyone
> noticed--partly because no new members could see themselves as part
> of the group and partly because they couldn't see any long term
> value in identifying themselves as part of the group. So, there
> needs to be some recruitment of new members to move the group forwar!
> d, with the condition that they may also re-evalate the ethos of
> the group. For what it is worth! Cheers, Jim
>
> ________________________________________
> From: CASLL/Inkshed [[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Roger
> Graves [[log in to unmask]]
> Sent: March 23, 2009 10:58 AM
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Newest Inkshed Newsletter is on the web site
>
> The latest edition of the Inkshed Newsletter is up on the web:
>
> http://www.stthomasu.ca/inkshed/nletta09/inkshed25_2.pdf
>
> It features three book reviews, two of Wendy Strachan's Writing
> Intensive: Becoming W-Faculty in a New Writing Curriculum and one of
> Rhetorical Genre Studies and Beyond, edited by Natasha Artemeva and
> Aviva Freedman. Information about the CASDW conference in Ottawa, the
> CSSR conference in Montreal, and the CWCA meeting in Fredericton is
> included, as well as a link to Tania Smith's blog.
>
> I'd like to put my own plug in for Writing Intensive: Becoming W-
> Faculty in a New Writing Curriculum. This book tells important stories
> about how curricular change occurs and the factors that influence it.
> I'm particularly interested in the administrative positioning of the
> the various writing initiatives and how that positioning affects the
> nature of the instruction that gets delivered. If you don't have time
> or access to the book, make sure you read the reviews by Margaret
> Proctor and Theresa Hyland.
>
> On an equally important note, I found Tosh Tachino's review of
> Rhetorical Genre Studies and Beyond to be extremely useful as a quick
> refresher guide to the RGS approach to discourse studies and to the
> limits and advantages of that approach.
>
> For the next issue, we'd like to encourage notes, ideas, and thought
> experiments of all kinds on this topic: Inkshed 2.0. It is clear that
> there will not be an Inkshed conference this summer, so we think that,
> as an organization, Inkshed needs to be re-invented. Any thoughts on
> how to do proceed with this would be most welcome, and this summer I'd
> like to convene a working group to create the next version. If you are
> interested, email me offline ([log in to unmask]).
>
>
> Heather Graves and Roger Graves, Co-editors
>
>
> Roger Graves
> Director, WAC and Acting Director, Centre for Writers
> [log in to unmask]
> http://www.ualberta.ca/~graves1/index.html
>
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Dept. of Secondary Education
780-492-3674
University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB
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