I love Inkshed and inkshedding. The archives absolutely must be preserved!
Best hellos to all/-and dies anyone have Roger Graves’s current email
address??
Andrea
On Mon, Oct 15, 2018 at 1:45 PM Brian Hotson <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Hello –
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> Thanks for bringing this up, Russ. Though I was only at two Inkshed
> gatherings, Inkshed provided me, professionally, grounding in academic
> writing and the academic writing community, at a time when the CWCA was
> struggling with its existence. The CWCA meeting at STLHE in 2012 had only 5
> people in a small boardroom at McGill, two of which were Inkshedders.
> Theresa Hyland calls Inkshed the “grandmother” of both CASDW and CWCA.
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> The listserve and archive are extremely important to the story of academic
> writing, rhetoric, and the community in the Canadian context. The fact that
> this discussion is occurring here is a sign of its usefulness! With the
> number of means of communicating online, e-mail still requires direct
> attention.
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> As Margaret mentioned, she’s written an excellent piece for the Writing
> Lab Newsletter blog, which will go up Oct 23rd. I’m hoping that this post
> will provide greater audience for the work of Inkshed, the Inkshed
> archives, the story of academic writing in Canada, and those who were
> involved. I’ll post it to the listserve when it’s up. For the archived
> newsletters, etc., I suggest that these should be backed up in multiple
> locations. It might be an idea to have the archive linked from the IWCA
> website and other regional and national writing centre associations – I
> can look into this, if there is interest.
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> The wiki idea is a great one, esp. with a bibliography. It may also be a
> moment to consider an edited volume of the letters and publications of
> Inkshed, published by Inkshed, of course…
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> Thanks,
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> Brian
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> *From: *"casll-l: Canadian Association for the Study of Language and
> Learning (Inkshed)" <[log in to unmask]> on behalf of Russell
> Hunt <[log in to unmask]>
> *Reply-To: *"casll-l: Canadian Association for the Study of Language and
> Learning (Inkshed)" <[log in to unmask]>
> *Date: *Friday, October 12, 2018 at 8:47 PM
> *To: *"[log in to unmask]" <[log in to unmask]>
> *Subject: *Re: The extinction of Inkshed
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> Let me try to respond to a number of emails in one, to avoid causing
> unnecessary RSI . . .
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> Doug says he thinks it's good to have the newsletters accessible, but says
> that's already happening: on the other hand, Carl says he couldn't find his
> own article in it, looking for it specifically. I think the issue is
> practical accessibility, and right now, where it is on the CASDW site, it's
> accessible but not exactly findable. It's like being on the library shelf
> but not in the catalog. I think that's the point Natasha makes, and Carolyn
> agrees with (as do I).
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> Kathy makes what I think is a brilliant suggestion: a wikipedia entry. I
> am (or anyway was at one time) a wikipedia editor. I propose to explore
> that and draft an entry, inviting other inkshedders to become editors (or
> exercise their editorship) to help. Not sure how quickly that can happen,
> because I'm off for Scotland and Ireland for a couple of weeks on Tuesday,
> and my dance card for the next few days is filling up, but I'll take a run
> at it.
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> I'm puzzled by Lois' posting, but on the assumption that it was intended
> for me and went to the list in error (like Brenda's signoff message), I'll
> suggest it be ignored on the list.
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> I'd like to reiterate (contra Doug) that I think the archive of CASLL-L is
> itself an important resource. Yes, the postings on it are rather like
> inksheds, in that they were situational and thus narrow and perhaps
> intended to be forgotten once used, like inksheds or conversation; on the
> other hand it's a record of where ideas arose and developed, and when, at
> least after 1995. As a LISTSERV archive, it's searchable by date and topic
> and poster, and I think is sort of like a steamer trunk full of
> correspondence, except there's an index on the cover. I think it's worth
> trying to make sure it survives and is accessible (at least until climate
> change floods all the servers . . . )
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> I also think a bibliography of inkshed-related publications would be a
> useful resource, and might become part of a wikipedia entry. But that's a
> more ambitious project than I want to think about on a Friday night.
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> Thank you to everybody who replied.
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> -- Russ
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