Thanks for sharing this, Russ. I remember Jim, and some of the other Inkshed founding folks (yourself included), as true intellectual mentors as I was transitioning from a half-assed remedial writing teacher with an English Lit degree and no idea how to teach writing, to a real writing studies teacher and scholar. The writing community of the 80s and 90s owed him a great deal and he will be remedied fondly by all of us.
Dr. Doug Brent, Professor Emeritus
Department of Communication, Media and Film
University of Calgary
On Jan 13, 2019, at 1:23 PM, Russell Hunt <[log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>> wrote:
I thought I should write and let Inkshedders know that Jim Reither died a week ago. He’d been ill for some years, so the death was not unexpected. He had been out of touch with most Inkshedders since his early retirement in the mid-nineties. He’d been living in Albuquerque for decades.
He was, as most Inkshedders are aware, a centrally important force in shaping the ideas that underlay the organization and its role, and was centrally responsible for the creation and maintenance of Inkshed for its first decade. His ideas remain influential among those of us who care about the learning and teaching of literacy. Particularly powerful are his “Writing and Knowing: Toward Redefining the Writing Process” (_College English_, 1985), and his and Doug Vipond’s “Writing as Collaboration” (_College English_, 1989). It has been argued that his and other Inkshedders’ work in the mid-eighties represented a turning point in the teaching of writing, from thinking of composition as a cognitive process to seeing it as centrally a social one. See, for instance, Kristopher Lotier’s “Around 1986: the Externalization of Cognition and the Emergence of Postprocess Invention” (_CCCC_, 2016).
* Russ
Russ Hunt
Professor Emeritus of English
St. Thomas University
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