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Thanks for letting us know, Russ. That's sad news indeed. I have a wonderful memory of Jim at my very first CCCC--San Francisco in the early 1980s(!). In a very informal and genial way, he shepherded a group of us walking from the piers all the way back to the hotel, including a stop at Ferlinghetti's bookstore. (Does anyone else remember that?) This was my first big conference! For me, Jim helped set the tone that I came to associate with so many of our gatherings from then on: collaboration, exploration, support, and fun. 

~Amanda

On Sun, 13 Jan 2019 at 14:59, Doug Brent <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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]> 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

people.stu.ca/~hunt

 

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