Oh Russell, what sad news. I knew Jim had been ill but had not heard of his passing. He was one in a million: I respected him and his work deeply and will miss him very much. Andrea On Sun, Jan 13, 2019 at 12:23 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 > > > -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- To leave the list, send a SIGNOFF CASLL-L command to > [log in to unmask] or, if you experience difficulties, write > to Russ Hunt at [log in to unmask] > > To view or search the list archives, go to > https://listserv.utoronto.ca/cgi-bin/wa?A0=CASLL-L -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- > -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- To leave the list, send a SIGNOFF CASLL-L command to [log in to unmask] or, if you experience difficulties, write to Russ Hunt at [log in to unmask] To view or search the list archives, go to https://listserv.utoronto.ca/cgi-bin/wa?A0=CASLL-L -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-