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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
>
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