After the end of the first Inkshed conference -- an exhausting transformative experience -- I fell in with a dozen people who were having lunch and as I listened to the conversation from my place at the very bottom of the table I started to cry. Jim asked what was the matter, and I confessed that I wanted so much to belong to this community.
"You already do," he said.
God rest that big heart.
Susan
Susan Drain, PhD
Professor Emerita
English and Writing Studies
Mount Saint Vincent University
Halifax, NS B3M 2J6
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From: casll-l: Canadian Association for the Study of Language and Learning (Inkshed) [[log in to unmask]] on behalf of Andrea Lunsford [[log in to unmask]]
Sent: January 13, 2019 4:57 PM
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Subject: Re: Jim Reither
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]<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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