Thanks, Jamie, for the poem. It will definitely find its way into the
next issue of the Inkshed newsletter. In fact, so far, it's the only
sure thing...
In fact, I'm writing to solicit another contribution for the upcoming
(late Oct.?) newsletter, which I hope to focus on the intersections
between the business and academic world in the realm of writing
instruction. Given your unique position, I thought that you might have
some reflections to contribute. So far, I've asked Susan Logie from the
Carleton Univ. Writing Consultants to submit a piece describing and
reflecting on their service, and I've asked Cathy Schryer to consider
writing a piece on lessons learned from the now defunct Centre for
Professional Writing at the University of Waterloo.
Part of my motivation for wanting to focus on this issue is purely
selfish: our incoming Dean has indicated that she'd like to see our
writing program develop a series of business writing workshops that we
can take off the shelf and offer upon request to business organizations
in the community. I'm becoming increasingly cynical about the
commodification of writing instruction within such a model, yet one-off
workshops seem to be what businesses think they need and want, which
begs the question of whether they work.
BTW, I saw your former colleague, Graham, in July at Purdue University,
where he seems quite happily settled in. He was preparing to fly off to
Tokyo and then on to Australia, if I recall correctly. I was at Purdue
for a four-day workshop followed by a three-day conference for writing
program administrators. All in all, an excellent experience. (It was
also a week in which I developed a fondness for Killian's Irish Red...)
Hope you're having a good summer!
Jo-Anne Andre
U of Calgary
phone (403) 220-7429
fax (403) 282-6716
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