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The Writing Center as Cultural and Interdisciplinary Contact Zone
Randall W. Monty
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Description for The Writing Center as Cultural and Interdisciplinary Contact Zone
Hardback. Num Pages: 161 pages, 9 black & white illustrations, 2 colour illustrations, 6 black & white tables, biography. BIC Classification: CJCW; JNK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 148. Weight in Grams: 344.
Writing centers are complex. They are places of scholarly work, spaces of interdisciplinary interaction, and programs of service, among other things. With this complexity in mind, this book theorizes writing center studies as a function of its own rhetorical and discursive practices. In other words, the things we do and make define who we are and what we value. Through a comprehensive methodological framework grounded in critical discourse analysis, this book takes a closer look at prominent writing center discourses by temporarily shifting attention away from the stakeholders, work, locations, and scholarship of the discipline, and onto things—the artifacts and ... Read more
Writing centers are complex. They are places of scholarly work, spaces of interdisciplinary interaction, and programs of service, among other things. With this complexity in mind, this book theorizes writing center studies as a function of its own rhetorical and discursive practices. In other words, the things we do and make define who we are and what we value. Through a comprehensive methodological framework grounded in critical discourse analysis, this book takes a closer look at prominent writing center discourses by temporarily shifting attention away from the stakeholders, work, locations, and scholarship of the discipline, and onto things—the artifacts and ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
161
Condition
New
Number of Pages
146
Place of Publication
Basingstoke, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781137540935
SKU
V9781137540935
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99-15
About Randall W. Monty
Randall W. Monty is Assistant Professor of Rhetoric, Composition and Literacy Studies at the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley. His scholarly interests include critical discourse studies, writing center studies, border studies, and multimodal and mobile composition. He hopes to add soccer to that list.
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