Full Description
For over 25 years, the journal Writing on the Edge has published interviews with influential writers, teachers, and scholars. Now, Teachers on the Edge: The WOE Interviews, 1989-2017 collects the voices of 39 significant figures in writing studies, forming an accessible survey of the modern history of rhetoric and composition. In a conversational style, Teachers on the Edge encourages a remarkable group of teachers and scholars to tell the stories of their influences and interests, tracing the progress of their contributions. This engaging volume is invaluable to graduate students, writing teachers, and scholars of writing studies.
Contents
Preface: David Masiel Project Notes and Acknowledgements: Lisa Sperber
Forward: John Boe and Eric Schroeder
Toby Fulwiler (1.1) - Fall 1989 - "The Mechanism is Writing" - Eric James Schroeder
Mike Rose (1.2) - Spring 1990 - "Imagine a Writing Program" - Susan Palo
Richard Lanham (2.1) - Fall 1990 - "Learning by Going Along" - Carolyn Handa & Gretchen Flesher
Andrea Lunsford and Lisa Ede (2.2) - Spring 1991 - "Collaboration as a Subversive Activity" - Alice H. Calderonello, Donna B. Nelson, and Sue C. Simmons
Linda Flower (3.1) - Fall 1991 - "Helping Writers Build Mansions with More Rooms" - Jill Wilson
James Berlin 15 (3.2) - Spring 1992 - "Dialectical Notions" - Brian A. Connery and Van E. Hillard
Peter Elbow 23 (4.1) - Fall 1992 - "Going in Two Directions at Once" - John Boe and Eric Schroeder
Cynthia Selfe 16 (4.1) - Fall 1992 - "Nomadic Feminist Cyborg Guerilla" - Carolyn Handa
Donald Murray 14 (4.2) - Spring 1993 - "Mucking about in Language I Save my Soul" - Driek Zirinsky
Joseph Williams and Gregory Colomb 18 (5.1) - Fall 1993 - "The Takeaway" - Donald Johns
Patricia Bizzell (5.2) - Spring 1994 - "Radical Pedagogy" - Sidney I. Dobrin and Todd Taylor
James J. Murphy (5.2) - Spring 1994 - "Setting Minds in Motion" - Mardena Creek
James Moffett (6.1) - Fall 1994 - "Individualize" - Eric Schroeder & John Boe
Charles Bazerman (6.2) - Spring 1995 - "Writing Is Motivated Participation" - Margaret Eldred
Joseph Harris (7.2) - Spring 1996 - "Changing Habits of Thinking" - Thomas West
Ira Shor (8.2) - Spring 1997 - "Every Difference Will Be Used Against Us" - Andrea Greenbaum
Walter Nash (9.2) - Spring 1998 - "Incertitude's Her Element" - David Stacey
David Bartholomae (10.1) - Fall 1998 - "Stop Being So Coherent" - John Boe & Eric Schroeder
Walker Gibson (11.2) - Spring 2000 - "A Nest of Singing Rhetorical Birds" - Margaret M. Strain
Charles Moran (11.2) - Spring 2000 - "A Sense of Professional Well Being"- Margaret M. Strain Nancy Welch (12.1) - Fall 2000 - "Imagining Stories"- Fred Santiago Arroyo and Alice Gillam
Lynn Z. Bloom (12.2) - Spring 2001 - "Once More to the Essay" - Jenny Spinner
William E. Coles (13.1) - Fall 2002 -"Failure is the Way We Learn" - John Boe and Eric Schroeder
Keith Gilyard (14.2) - Spring 2004 - "I Have Fun Playing with Language" - Sharon James McGee
Ken Macrorie (15.1) - Fall 2004 - "Arrangements for Truthtelling" - John Boe and Eric Schroeder
Wayne Booth (15.2) - Spring 2005 - "Covering Almost All of Life" - John Boe
Pat Hoy (17.1) - Fall 2006 - "I Want to Rip Your Heart Out" - Mel Livatino
Claude Hurlbert (18.1) - Fall 2007 -"Where Meaning and Being Gathers" - Krystia Nora, Roseanne Gatto, Dawn Fels, and Elizabeth Campbell
Sondra Perl (20.2) - Spring 2010 - There's Humor and There's Tears" - John Boe Deirdre McCloskey (21.2) - Spring 2012 - "Humanomics" - Ed Kahn and John Boe
Doug Hesse (23.2) - Spring 2013 - "Cultivating Writerly Sensibilities" - Eric Leake Victor Villanueva (24.1) - Fall 2013 - "Some of It Is Serendipity" - Donna Evans
Quintilian (24.1) - Fall 2013 - "Data Don't Breathe" - James J. Murphy
Nancy Sommers (25.1) - Fall 2014 - "Enter the Process in Uncertainty" - Eric Leake and David Masiel
Kathleen Blake Yancey - (25.2) - Spring 2015 - "It's Their Story That Turns Your Head" - David Masiel, William Sewell, and Hogan Hayes
Carolyn Miller - (27.1) - Fall 2016 - "A Set of Shared Expectations" - Brenda Rinard and David Masiel
Linda Adler-Kassner - (27.2 - Spring 2017 - "Everything Gets to Writing" - Lisa Sperber and Carl Whithaus Appendix: Composition Flow Chart
