Contents
Introduction: Seniority in Writing Studies by Norbert Elliot
1. Inside the Wave: The Professionalization and Future of Technical and Professional Communication by Jo Allen
Response: Turning toward Social Justice Approaches to Technical and Professional Communication by Michelle F. Eble
2. Talking Brought Me Here: Sociolinguistics and African American Life by Akua Duku Anokye
Response: Still Talking: Embracing Varieties, World Englishes, and the Power of Words by Patricia Friedrich
3. “The Times, They Are A-Changin’ ”: Reflections on the Evolution of Research and Policy in Large-Scale Writing Assessments by Doug Baldwin
Response: “You Better Start Swimmin’ or You’ll Sink Like a Stone”: How Assessment Keeps Changin’ by Devon Tomasulo
4. Learning from the National Writing Project as a Kindergarten-University Partnership: Talking Back and Forth by Judy Buchanan and Richard Sterling
Response: Talking Back and Forth between Memory and Legacy in the National Writing Project by Anne Elrod Whitney
5. Intimate Machines: Cultivating Wisdom in Elder Gardens by Hugh Burns
Response: Toward a Research Agenda for Digital Intimacy by Ann N. Amicucci
6. Assessment as a By-Product of Ongoing Research: Identifying, Describing, and Nourishing a Campus Culture of Teaching and Learning by William Condon
Response: From Assessment as Research to Empirical Education by Michael Truong
7. A Bedford Story: Taking the Measure of a Publisher by Joan Feinberg
Response: On Being Useful by Leasa Burton
8. Framing and Facing Histories of Rhetoric and Composition: Composition-Rhetoric in the Time of the Dartmouth Conference by Cinthia Gannett and John C. Brereton
Response: History Has Moved through Us by Katherine E. Tirabassi
9. Writing Wisdom: A Meditative Quilt by Eli Goldblatt
Response: Doors, Walls, and the Paradox of Not Knowing by Jessica Restaino
Response: Legacy and Invitation by Paige Davis Arrington, with Ann E. Berthoff
10. “Bottomless Mysteries” on the Margins: A Dream Interview by Janis Haswell and Richard Haswell
Response: Toward Open Exchanges in a Networked World by Stacey Pigg
11. Aging through the Thirty-Year Rise of Professionalized Writing Administration by Douglas Hesse
Response: Embracing the Accidental Trajectory by Eliana Schonberg
12. Reading Old and New: An Autobiography and an Argument by Alice S. Horning
Response: Discovering Reading by Ellen C. Carillo
13. Rewriting the Language(s) of Language Differences in Writing by Min-Zhan Lu and Bruce Horner
Response: Not Trajectory but Translation: Talking Back with and to Min-Zhan Lu and Bruce Horner by Dylan B. Dryer
14. Starting from Scratch: Practicing and Teaching the Work of Words by Donald McQuade
Response: The Goal of Teaching Is to Become Obsolete by Eric Heltzel
15. Rethinking Basic Writing: Reflections on Language, Education, and Opportunity by Rebecca Williams Mlynarczyk
Response: A Reckoning for Basic Writing by Sean Molloy
16. Contact Zones across the Disciplines by Les Perelman
Response: Writing Research across Disciplinary Boundaries by Suzanne Lane
17. Identity Work: Continuities and Transformations in the Senior Years by Louise Wetherbee Phelps
Response: Reading Identity Work through a Disability Lens: Care, Bodies, and Time by Elisabeth L. Miller
18. Raciolinguistics and the “Mis-education of the Negro”—and You Too: Race, Language, and the Elder in “Post-Racial” America by Geneva Smitherman
Response: “I Love My African American Language. And Yours”: Toward a Raciolinguistic Vision in Writing Studies by Shenika Hankerson
19. Valuing New Approaches for Tenure and Promotion for WAC/WID Scholar/Administrators: Advice for Higher Education and the Writing Studies Community by Martha A. Townsend
Response: Community: A Response to Marty Townsend by J. Michael Rifenburg
Our Concluding Thoughts: Reflections on Seniority, Mentoring, Genres, and Cross-Generational Collaboration by Martha A. Townsend and J. Michael Rifenburg
20. Mode Meshing: Before the New World Was New by Victor Villanueva
Response: Becoming in the New World by Asao B. Inoue
21. Fifty Years of Curriculum Changes: Looking In and Looking Out in College Writing Classes by Edward M. White
Response: Shaped by the (Disciplinary) Past: An Intergenerational Response to Edward M. White by Sherry Rankins-Robertson
22. The Composing of Seniors: Navigating Needs, Tasks, and Social Practices by Kathleen Blake Yancey
Response: The Composing of the 41 Percent: A Response to Kathleen by Blake Yancey Jennifer Enoch
Afterword: Toward an Even Longer View by Ruth Ray Karpen
About the Authors
Index