I’ve taken lately to thinking about the thinspreaden feeling of dissertating
like this: the writing moves in a forward direction, advancing ideas and
discussions, attempting claims, suggesting reasons for limiting the discussion
to these few pages. The reading, on the other hand, moves in a backward
direction, filing through influences before influences before
influences–something like tracking the (non-)origin of the Missouri River.
Writing and reading in this way at once leads to the thinspreaden feeling–it is
a stretch.
Tag: Berthoff
Haynes, "Writing Offshore: The Disappearing Coastline of Composition Theory"
Haynes,
Cynthia. "Writing Offshore: The Disappearing Coastline of Composition
Theory." JAC 23.4 (2003):
667-724.
Lauer-Berthoff, "Counterstatement" and "Response"
Lauer,
Janice. "Response to Ann E. Berthoff, ‘The Problem of Problem Solving.’" CCC 23.2 (1972):
208-210.
Berthoff, Ann E.
"Response to Janice Lauer, ‘Counterstatement.’" CCC 23.5 (1972):
414-416.
Lauer, "Heuristics and Composition"
Lauer, Janice. "Heuristics and Composition." CCC 21.5 (1970): 396-404.
Forming with Small Hands
I’ve been meaning to weave three disparate threads together, triple helix
style; they converged–blink!–for an instant while I was reading the other day, and it seemed like more than another drill.
Who’s running this time? Ann Berthoff, Steve Berlin Johnson, and one more
(Coach: I don’t care who goes, dammit. Fill in the lines.)
First, I’ve got to tell you a bit about the weave: