{"id":6501,"date":"2006-02-07T21:25:03","date_gmt":"2006-02-07T21:25:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.earthwidemoth.com\/blog\/2006\/02\/07\/in-search-of\/"},"modified":"2006-02-07T21:25:03","modified_gmt":"2006-02-07T21:25:03","slug":"in-search-of","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.earthwidemoth.com\/blog\/2006\/02\/07\/in-search-of\/","title":{"rendered":"In Search Of"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">\u23f3 Approximate reading time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> 2<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">mins<\/span><\/span><p>We capped our discussions of Smit&#8217;s <i>The End of Composition Studies<\/i><br \/>\n(2004) and<br \/>\nCosgrove and Barta-Smith&#8217;s <i>In Search of Eloquence<\/i> (2004) in 712 this afternoon.<br \/>\nSmit opens for us with six chapters leading down the skeptic&#8217;s<br \/>\ninfinite regress into complandia&#8217;s hopeless abyss before turning to his<br \/>\nrecommendations for reform. His plans for a refurbished curriculum aren&#8217;t<br \/>\nas despairing as his account of the impossibility of teaching writing. No<br \/>\nscreeching demons, no ravenous hellhounds. In fact, the curriculum pretty well matches with<br \/>\nWriting Across the Curriculum efforts. Smit turns out to be a proponent<br \/>\nof a first-year course called &quot;Introduction to Writing as a Social Practice&quot;<br \/>\n(185). Upper division instructors would share responsibility for teaching the<br \/>\ncourse; &quot;They must,&quot; Smit contends, &quot;be part of a broad university-wide program<br \/>\nthat introduces all novice writers &#8216;slowly but steadily and systematically&#8217; to<br \/>\nnew genres and social contexts, a program that encourages students to develop<br \/>\ntheir &#8216;structural, rhetorical, stylistic facility&#8217; over time (Rose 112)&quot; (188).<br \/>\nThe second tier of Smit&#8217;s curriculum involves discipline-specific courses<br \/>\nemphasizing writing, and the third tier involves &quot;writing outside the classroom&quot;<br \/>\n(190). I&#8217;m sure I&#8217;ll sound glib in characterizing it so flatly, but much<br \/>\nof it sounds, well, familiar enough. A more radical turn, however, comes<br \/>\nin Smit&#8217;s proposal for graduate training:<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Contrary then to current practice, I would propose that graduate programs<br \/>\n  in composition studies be organized in order to promote the training of<br \/>\n  compositionists as writers of particular kinds of discourse, as scholars of<br \/>\n  particular discourse communities, and as specialists in pedagogy&#8230;. In fact,<br \/>\n  I think it would be helpful if we abolished the expression &#8216;writing<br \/>\n  instructor&#8217; and replaced it with a title that includes the kind of discourse<br \/>\n  the instructor teaches: newspaper editorial instructor, for example; or<br \/>\n  biology lab report instructor. (195)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Smit pushes dual-specializations, the combination of advanced studies in<br \/>\nwriting and rhetoric with advanced studies in the discourses of particular<br \/>\nfields. The <i>individual<\/i>, according to this model, bridges the<br \/>\nexpanses between distinctive disciplinary forms of expertise and writing genres<br \/>\n(in and out of school settings). In sharp contrast to Smit&#8217;s model of WAC,<br \/>\nCosgrove and Barta-Smith approach WAC by enlisting their colleagues, involving them in ongoing<br \/>\nconversations about their perceptions of the writing done in their field of<br \/>\nexpertise, both in and out of school. Their model values conversation; it is clearly more<br \/>\ncooperative, more networked, than Smit&#8217;s: <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Each of the moves we see ourselves and our colleagues making in order to<br \/>\n  perpetuate our discourse&#8211;the mutual moldings of common meaning, the<br \/>\n  affirmations, the restatements, the discoveries or sharings of common<br \/>\n  experience or knowledge&#8211;seem born out of a desire to stretch, rather than<br \/>\n  eliminate, the confines of the knowledge and language bequeathed to us by our<br \/>\n  disciplines. (61)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The conversational methods used by Cosgrove and Barta-Smith are<br \/>\ntime-intensive, and they depend on shared respect, cross-disciplinary<br \/>\naccountability, and recognition of the knowledge and insight folks from<br \/>\ndifferent areas have to offer each other. Their model is ambitious, and it<br \/>\nmight be impossible to implement at larger institutions (although they carry 4:4<br \/>\nloads at Slippery Rock, where they held the conversations, conducted the study).<br \/>\nYet because it emphasizes conversations about attitudes and understandings of<br \/>\nwriting held by specific faculty in other fields and also seeks to integrate<br \/>\nthose perspectives with the work of teaching lower division writing courses, it<br \/>\nbears greater promise, I&#8217;d say, than beefed up training for graduate students in<br \/>\ncomposition and rhetoric. Cosgrove and Barta-Smith&#8217;s connective, institution-wide &quot;search&quot;<br \/>\nmakes composition&#8217;s future appear much brighter than does a notion of added<br \/>\ntraining for islanded instructors (of somediscourse).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">\u23f3 Approximate reading time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> 2<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">mins<\/span><\/span>We capped our discussions of Smit&#8217;s The End of Composition Studies (2004) and Cosgrove and Barta-Smith&#8217;s In Search of Eloquence (2004) in 712 this afternoon. Smit opens for us with six chapters leading down the skeptic&#8217;s infinite regress into complandia&#8217;s hopeless abyss before turning to his recommendations for reform. 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