Yancey's 2004 keynote
As we think about target composition journals and themes rather than tech journals, I keep thinking about Yancey's 2004 CCCC keynote speech. It was electrifying and really important for the field. I want to suggest that we might refer to some of her themes, either in our opening or closing (or both) as a way to resonate with the composition audience. I think I will give relevant excerpts from Palmquist's summary, and if you think it is worth pursuing, I will dig out the CCC version and work it into the draft.
Yancey’s relevant keynote address themes:
Theme #1: Yancey identified three areas where change should occur: the development of a new composition curriculum, the assessment and revision of our writing-across-the-curriculum efforts, and the creation of a major in composition and rhetoric.
Theme #2: Yancey’s discussion of the development of a major addressed the importance of considering information technologies as sites of production and distribution of writing. She also addressed the implications of the process movement in composition studies and the challenges posed by post-process theorists to that movement.
Theme #3: Yancey suggested that we pursue a new model of teaching writing that pays attention to issues that are not addressed by the current model, including:
* Intertextual circulation – or, more concretely, how the writing that our students do relates to writing in the world
* The media through which texts might be delivered
* The remediation of texts across delivery media and the implications of remediation for “what moves forward, what gets left out, what gets added—and what they have learned about composing in this transfer process”
* Preparation to become members of the writing public
Yancey’s discussion of the model focused on three key areas: the circulation of composition, the canons of rhetoric, and the deicity of technology.
Linda
posted by jeremiah @ 2:06 PM
3 Comments:
Thanks for reminding me of Yancey's keynote, Linda. I agree that we should use it as we target composition journals. I'll pull it off the shelf and go back through it with our article in mind.
Personally, I'd like to see us initially target CCC and, depending on the response we get from them, go to WPA. I think our message/article deserves, and will benefit from, the larger CCC audience.
mp
Yes--certainly--the Yancey piece is a great way to get our readers into our article.
JD
I'll add my opinion that if we begin with Yancey, we should also begin with Nedra's, Libby's, and my CCCC panel on the major, which explicitly oriented itself around Yancey's address.
Invoking this panel might be a nice way to combine the setup that Linda is suggesting--"we're addressing a key concern for the field"--and one I have been developing--"our faculty has been hard at work on this major for some time now; here's a tiny piece of what we've been doing."
I'd like to take a stab at this intro, too, once we're farther along in the body sections.
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