The Writing Center as Cultural and Interdisciplinary Contact Zone By Randall W Monty Hardcover 1137540931 9781137540935 The Writing Center as Cultural and Interdisciplinary Contact Zone Writing centers are complex. They are places of scholarly work, spaces of interdisciplinary interaction, and programs of service, among other things. With this complexity in mind, this book theorizes writing center studies as a function of its own rhetorical and discursive practices. In other words, the things we do and make define who we are and what we value. Through a comprehensive methodological framework grounded in critical discourse analysis, this book takes a closer look at prominent writing center discourses by temporarily shifting attention away from the stakeholders, work, locations, and scholarship of the discipline, and onto things―the artifacts and networks that make up the discipline. Through this approach, we can see the ways the discipline reinforces, challenges, reproduces, and subverts structures of institutional power. As a result, writing center studies can be seen a vast ecosystem of interconnectivity and intertextuality.

I admired both the theory and rigor behind this book but felt it was a little thin on narrative examples that could help it to be engaging and relatable for readers who hope to see how Monty s observations and analyses might impact writing center praxis 1137540931

The Writing Center as Cultural and Interdisciplinary Contact Zone By Randall W Monty

1137540931

9781137540935

English

161

Hardcover

Writing centers are complex They are places of scholarly work spaces of interdisciplinary interaction and programs of service among other things With this complexity in mind this book theorizes writing center studies as a function of its own rhetorical and discursive practices In other words the things we do and make define who we are and what we value Through a comprehensive methodological framework grounded in critical discourse analysis this book takes a closer look at prominent writing center discourses by temporarily shifting attention away from the stakeholders work locations and scholarship of the discipline and onto things the artifacts and networks that make up the discipline Through this approach we can see the ways the discipline reinforces challenges reproduces and subverts structures of institutional power As a result writing center studies can be seen a vast ecosystem of interconnectivity and intertextuality The Writing Center as Cultural and Interdisciplinary Contact Zone.