Writing on the Ground

Authors

  • Janna Klostermann Carleton University

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.31468/cjsdwr.577

Abstract

This essay responds to the recent “Statement on Writing Centres and Staffing” (Graves, 2016), making visible differing conceptualizations of writing in it. More particularly, I will make visible traces of the statement that position writing as a measurable skill, aligning with the priorities of university administrators, and traces of the statement that position writing as a complex social practice, aligning with the needs of student writers and writing centre tutors/specialists. I trouble understandings of writing that maintain the university as a site of exclusion, while pushing for future contributions that take seriously the everyday, on the ground work of student writers and writing centre tutors/specialists.

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Published

2017-05-16

How to Cite

Klostermann, J. (2017). Writing on the Ground. Discourse and Writing/Rédactologie, 27, 19–23. https://doi.org/10.31468/cjsdwr.577

Issue

Vol. 27 (2017)

Section

Special: The Future of Writing Centres in Canada, Part 2

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