Hi Folks,
I’m pleased to share the news that another new book has been added to the WAC Clearinghouse (https://wac.colostate.edu). This book appears in the Practices & Possibilities book series, which is edited by Aimee McClure, Kelly Ritter, Aleashia Walton, and Jagadish Paudel.
Unfinished Business: Thoughts on the Past, Present, Future, and Nurturing of Homo Scribens
By Charles Bazerman
In Unfinished Business, Charles Bazerman considers long-standing puzzles in writing studies, from the most fundamental ideas about humans as writers and writing as constituting modern society to the most practical issues of curriculum and teaching. Together, the chapters provide a broad vision of the importance, role, consequences, and means of writing. The opening cluster of chapters places Homo sapiens’ capacity to write within the biological and cultural evolutionary arc. The second cluster of chapters focuses on how writing has extended and transformed our knowledge with major consequences for us as societies and individuals. The third cluster considers how we go about teaching this increasingly important skill that gives people voice in the literate world. The fourth reflects on the values and ethical concerns that pervade the practice and teaching of writing. In his final chapter, Bazerman speculates about where writing and writing instruction may go in the rapidly changing future.
You can find the book at https://wac.colostate.edu/books/practice/unfinished/. This book, like other books published by the Clearinghouse, will be available in a print edition from University Press of Colorado in the coming months. Thanks to Chuck for his work on the book and for his decision to share it with us as an open-access publication. Thanks as well to the anonymous peer reviewers who contributed to its development.
All the best,
Mike Palmquist
Publisher, The WAC Clearinghouse
Emeritus Professor, Associate Provost, and
University Distinguished Teaching Scholar
Colorado State University
Email: Mike.Palmquist