Hi Folks,
I’m pleased to share the news that a new book has been added to the WAC Clearinghouse (https://wac.colostate.edu). This book appears in the Perspectives on Writing book series, which is edited by Rich Rice and J. Michael Rifenburg.
Sites of Writing: Essays in Honor of Anne Ruggles Gere
Edited by James Edward Beitler and Sarah Ruffing Robbins
Sites of Writing builds upon the multiple contributions of Anne Ruggles Gere across a long and highly productive career. The chapters in this edited collection, written by leading scholars (including some of Gere’s former students) to track her major contributions to writing studies, situate those contributions within the broader landscape of field development, and draw on those findings to assess important trends and project productive pathways for the future. The contributors to the collection consider disciplinary history, language and literacy, writing across the curriculum, digital rhetoric, writing’s extracurriculum, assessment, and English education, among other areas. Connecting these multiple fields of activity, Sites of Writing affirms Gere’s view of writing as a powerful social and cultural activity and of literacy, broadly conceived, as enabling cultural transformations and, in the process, transforming writing studies and other fields.
You can find the book at https://wac.colostate.edu/books/perspectives/gere/. 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 James, Sarah, and the many chapter authors for their work on the book and for the decision to share it with us as an open-access publication. Thanks as well to the anonymous peer reviewers who contributed to its development. And, of course, many thanks to Anne for her significant contributions to the growth of the field of writing studies, for her thoughtful leadership, and for enriching the lives of so many of us.
All the best,
Mike
Mike Palmquist
Publisher, The WAC Clearinghouse
Emeritus Professor and Emeritus Associate Provost
Colorado State University
Email: Mike.Palmquist
