Hi Folks,
I’m pleased to share the news that another new open-access book has been added to the WAC Clearinghouse (https://wac.colostate.edu). This book appears in the Perspectives on Writing Series, which is edited by Rich Rice, Heather M. Falconer, and J. Michael Rifenburg.
A Writer Reforms (the Teaching of) Writing: Donald Murray and the Writing Process Movement, 1963–1987
By Michael J. Michaud
In this archival investigation, Michael J. Michaud examines the life and work of Donald M. Murray, an important disciplinary and educational reformer who has for too long been misunderstood, caricatured, and dismissed by many writing studies theorists and historians. Focusing on Murray’s work at the University of New Hampshire from the 1960s to the 1980s, Michaud offers a corrective intended to establish a new legacy for Murray. Grounded in an understanding of the significance of his personal backstory to his reform efforts and narrated through the lens of a close reading of the day-to-day details of his work during the heady years of the writing process movement, A Writer Reforms (the Teaching of) Writing recounts the numerous innovations Murray contributed to composition pedagogy and traces the impact of his work on the growth of the field during a critical period in its development.
You can find the book at https://wac.colostate.edu/books/perspectives/murray/. 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 Michael 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
Mike Palmquist
Publisher, The WAC Clearinghouse
Professor of English
University Distinguished Teaching Scholar
Colorado State University
Email: Mike.Palmquist
“Intelligence plus character—that is the goal of true education.”
– Martin Luther King, Jr.
