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Surface and Depth: Metalanguage and Professional Development in Canadian Writing Studies
- Author(s):
- Katja Thieme (see profile)
- Date:
- 2019
- Group(s):
- Digital Pedagogy, Public Humanities
- Subject(s):
- Casual labor, Composition (Language arts), Canada, Area studies, Academic writing, Teaching
- Item Type:
- Article
- Tag(s):
- Metalanguage, disciplinary discourse, collective action, Writing studies, Contingent labor, Rhetoric and composition, Canadian studies, Precarity, Pedagogy
- Permanent URL:
- http://dx.doi.org/10.17613/w4zq-t593
- Abstract:
- In the process of mentoring instructors of writing into the field of writing studies, there is a tension between practical surface of writing instruction and underlying theoretical depth. This paper calls for more systematic thinking about that tension between surface and depth. It emphasizes the important roles that metalanguage plays in mediating that tension and points out the indignities of contract employment that in many ways prevent writing instruction in Canada from becoming the deep and thoroughly researched practice it could be.
- Metadata:
- xml
- Published as:
- Journal article
- Status:
- Published
- Last Updated:
- 3 years ago
- License:
- All Rights Reserved
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