Composing a Community: a History of Writing Across the Curriculum

Marc Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Avail. in cloth. Publisher Marketing: Writing across the curriculum is experiencing a renaissance in institutions across the country. People starting or restarting WAC programs will want to read COMPOSING A COMMUNITY: A HISTORY OF WRITING ACROSS THE CURRICULUM. COMPOSING A COMMUNITY is not only a history of early WAC programs but also of how the people de-veloping those programs were in touch with one another, exchanging ideas and information, forming first a network and then a community. COMPOSING A COMMUNITY captures the stories of pioneers like Elaine Maimon, Toby Fulwiler, and others, giving readers first-hand accounts from those who were present at the creation of this new movement. David Russell's introduction sets this emergent narrative into relief. Susan H. McLeod and Margot Iris Soven, themselves pioneers in WAC history, have assembled some of its most eloquent voices in this collection: Charles Bazerman, John C. Bean, Toby Fulwiler, Anne Herrington, Carol Holder, Peshe C. Kuriloff, Linda Peterson, David R. Russell, Christopher Thaiss, Bar-bara E. Walvoord, and Sam Watson. Their style is personal, lively, and informal as the authors succeed in putting their personal memories in the larger context of WAC studies. SUSAN H. MCLEOD is Professor of Writing and Director of the Writing Program at the University of Califor-nia, Santa Barbara. She has published widely on writing across the curriculum and composition. In 2006, she will publish WRITING PROGRAM ADMINISTRATION in Parlor Press's series, Reference Guides to Rhetoric and Composition. MARGOT IRIS SOVEN is Professor of English at La Salle University and is currently the Director of the Core Curriculum and the Writing Fellows Program. She has published widely on writing across the cur-riculum and composition. Her latest book is WHAT THE WRITING TUTOR NEEDS TO KNOW (Thomson-Wadsworth, 2005). Lauer Series in Rhetoric and Compostion Series Editors, Catherine Hobbs and Patricia Sullivan Review Citations: Reference and Research Bk News 02/01/2007 pg. 267 (EAN 9781932559170, Paperback) Contributor Bio:  Bertolucci, Attilio Attilio Bertolucci (1911-2000) is one of the outstanding Italian poets of the 20th century. His work is noted for its directness and narrative interest, in sharp distinction to the hermetic tradition of his day. Born in Parma, he began writing early and published Sirio [Sirius], a small collection of twenty-seven poems set in his native region, at the age of 18. From 1931 to 1935, he studied law at the local university, meanwhile publishing another collection, Fuochi in novembre [Fires in November], in 1934. From 1935 to 1938, he completed studies at the University of Bologna, after which he began teaching art history, all the while writing and contributing poems to literary journals. Moving to Rome in 1951, he published La capanna indiana [The Indian Hut], which won the prestigeous Premio Viareggio the same year. His next book of poetry, Viaggio d'inverno [WINTER JOURNEY (Parlor Press, 2005], appeared in 1971. Beginning in 1975, he headed the literary review Nuovi Argomenti [New Arguments], together with Enzo Siciliano and Alberto Moravia. The narrative poem La camera da letto [THE BEDROOM (Chelsea Editions, 2012)] appeared in 1984. Revised and expanded in 1988, it won the author a second Premio Viareggio. Bertolucci's other books of poetry are La lucertola di Casarola [The Lizard of Casarola] and Opere [Works], both in 1997. Bertolucci also wrote literary criticism and translated from French and English--works by Honore de Balzac, Charles Baudelaire, Thomas Hardy, D. H. Lawrence and others. His sons Bernardo and Giuseppe are famous film directors. Contributor Bio:  Thomson, Jeffrey Jeffrey Thomson is Professor of Creative Writing at the University of Maine, Farmington. He is the author of four books of poems, including Birdwatching in Wartime, winner of both the 2010 Maine Book Award and the 2011 ASLE Award in Environmental Creative Writing, and Renovation. In 2012 he was the Fulbright Distinguished Scholar in Creative Writing at the Seamus Heaney Poetry Centre at Queen's University Belfast and in 2015 he will be the Hodgson Trust-John Carter Brown Fellow at Brown University and the C. V. Starr Center for the Study of the American Experience at Washington College. Contributor Bio:  McLeod, Susan H Susan H. McLeod is a professor of English and an associate dean in the College of Liberal Arts at Washington State University. Contributor Bio:  Soven, Margot Iris Margot Sovin is the Writing Center Director for La Salle University and has trained teachers of composition and peers for the past decade at the university.