New: Bazerman's How I Became the Kind of Writer I Became (Book from the WAC Clearinghouse)

[ten grrl]

Hi Folks,

I’m pleased to share the news that the WAC Clearinghouse (https://wac.colostate.edu) has released a new open-access book. It appears in the Lifespan Writing Research book series, which is edited by Ryan Dippre and Talinn Phillips.

How I Became the Kind of Writer I Became: An Experiment in Autoethnography

by Charles Bazerman

In his exploration of his development as one of the most prolific and thoughtful writers in the field of writing studies, Charles Bazerman considers how, like all writers, he has been shaped in distinctive and unique ways by his literate experiences. “Each of our stories is particular,” he writes, calling this book “my experiment in saying what I can from my perspective about my development as a writer.” How I Became the Kind of Writer I Became poses questions about the lifespan development of writing and, in particular, how writing emerges within the “conditions, relations, and needs of life.”

Observing that his autoethnography does not offer a norm or an ideal, Bazerman calls attention to the need for more of these kinds of reflections. “We need many such stories from many kinds of writers,” he notes, “reflecting on what opportunities, needs, experiences, and resources came their way and how they iteratively solved the problem of what to write and how to write it, as they saw it.” As the first book in the Lifespan Writing Research book series, Bazerman’s work serves as both a model for reflective inquiry and a call for additional work in this area.

You can find the book at https://wac.colostate.edu/books/lwr/autoethnography/. 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

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Mike Palmquist

Publisher, The WAC Clearinghouse

https://wac.colostate.edu

   

Professor of English

University Distinguished Teaching Scholar

Colorado State University 

Email: Mike.Pa...@ColoState.edu

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