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OverviewPivotal Strategies examines the rhetorical contexts and motivations that determine how and why people choose writing studies as a discipline, especially as the field begins to take more seriously an antiracist imperative that requires more conscious listening and promotion of work from scholars representing traditionally underrepresented voices. Because undergraduate degrees in writing studies are relatively new, claiming the discipline has required reinvention and revision at personal and professional levels far different than any other discipline. Suspicions about the viability of the discipline linger in many departments and universities, as well as outside the academy, leading writing studies scholars to develop innovative strategies to deal with covertly hostile attitudes. Within the collection, contributors name explicit claiming strategies from the discipline’s beginnings to the contemporary moment, locating opportune spaces, negotiating identities and fostering resilience, and developing allegiances by foregrounding their embodiment as underrepresented members of academia through a commitment to social justice and equity. Responding to current conversations on the worth of education with honest stories about the burdens and joys of becoming and being an academic, Pivotal Strategies features a spectrum of voices across racial, gender, class, and age categories. This collection not only makes the discipline more visible but also helps map the contemporary state of writing studies. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Lynn C. LewisPublisher: University Press of Colorado Imprint: University Press of Colorado Dimensions: Width: 15.20cm , Height: 1.80cm , Length: 22.90cm Weight: 0.454kg ISBN: 9781646426324ISBN 10: 1646426320 Pages: 270 Publication Date: 15 July 2024 Recommended Age: From 18 to 99 years Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Not yet available ![]() This item is yet to be released. You can pre-order this item and we will dispatch it to you upon its release. Table of ContentsReviews"""Beautiful writing, innovative arguments, and powerful evidence."" --Ryan Skinnell, San Jose State University" Author InformationLynn C. Lewis is associate professor and director of rhetoric and writing studies in the English Department at Oklahoma State University. She studies visual rhetorics and design as well as writing pedagogy, rhetorical studies, and writing technologies; is the editor of Strategic Discourse: The Politics of (New) Literacy Discourse; and has published in journals such as JAC: A Journal of Rhetoric, Culture, and Politics and Pedagogy, among others. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |