Writing in Knowledge Societies

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The editors of WRITING IN KNOWLEDGE SOCIETIES provide a thoughtful, carefully constructed collection that addresses the vital roles rhetoric and writing play as knowledge-making practices in diverse knowledge-intensive settings. The essays in this book examine the multiple, subtle, yet consequential ways in which writing is epistemic, articulating the central role of writing in creating, shaping, sharing, and contesting knowledge in a range of human activities in workplaces, civic settings, and higher education.

Sujets

• Philosophie
• Épistémologie
• Epistémologie
• Epistémologie
• Epistémologie
• Epistemology
• Philosophy
• Philosophie et théologie

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• Publié par: Parlor Press, LLC
• Date de parution: 15 novembre 2011
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9781602352711
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 1 Mo

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WRITING IN KNOWLEDGE SOCIETIES
Edited by Doreen Starke-Meyerring, Anthony Paré, Natasha Artemeva
Miriam Horne, amd Larissa Yousoubova
The WAC Clearinghouse
wac.colostate.edu
Fort Collins, Colorado
Parlor Press
www.parlorpress.com
Anderson, South Carolina


PERSPECTIVES ON WRITING
Series Editor, Susan H. McLeod
The Perspectives on Writing series addresses writing studies in a broad sense. Consistent with the wide ranging approaches characteristic of teaching and scholarship in writing across the curriculum, the series presents works that take divergent perspectives on working as a writer, teaching writing, administering writing programs, and studying writing in its various forms.
The WAC Clearinghouse and Parlor Press are collaborating so that these books will be widely available through free digital distribution and low-cost print editions. The publishers and the Series editor are teachers and researchers of writing, committed to the principle that knowledge should freely circulate. We see the opportunities that new technologies have for further democratizing knowledge. And we see that to share the power of writing is to share the means for all to articulate their needs, interest, and learning into the great experiment of literacy.
Other Books in the Series
Charles Bazerman and David R. Russell (Eds.), W riting Selves/Writing Societies (2003)
Gerald P. Delahunty and James Garvey, The English Language: From Sound to Sense (2009)
Charles Bazerman, Adair Bonini, and Débora Figueiredo (Eds.), Genre in a Changing World (2009)
David Franke, Alex Reid, and Anthony Di Renzo (Eds.), Design Discourse: Composing and Revising Programs in Professional and Technical Writing (2010)
Martine Courant Rife, Shaun Slattery, and Dànielle Nicole DeVoss (Eds.), Copy(write) : Intellectual Property in the Writing Classroom (2011)


Publication Information
The WAC Clearinghouse, Fort Collins, Colorado 80523
Parlor Press, 3015 Brackenberry Drive, Anderson, South Carolina 29621
© 2011 by Doreen Starke-Meyerring, Anthony Paré, Natasha Artemeva, Miriam Horne, and Larissa Yousoubova. This work is released under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 United States License.
ISBN 978-0-97270-237-9 (pdf) | 978-0-97270-238-6 (epub) | 978-1-60235-268-1 (pbk.)
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Produced in the United States of America
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Writing in knowledge societies / edited by Doreen Starke-Meyerring ... [et al.]. p. cm. -- (Perspectives on writing)
Includes bibliographical references.
ISBN 978-1-60235-268-1 (pbk. : acid-free paper) -- ISBN 978-1-60235-269-8 (hardcover : acid-free paper) -- ISBN 978-0-97270-237-9 (pdf) -- ISBN 978-0-97270-238-6 (epub)
1. Authorship--History. 2. Academic writing. 3. Scholarly electronic publishing . I. Starke-Meyerring, Doreen, 1966-
PN149.W76 2011
808.02--dc23
2011042910
Copyeditor: Amanda Purnell
Designers: Mike Palmquist and Adam Mackie
Series Editor: Susan H. McLeod
The WAC Clearinghouse supports teachers of writing across the disciplines. Hosted by Colorado State University, it brings together scholarly journals and book series as well as resources for teachers who use writing in their courses. This book is available in digital format for free download at wac.colostate.edu .
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Acknowledgment
We wish to acknowledge the research funding provided by the Social Sciences and Humanities Council of Canada in support of two CASDW (Canadian Association for the Study of Discourse and Writing) conferences, Writing in the Knowledge Society (Toronto, Canada, May 28-30, 2006) and Writing in Changing Communities—Communities Writing Change (Saskatoon, Canada, May 27-29, 2007), from which the chapters in this book emerged.


Contents
Writing in Knowledge Societies
1 The Roles of Writing In Knowledge Societies: Questions, Exigencies, and Implications for the Study and Teaching of Writing
Doreen Starke-Meyerring and Anthony Paré
Conceptual, Methodological, and Historical Perspectives on Studying Writing as an Epistemic Practice
2 Investigating Texts in their Social Contexts: The Promise and Peril of Rhetorical Genre Studies
Catherine F. Schryer
3 “Curious Gentlemen”: The Hudson’s Bay Company and the Royal Society, Business and Science in the Eighteenth Century
Janet Giltrow
4 Electrons Are Cheap; Society Is Dear
Charles Bazerman
Writing as Knowledge Work in Public and Professional Settings
5 Risk Knowledge and Risk Communication: The Rhetorical Challenge of Public Dialogue
Philippa Spoel and Chantal Barriault
6 The Evolution of an Environmentalist Group Toward Public Participation: Civic Knowledge Construction and Transgressive Identities
Diana Wegner
7 Making Legal Knowledge in Global Digital Environments: The Judicial Opinion as Remix
Martine Courant Rife
8 Understanding and Supporting Knowledge Work in Schools, Workplaces, and Public Life
William Hart-Davidson and Jeffrey T. Grabill
The Role of Writing in the Production of Knowledge in Research Environments
9 Rhetoric, Knowledge, and “The Brute Facts of Nature” in Science Research
Heather Graves
10 Disciplines and Discourses: Social Interactions in the Construction of Knowledge
Ken Hyland
11 Knowledge and Identity Work in the Supervision of Doctoral Student Writing: Shaping Rhetorical Subjects
Anthony Paré, Doreen Starke-Meyerring, and Lynn McAlpine
12 Writing into the Knowledge Society: A Case Study of Vulnerability in Inkshedding
Miriam Horne
The Teaching of Writing as an Epistemic Practice in Higher Education
13 Writing and Knowledge Making: Insights from an Historical Perspective
Paul M. Rogers and Olivia Walling
14 Reinventing WAC (again): The First-Year Seminar and Academic Literacy 1
Doug Brent
15 A Code of Ethics as a Collaborative Learning Tool: Comparing a Face-To-Face Engineering Team and Multidisciplinary Online Teams
Anne Parker and Amanda Goldrick-Jones
16 “An Engrained Part of My Career”: The Formation of a Knowledge Worker in the Dual Space of Engineering Knowledge and Rhetorical Process
Natasha Artemeva
17 International Students and Identity: Resisting Dominant Ways of Writing and Knowing in Academe
Heekyeong Lee and Mary H. Maguire
Articulating and Implementing Rhetoric and Writing as a Knowledge-Making Practice in Higher Education
18 Representing Writing: A Rhetoric for Change
Roger Graves
19 Building Academic Community through a Town Hall Forum: Rhetorical Theories in Action
Tania Smith
20 Talking the Talk and Walking the Walk: Establishing the Academic Role of Writing Centres
Margaret Procter
Author and Editor Institutional Affiliations


Writing in Knowledge Societies


1. The Roles of Writing In Knowledge Societies: Questions, Exigencies, and Implications for the Study and Teaching of Writing
Doreen Starke-Meyerring and Anthony Paré
For as long as human beings have used it to organize and conduct their activities, writing has played an integral role in the creation, sharing, and contestation of knowledge. Tracing the intertwined history of writing and secular knowledge of civilizations in Europe, the Middle East, the Mediterranean, China, India, and Mesoamerica, and Europe, Bazerman and Rogers (2008a, b), for example, map out the complex ways in which writing has been instrumental to the formation of knowledge institutions, disciplines, and communities. In the last few decades, however, the question about the role of writing in the production of knowledge has gained new salience with the rise of what has commonly been termed the knowledge society, where civic life as well as much economic activity depend on the production and sharing of knowledge. Indeed, according to some estimates, knowledge accounts for about three fourths of the value produced in the knowledge economy (Neef, 1998, ctd. in Brandt, 2005), rendering it “more valuable than land, equipment, or even money” (Brandt, p. 167). And because much of this knowledge is created, shared, inscribed, contested, and used largely through various textual forms, writing has moved centre stage in all sectors of society.
As Brandt (2005) observes in her study of writing in contemporary knowledge-intensive organizations, with its integral role in the production of knowledge, writing fuels the knowledge economy, with written products becoming “the chief vehicles for economic transactions and the chief ground for making profits or achieving advantage” (p. 180), so that “such high-stakes factors as corporate reputation, client base, licensing, competitive advantage, growth, and profit rely on what and how people write” (p. 174). In short, writing has become an important means of production and as such forms a vital component of the epistemological infrastructure of knowledge-intensive organizations and societies. In Brandt’s (2005) words, writing has become “hot property” (p. 167). In addition, as a growing body of research in writing studies indicates, writing is vital to citizen participation in the shaping of public knowledge, in policy deliberation, and in public decision making (e.g., Flower, 2008; Grabill, 2007; Long, 2008). Not coincidentally, as Bazerman (2008) observes, th