New on-line collection: Writing Selves/Writing Societies

From: David R. Russell (drrussel@iastate.edu)
Date: Thu Mar 13 2003 - 17:58:08 PST


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Announcing a new free electronic book: Writing Selves/Writing
Societies: Research from Activity Perspectives, edited by Charles
Bazerman and David Russell. The collection is published solely in
electronic format (html and pdf) by The WAC Clearinghouse (writing
studies) and Mind, Culture, Activity (cultural psychology).

This collection brings together fourteen new empirical studies of
writing as it is used in a range of activities-educational,
workplace, civic, and personal. Our goal is to show the commonalties
in research on writing and activity, and to spark interdisciplinary
dialog among researchers who use activity approaches to writing.

The collection also launches a new, non-commercial academic
publishing venture, to provide-free of charge-important new research
on writing in the Perspectives on Writing series from The WAC
Clearinghouse. These online books will cross disciplinary boundaries
and offer research that commercial academic publishers are
increasingly unwilling to support.

To access Writing Selves/Writing Societies: Research from Activity
Perspectives, (html and pdf versions), point your browser to
http://wac.colostate.edu/books/selves_societies/

Yours,

Charles Bazerman and David R. Russell, editors

P.S. We would very much appreciate it if you would email your
acquisitions librarian and ask that the book be put in your
institution's electronic library catalog (this is also free of
charge). Library catalog listings will make the book much more
widely available.

Publication Information: Bazerman, Charles, and Russell, David. 2003.
Writing Selves/Writing Societies: Research from Activity
Perspectives. Perspectives on Writing. Fort Collins, Colorado: The
WAC Clearinghouse and Mind, Culture, and Activity.
ISBN 0-9727023-1-8.
Library of Congress Control Number: 2003100499
Books in Print (Bowker) Number: 8343039
Available at: http://wac.colostate.edu/books/selves_societies/

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David R. Russell Professor English Department Iowa State University Ames, IA 50011 USA (515) 294-4724 Fax (515) 294-6814 drrussel@iastate.edu http://www.public.iastate.edu/~drrussel/drresume.html



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