An expansive look at the discipline of writing studies, with a focus
on serving and supporting first-year writing students and instructors at
open access institutions.
There is a huge gap between perceptions of the field of writing studies
and the material realities of those who teach in it. Materiality and
Writing Studies: Aligning Labor, Scholarship, and Teaching argues for
the centering of the field's research and service on first-year writing,
particularly the "new majority" of college students (who are more
diverse than ever before) and those who teach them.
The book features the voices of first-year writing instructors at a
two-year, open-access, multi-campus institution whose students are
consistently underrepresented in discussions of the discipline. Drawing
from a study of 78 two-year college student writers and an analysis of
nearly two decades of issues of the major journals in the field of
writing studies, Holly Hassel and Cassandra Phillips sketch out a
reimagined vision for writing studies that roots the scholarship,
research, and service in the discipline squarely within the changing
material realities of contemporary college writing instruction.
About the CCCC Studies in Writing & Rhetoric (SWR) Series
In this series, the methods of studies vary from the critical to
historical to linguistic to ethnographic, and their authors draw on work
in various fields that inform composition--including rhetoric,
communication, education, discourse analysis, psychology, cultural
studies, and literature. Their focuses are similarly diverse--ranging
from individual writers and teachers, to classrooms and communities and
curricula, to analyses of the social, political, and material contexts
of writing and its teaching.
