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Sent: Wednesday, September 18, 2013 12:57 PM Many of us who specialize in rhetoric and composition remain in MLA, hoping that the organization will indeed come to acknowledge fully our field's surging role in the humanities. And of course it is hard to have much of a say in revision of the organization's structure if one doesn't belong to it. That said, those of us who are currently on the Executive Committee of MLA's Division on The Teaching of Writing are quite disappointed that the restructuring proposal, in its present draft form, allocates our field just the current two divisions. For the record, our Executive Committee recommended the creation of several new divisions. Specifically, if MLA wanted to keep rhetoric and composition reasonably distinct from literary study, we called for new divisions in Rhetorical Arts Literacy Studies Technical and Scientific Writing Global English Research on Writing Multimodal Composing Writing Program Administration And if MLA wanted to pursue more integrated models, we envisioned new divisions focused on Digital Media and Composition Rhetoric Pedagogy Global English Research on Writing Administration in English Science and Technology Studies Literacy and Print Culture Professional Issues I think that in the days to come, you will see posted at the MLA site more comments expressing concerns about our field's role in the present draft proposal. I am preparing a response of my own that will remind the restucturing committee of the constructive suggestions our group made. Meanwhile, let's keep in mind that numerous specialists in rhetoric and composition are still MLA members, whatever its periodic blows to our hopes. John Schilb Culbertson Chair of Writing Professor of English Indiana University, Bloomington Quoting H-Rhetor <lvavra@UIC.EDU>: > From: Janice Lauer Rice [mailto:jmlauer@purdue.edu] > Sent: Wednesday, September 18, 2013 11:31 AM > > Thanks Steve for alerting us to this effort. > > One reason why there have not been more comments from R/C (Rhetoric > and > Composition) people on the developing new MLA list may be that posting > a comment entails being a "logged-in member of MLA Commons." Many > former R/C members of MLA have left the organization because of > dissatisfaction with its applicability to their work. Also notice the > membership of the MLA Working Group that is revising this list. > > Yet if one wants to get a sense of R/C's magnitude, one can check the > percentage of "Writing," "Composition" and "Rhetoric and Composition" > positions available in this year's MLA Job List online map: > <http.rhetmap.org>. > > "Rhetoric, Composition, and Writing" should not be under "Language Studies" > but rather should be a seventh broad thematic category, including the > "Teaching of Writing." > > Janice Lauer > > > > > On 9/18/13 10:15 AM, H-Rhetor wrote: >> From: sjmaillo@uci.edu [mailto:sjmaillo@uci.edu] >> Sent: Wednesday, September 18, 2013 12:31 AM >> >> I'd like to urge the MLA members on this list to respond to the draft >> proposal for restructuring MLA division and discussion groups, which >> is now available at the MLA Commons website. The proposed >> restructuring provides a unique opportunity for us to increase the >> visibility and influence of rhetorical studies, broadly understood, >> including the theory and history of rhetoric. >> >> If you are interested in joining the discussion or in just seeing how >> it is progressing, go to >> <http://groupsdiscussion.commons.mla.org/draft-proposal/> >> and click on "Rhetoric, Composition, and Writing Studies." >> >> Steve Mailloux >> >> -- >> >> -- >> > > -- > > -- > -- --
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