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- Title: Testing in and Testing out
- Author : Writing Program Administration
- Release Date : January 22, 2008
- Genre: Education,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 66 KB
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Donahue, Patricia, and Gretchen Flesher Moon, eds. Local Histories: Reading the Archives of Composition. Foreword by Mariolina Rizzi Salvatori. Afterword by Jean Ferguson Carr. U of Pittsburgh P, 2007. The twelve projects that compose Local Histories exemplify the benefits of an edited collection: each thought-provoking piece is a useful contribution to the discipline, but taken together, they provide a compelling vision for historiography and show how scholars working at different sites--with limited materials--can rewrite the larger narratives that have dominated the field for decades. This collection stands out as an exemplary text for archival researchers, but it is also an important resource for WPAs to rethink the field's origin stories and consider what archival contributions a program might generate for posterity. Part of the collection's appeal stems from its origins in a CCCC Special Interest Group established to address the particular concerns of small colleges--a gathering of teacher-scholars who mobilized their research ideas into two large projects: a special issue of Composition Studies (2004) guest edited by Tom Amorose and Paul Hanstedt, and this collection, part of the Pittsburgh Series in Composition, Literacy, and Culture.