Lauer Series in Rhetoric and Composition
Series Editors, Catherine Hobbs and Patricia Sullivan
The Lauer Series in Rhetoric and Composition honors the contributions Janice Lauer Hutton has made to the emergence of Rhetoric and Composition as a disciplinary study. It publishes scholarship that carries on Professor Lauer’s varied work in the history of written rhetoric, disciplinarity in composition studies, contemporary pedagogical theory, and written literacy theory and research.
Other Books in the Series
1977: A Cultural Moment in Composition by Brent Henze, Jack Selzer, and Wendy Sharer (2007)
Untenured Faculty as Writing Program Administrators: Institutional Practices and Politics, edited by Debra Frank Dew and Alic Horning (2007)
Composing a Community: A History of Writing Across the Curriculum, edited by Susan H. McLeod and Margot Soven (2006)
Historical Studies of Writing Program Administration: Individuals, Communities, and the Formation of a Discipline, edited by Barbara L’Eplattenier and Lisa Mastrangelo (2004).
Rhetorics, Poetics, and Cultures: Refiguring College English Studies (Expanded Edition) by James A. Berlin (2003)
Networked Process
Dissolving Boundaries of Process and Post-Process
Helen Foster
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Foster, Helen, 1950-
Networked process : dissolving boundaries of process and post-process / Helen Foster.
p. cm. -- (Lauer Series in Rhetoric and Composition)
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 978-1-60235-019-9 (pbk. : alk. paper) -- ISBN 978-1-60235-020-5 (hardcover : alk. paper) -- ISBN 978-1-60235-021-2 (adobe ebook)
1. English language--Rhetoric. 2. Report writing. I. Title.
PE1404.F67 2007
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For Kate and Janice
Contents
1 Profiling Process and Post-Process
Entrance of Post-Process Theory into the Discourse of Rhetoric and Composition
Post-Process Moniker and the Discourse of Rhetoric and Composition
Post-Process Scholarship and the Social/Cultural Turn
Critiques of Process within Strand Two Post-Process
Calls for Reform within Strand Two Post-Process
Repercussions for a Post-Process Profession within Strand Two Post-Process
Post-Process Scholarship that Positions Itself Beyond That of the Social/Cultural Turn
A Few Rejoinders to Thomas Kent’s Edited Post-Process Collection
Process, Post-Process: A Point of Stasis
Writing Process/Post-Process Unbound: Networked Process
2 Exploring Networked Process in James Berlin’s Cognitive Maps
“Current-Traditional Rhetoric: Paradigm and Practice”
“Contemporary Composition: The Major Pedagogical Theories”
Writing Instruction in Nineteenth-Century American Colleges
Rhetoric and Reality: Writing Instruction in American Colleges, 1900–1985
“Rhetoric and Ideology in the Writing Class”
The Platform That Berlin Built
Subjectivity: Entering the Network
Articulating Networked Process: Mapping Networked Subjectivity
Space/Time/History
Language/Discourse
Self
Alterity/Other/Horizon
Addressivity/Answerability