Chapters in this book

1. Front Matter i
2. Contents v
3. Seniority in Writing Studies 3
4. Inside The Wave 27
5. Talking Brought Me Here 43
6. “The Times , They Are A-Changin’ ” 56
7. Learning From The National Writing Project As A Kindergarten-University Partnership 73
8. Intimate Machines 90
9. Assessment as a By-Product of Ongoing Research 107
10. A Bedford Story 123
11. Framing and Facing Histories of Rhetoric and Composition 139
12. Writing Wisdom 158
13. “Bottomless Mysteries” On The Margins 173
14. Aging Through The Thirty-Year Rise of Professionalized Writing Admini Stration 189
15. Reading Old And New 210
16. Rewriting The Language(s) of Language Differences In Writing 225
17. Starting From Scratch 241
18. Rethinking Basic Writing 261
19. Contact Zones Across The Disciplines 277
20. Identity Work 294
21. Raciolinguistics and The “Mis-Education of The Negro”—and You Too 312
22. Valuing New Approaches For Tenure and Promotion for Wac/Wid Scholar/Admini Strators 326
23. Mode Meshing 343
24. Fifty Years of Curriculum Changes 259
25. The Composing of Seniors 376
26. Toward an Even Longer View 392
27. About The Authors 405
28. Index 416