Talk, Tools, and Texts: A Logic-in-Use for Studying Lifespan Literate Action Development
By Ryan J. Dippre
Copy edited by Don Donahue. Designed by Mike Palmquist.
Talk, Tools, and Texts tackles a perplexing issue: how can we envision writing as developing throughout a lifetime, from the first purposeful marks made on paper to the last? How can we make accounts of writing development that keep the complexity of our lives in mind while also providing useful insight to researchers, teachers, and writers?
Drawing on eleven accounts of writers at different points in the lifespan (ages 12 to 80) and in different social circumstances (from a middle-school classroom to a bird-sanctuary newsletter), Talk, Tools, and Texts constructs a “logic-in-use” for following writers and their writing development at a variety of points in the lifespan. It also offers several strategies scholars can use in pursuit of their own research into lifespan writing.
Ryan J. Dippre is Assistant Professor of English and Director of College Composition at the University of Maine. He has published in Literacy in Composition Studies and Networks: An On-line Journal for Teacher Research as well as in edited collections. He serves as the co-chair of the Writing through the Lifespan Collaboration, a group of international scholars interested in developing a multi-site, multi-method, multi-generational study of writing through the lifespan. He lives with his wife and son in Bangor, Maine.
Publication Information:
Dippre, Ryan J. (2019). Talk, Tools, and Texts: A Logic-in-Use for Studying Lifespan Literate Action Development. The WAC Clearinghouse; University Press of Colorado. https://doi.org/10.37514/PRA-B.2019.0384
Series Editors: Nick Carbone, Carbone Research and Writing, and Mike Palmquist, Colorado State University Associate Editors: Karen-Elizabeth Moroski, Penn State University; Aimee Taylor, Clarke University; and Aleashia Walton, University of Cincinnati)
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