Approaches to Lifespan Writing Research: Generating an Actionable Coherence
Edited by Ryan J. Dippre and Talinn Phillips
Copy edited by Don Donahue. Designed by Mike Palmquist.
This edited collection builds on the three themes that emerged from the 2018 inaugural lifespan writing conference—identity, society, and theory—to further the study of writing through the lifespan. The contributors to this collection provide a framework within which the reader can develop a dynamic, interdisciplinary, multifaceted understanding of the limits and possibilities of studying lifespan writing. Recognizing that such research requires methodological rigor and flexibility as well as theoretical precision and adaptability, Approaches to Lifespan Writing Research draws on a range of methodological and theoretical approaches, from autoethnography to longitudinal structural equation modeling. This methodological and theoretical flexibility reflects the challenges inherent in studying lifespan writing—in particular, the need to develop an integrated framework that enables the “translation” of research findings for use by other lifespan writing researchers. Approaches to Lifespan Writing Research begins that process.
Ryan J. Dippre is Assistant Professor of English and the Director of College Composition at the University of Maine. He earned his Ph.D. from University of California, Santa Barbara in 2015. He has published in Literacy in Composition Studies and English Journal, among other places. His book, Talk, Tools, and Texts: A Logic-in-Use for Studying Lifespan Literate Action Development, is available at the WAC Clearinghouse / University Press of Colorado. 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. His research interests include lifespan writing research and writing program administration.
Talinn Phillips is Associate Professor of English at Ohio University where she also directs the Graduate Writing and Research Center. In addition to the lifespan, her research has investigated international graduate student writing development, liminal writing program administrators, and various intersections of graduate students and writing center support. She is co-editor of Supporting Graduate Student Writers: Research, Curriculum, and Program Design (University of Michigan Press, 2016), co-author of Teaching with a Global Perspective: Practical Strategies from Course Design to Assessment (Routledge, 2018), and co-creator of the tutor training film, Becoming an Ally: Tutoring Multilingual Writers (2017). She is a co-founder of the Writing Through the Lifespan Collaboration.
Publication Information:
Dippre, Ryan J., & Talinn Phillips (Eds.). (2020). Approaches to Lifespan Writing Research: Generating an Actionable Coherence. The WAC Clearinghouse; University Press of Colorado. https://doi.org/10.37514/PER-B.2020.1053
Series Editors: Rich Rice, Texas Tech University; Heather MacNeill Falconer, Curry College; and J. Michael Rifenburg, University of North Georgia
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