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[A] timely book that offers a more sophisticated, thorough, and useful exploration of debates surrounding whether or not Writing Studies is (and should be) a discipline. . . . [A] major strength of the book is the care it takes in defining what a discipline is, and doing so through multiple frameworks in multiple chapters. --Dan Melzer, California State University, Sacramento [A] strong, well-conceived collection. . . . I learned much from it. --Tony Scott, Syracuse University

[A] timely book that offers a more sophisticated, thorough, and useful exploration of debates surrounding whether or not Writing Studies is (and should be) a discipline. . . . [A] major strength of the book is the care it takes in defining what a discipline is, and doing so through multiple frameworks in multiple chapters. --Dan Melzer, California State University, Sacramento [A] strong, well-conceived collection. . . . I learned much from it. --Tony Scott, Syracuse University

[A] timely book that offers a more sophisticated, thorough, and useful exploration of debates surrounding whether or not Writing Studies is (and should be) a discipline. . . . [A] major strength of the book is the care it takes in defining what a discipline is, and doing so through multiple frameworks in multiple chapters. --Dan Melzer, California State University, Sacramento [A] strong, well-conceived collection. . . . I learned much from it. --Tony Scott, Syracuse University

All the essays in this wide-ranging book are worthwhile, but the concluding essay by all four editors is especially powerful. . . . Summing Up: Essential --CHOICE Seldom does scholarship feel so hopeful. --Composition Studies [A] timely book that offers a more sophisticated, thorough, and useful exploration of debates surrounding whether or not Writing Studies is (and should be) a discipline. . . . [A] major strength of the book is the care it takes in defining what a discipline is, and doing so through multiple frameworks in multiple chapters. --Dan Melzer, California State University, Sacramento [A] strong, well-conceived collection. . . . I learned much from it. --Tony Scott, Syracuse University

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Rita Malenczyk is professor of English and director of the Writing Program and Writing Center at Eastern Connecticut State University. She is the editor of A Rhetoric for Writing Program Administrators, now in its second edition, and a past president of the Council of Writing Program Administrators. Susan Miller-Cochran is professor of English and director of the Writing Program at the University of Arizona. She has served as a faculty member at Mesa Community College, director of First-Year Writing at North Carolina State University, and president of the Council of Writing Program Administrators. Elizabeth Wardle is director of the Roger & Joyce Howe Center for Writing Excellence at Miami University and previously directed writing programs at the University of Dayton and the University of Central Florida. She coedited Naming What We Know and Writing about Writing, now in its third edition. Kathleen Blake Yancey is Kellogg W. Hunt Professor of English and Distinguished Research Professor at Florida State University and past president/chair of NCTE, CCCC, and CWPA. The recipient of several awards, she has authored/edited many articles/book chapters and books, most recently A Rhetoric of Reflection and Assembling Composition.

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