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April 30, 2009

麻豆果冻传媒 English professor鈥檚 work proliferates in national and state journals

Several national journals have accepted the work of an assistant professor of English at the University of Louisiana at Monroe.

Claudia Grinnell, Ph.D., director of 麻豆果冻传媒鈥檚 English Writing Center, has been published in the spring issue of 鈥淧raxis: A Writing Center Journal.鈥� Her article is titled, "Wagging the Long Tail: When Push Comes to Pull In Creating the Writing Center 2.0."

鈥淧raxis,鈥� a biannual electronic publication, is a forum for writing center practitioners across the nation. Writing center consultants and administrators regularly submit features for consideration, usually related to training, consulting, labor issues, administration, or writing center news, initiatives and scholarship.

The University of Texas Undergraduate Writing Center, a component of the Division of Rhetoric and Writing at the University of Texas at Austin, sponsors the journal.

鈥淗er piece was chosen for its relevance to our current issue,鈥� said Patricia Burns, 鈥淧raxis鈥濃�� managing editor. The current issue focuses on writing across the curriculum and writing centers.

Grinnell鈥檚 article explores the 鈥渘ew鈥� world of Web 2.0 and writing center promotion, and is based on Chris Anderson's 2006 book 鈥淭he Long Tail: Why the Future of Business is Selling Less of More.鈥�

Her article takes the position that universities must embrace a new approach to learning, one characterized by a demand-pull versus the traditional supply-push mode of learning.

鈥淚n demand-side learning, universities will find gold veins of motivated students either desiring to become a member of a particular community of practice or just wanting to learn about, make or perform something,鈥� she writes.

Grinnell said that writing centers could value add to this proposition because as soon as user-centered spaces of learning are created, 鈥渋nformation flows more freely, more democratically, creating a rich intellectual commons. 鈥�

Several other of Grinnell鈥檚 articles have also been accepted for fall publications.

鈥淔rom Consumer to Prosumer to Produser: Who Keeps Shifting My Paradigm,鈥� has also been accepted for publication by the journal 鈥淧ublic Culture.鈥� In the article, Grinnell explains what a 鈥減roduser鈥� is 鈥� basically, someone who both produces something and uses it as well.

鈥淭he line between consumers and producers is being blurred in this new paradigm,鈥� she said. 鈥淚n other words, people are no longer producers or consumers, publishers or audiences, but both at the same time. They are not prosumers, but user-producers: produsers.鈥�

Also, the 鈥淟ouisiana English Journal鈥� has accepted for its fall journal Grinnell鈥檚 article, 鈥淪pectacular Domination: Supervision for Every(wo)man,鈥� while the 鈥淓nglish Journal鈥� has preliminarily accepted 鈥淲riting Round in a Flat World: The Writing Center in a Web 2.0 World.鈥�

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