Scholars of English literature and language present a range of situations that demonstrate how American expertise in writing studies does not always translate smoothly in local institutions and community cultures of writing in the Middle East and North Africa, and demonstrate as well the need for research into post-secondary writing practices and pedagogy in the region. They cover complicating prevalent assumptions, considering the importance of Western models, striving for balance across borders, and creating student space. Among the topics are the global spread of English in academia and its effect on writing instruction in Turkish universities, rewriting resistance: negotiating pedagogical and curricular changes in a US/Kurdish transnational partnership, and literacy narratives across borders: Beirut and Dearborn as 21st-century transnational spaces. Annotation ©2018 Ringgold, Inc., Portland, OR (protoview.com)
While events in the Middle East-North Africa region dominate world news, it is an area little understood by the rest of the world—not only historically, politically, and culturally but also within the discipline of Rhetoric and Composition and Second Language Writing. The editors and contributors to this collection share scholarship that addresses how writing programs and writing-across-the-curriculum initiatives—in the region and outside of it—are responding to the increasing globalization of higher education and contributing to international discussions about World Englishes and other language varieties as well as translingual approaches to writing and writing pedagogy.
Contributors: Samer Annous, James P. Austin, William DeGenaro, Rula Diab, Michele Eodice, Juheina Fakhreddine, Aneta Hayes, Tom Highley, Amy Hodges, Rima Iskandarani, Najla Jarkas, Holly Johnson, Brenda Kent, Malakeh Raif Khoury-Khayat, Nasser Mansour, Ryan T. Miller, Maureen O’Day Nicolas, Saman Hussein Omar, Silvia Pessoa, Mysti Rudd, Zane Siraj Sinno, Michael Telafici, Connie Kendall Theado, Martha Townsend, Hacer Hande Uysal, Margaret Willard-Traub
The editors and contributors to this collection share scholarship that addresses how writing programs and writing-across-the-curriculum initiatives—in the region and outside of it—are responding to the increasing globalization of higher education and contributing to international discussions about World Englishes and other language varieties as well as translingual approaches to writing and writing pedagogy.
