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By Howard B. Tinberg
Border Talk: Writing and Knowing in the Two-Year College offers an ethnographic account of a diverse group of community college faculty working together to revise their writer center's tutor protocols and expecations for student writing. In doing so, he takes postsecondary writing to the place he refers to as the "border"—the sometimes conflicted space occupied by the two year college, between high schools and universities, between academia and the workplace. Border Talk offers insights into theoretical questions regarding authorship and authority, language and truth, and assessment and evaluation, and presents a view of community college faculty as reflective and impassioned practitioners.
Howard B. Tinberg, Professor of English at Bristol Community College (Fall River, MA), is the author of Writing with Consequence: What Writing Does in the Disciplines (Longman, 2003), and (with JP Nadeau) Community College Writers: Exceeding Expectations (SIU Press, 2010). He is co-editor, with Patrick Sullivan,of What is College-Level Writing? (NCTE 2006) and with Patrick Sullivan and Sheridan Blau, of What is College-Level Writing? II (NCTE, 2011). He is past editor of Teaching English in the Two-Year College. He is the 2004 recipient of the Carnegie/CASE Community College Professor of the Year and served as a Carnegie Scholar in 2005-2006.
Publication Information: Tinberg, Howard B. (1997). Border Talk: Writing and Knowing in the Two-Year College. Urbana, IL: National Council of Teachers of English. Available at https://wac.colostate.edu/books/tinberg/
Publication Date: July 24, 2011
Chapter 1. How We Got Here, Where We Want to Go
Chapter 2. Are We Specialists or Generalists?
Chapter 3. Our Ways of Reading and Knowing
Chapter 5. Responding to Student Writing
Chapter 6. Is All Knowledge Provisional?
Chapter 7. Is Assessing Writing Possible?
Chapter 8. What Is Good Writing?
Chapter 9. Seeing Ourselves as Experts
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