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Rebecca Moore Howard
Amy Robillard
Tracy Hamler Carrick
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Rebecca Moore Howard Publishes New Book
with Former CCR Student
The Writing Program is pleased to announce that Associate Professor Writing and Rhetoric Rebecca Moore Howard and Composition and Cultural Rhetoric graduate Amy Robillard recently published Pluralizing Plagiarism: Identities, Contexts, Pedagogies.
The book, a collection of essays by disciplinary leaders, opens a productive dialogue about what is at stake in plagiarism. It argues that plagiarism is a complex, unstable issue that must be "pluralized" and considered from a variety of viewpoints and at a variety of sites. Contributors seek to help teachers approach the topic of plagiarism with students, rather than for or about students, with the goal of engaging student writers in appropriate and responsible use of source texts. More information is available on the publisher's website.
Howard, who is on leave from SU until Fall 2009, is both an editor and a contributor. Her essay, "Plagiarizing (from) Graduate Students," argues that writing from sources must be taught even on the graduate level. She also raises the issue of faculty appropriations of graduate students' intellectual work, stating that an academy that takes plagiarism seriously will respect the intellectual property of graduate student writers. Howard teaches courses in composition pedagogy,  authorship theory, writing program administration, composition history, and stylistics. She is also the author of Standing in the Shadow of Giants: Plagiarists, Authors, Collaborators.
Like Howard, Robillard is both an editor and a contributor. "Situating Plagiarism as a Form of Authorship: The Politics of Writing in a First-Year Writing Course" suggests that teachers should work with students to categorize plagiarism as a form of authorship rather than as a type of crime. Robillard is now Assistant Professor of English at Illinois State University, where she teaches courses in both the undergraduate and graduate English Studies programs. Her most recent work has appeared in College English and JAC.
Tracy Hamler Carrick, another CCR graduate and Director of Writing Walk-In Service at the John S. Knight Institute for Writing at Cornell University, is also represented in this volume. Her essay, "Where There's Smoke, Is There Fire? Understanding Coauthorship in the Writing Center" asserts the value of tutor-tutee collaborative writing.
The book was recently reviewed in the Spring 2009 issue of Composition Forum.
—story by Emily Dressing |
