Authoring A Discipline by Goggin Maureen Daly;

Author:Goggin, Maureen Daly;
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Humanities
Publisher: Taylor and Francis
Published: 2000-04-30T16:00:00+00:00

The process movement was nevertheless an important catalyst for creating research and scholarship in the field, and for, in some cases quite literally, launching disciplinary careers in rhetoric and composition. Interest in research on writing was so strong that in 1983 the American Educational Research Association began a Special Interest Group in writing research. Two years later, in 1985, the National Institution of Education established a Center for the Study of Writing.

Throughout the 1980s and early 1990s additional cognitive and social strands were spun that strengthened and tightened the disciplinary fabric of rhetoric and composition. Substantive changes in reasons for founding new journals; in editorial practices, policies, and submission guidelines; and in published articles and their contributors, provide evidence of the more tightly woven disciplinary fabric. By the 1980s, detailed lists of suggested topics and methods, accompanied by specific recommendations for the rhetorical forms of manuscripts, appeared as editors of both new journals and established ones responded to disciplinary practices well underway. Rigorous peer review systems for manuscripts were also in place in virtually every journal by the end of the 1980s, as authorities available to judge work grew and as journals in rhetoric and composition began to play a more important role in tenure and promotion cases. Finally, the reasons journals were founded during this period changed radically; they emerged less to encourage and prompt particular lines of inquiry than to provide space for work that was already being done.

The strengthening of the discipline and the centrifugal pull of defining itself as a Wissenschaft (both naturwissenschaft and geisteswissenschaft), was apparent in the founding of four journals—Journal of Advanced Composition (JAC), Pre/Text, Rhetoric Review, and Written Communication—as well as in changes in the policies and practices of older journals during the 1980s and early 1990s.

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