Grounded Literacies in a Transnational WAC/WID Ecology

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International Exchanges on the Study of Writing Series
Copublished with the WAC Clearinghouse

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"This book will continue to invite diverse audiences who work in a similar context to generate discursive practices about teaching and researching writing, planning and administration of writing intensive (WI) courses and programs, as well as ongoing faculty training, mentoring, and exchange in cross-border educational sites."
—Composition Studies


In this book, Jay Jordan draws from WAC/WID, second language writing, rhetoric and composition, and scholarship on English teaching and learning in South Korea to describe the ways writing as a privileged literate activity shapes and is shaped by the development of one university’s transnational campuses. Through grounded analysis of three years of student and faculty surveys and interviews, writing samples, observations, and through personal narrative about the author’s experience at both campuses, Grounded Literacies in a Transnational WAC/WID Ecology closely describes and theorizes the intellectual, social, and material complexities of cross-border educational efforts. Despite the smoothly marketable promise of many U.S.-based international educational experiments, the mutual embeddedness of campus, university, host city, student and faculty experiences, differing expectations, national aspirations, and individual and collective goals and anxieties richly nuances the argument that literacies can never be reduced to classroom or curricular plans.

This book is also available as an open access ebook through the WAC Clearinghouse.