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education making writing matter composition in the engaged university making writing matter composition in the engaged university ann m feldman challenging more limited approaches to service learning this book examines writing instruction in the context of universities fully engaged in community partnerships higher education and international student mobility in the global knowledge economy higher education and international student mobility in the global knowledge economy kemal gÜrÜz demonstrates how the international mobility of students scholars programs and institutions of higher education evolved over time and the ways in which it is occurring in today s global knowledge economy ann m feldman kemal gürüz n making writing matter ann m feldman explores how changing scholarship at engaged metropolitan universities offers an opportunity to redesign first-year writing classes in ways that make students better writers an engaged university commits to a relationship with its surrounding metropolitan area with faculty members undertaking collaborative research with community partners the more vibrant participatory role of an engaged university allows students to link their academic studies to important public issues and gain real-world writing experience writing press releases and letters to organizations this newly focused and contextualized research and scholarship at engaged universities shows students how discourse and writing matter in new ways ann feldman s work is always original and contributory in this case she is on the cutting edge with the new engaged university and the writing instruction that it warrants susan miller author of trust in texts a different history of rhetoric feldman does a wonderful job of complicating matters so that composition is tied to community and becomes not just ordinary writing but writing with real social purpose victor villanueva editor of cross-talk in comp theory a reader second edition ann m feldman is associate professor of english at the university of illinois at chicago she is the author of writing and learning in the disciplines and the coauthor with ellen mcmanus and nancy downs of in context reading and writing in cultural conversations second edition march · 272 pp 5 tables 26 figures $85.00 hc 978-0-7914-7381-8 i tudents and scholars leaving their homes in search of education and knowledge is not a new phenomenon kemal gürüz discusses how the international mobility of students scholars programs and institutions of higher education has evolved over time he explores the contributions it has made to civilization scientific and technological progress and the ways in which it is occurring in today s global knowledge economy gürüz does a nice job of relating the theme of mobility to the historical development of higher education and other trends over time he brings an important cross-cultural perspective to the topic philip g altbach coeditor of the racial crisis in american higher education continuing challenges for the twenty-first century revised edition the book is a grand sweep of the history of higher education from an international comparative perspective with country-bycountry descriptions of institutional patterns enrollments governance recent trends in relationships to the state the emergence and growth of private institutions the diversification of revenues and the increasing internationalization of knowledge students scholars and institutional providers d bruce johnstone coeditor of cost-sharing and accessibility in higher education a fairer deal kemal gÜrÜz is former president of the council of higher education of the republic of turkey and retired professor of chemical engineering at the middle east technical university in 2005 he was the first recipient of the chancellor john w ryan fellowship in international education at the state university of new york april · 300 pp 16 tables 61 figures $75.00 jacketed hc 978-0-7914-7413-6 s 60 1-800-666-2211

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