摘要：WRITING IN KNOWLEDGE SOCIETIES is one of the current offerings in the Perspectives on Writing series, published by Parlor Press and WAC Clearinghouse and edited by Susan McLeod. Books in the Perspectives on Writing series are available digitally at no cost or in print, which makes them a wonderful resource for writing scholars globally. Like some other books in the series, Writing in Knowledge Societies is a collection of articles drawn from conference presentations, in this case, two conferences from the Canadian Association for the Study of Discourse and Writing (CASDW). As a fan of earlier collections of conference papers from Canadian genre scholars, including Aviva Freedman and Peter Medway’s Genre and the New Rhetoric (1994) and Richard Coe, Lorelei Lingard, and Tatiana Teslenko’s The Rhetoric and Ideology of Genre (2001), I was keenly interested in reading current research by many of the same scholars who contributed to those genre collections. Of course, Canadian writing scholars do much more than genre research as shown in this collection of “rich accounts of the diversity of knowledge-making practices and the roles rhetoric and writing play in organizing and (re)producing them” (5).
