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Coming to See Myself as a Vernacular Intellectual

Peter Elbow, University of Massachusetts - Amherst

Abstract

A short essay taken from remarks at the annual 2007 convention on getting the Exemplar Award. I look back over my career as an ongoing attempt to democratize writing--operating from the stance of a "vernacular intellectual" (a concept coined by Grant Farret).

Suggested Citation

Peter Elbow. "Coming to See Myself as a Vernacular Intellectual" College Composition and Communication 59.3 (2008): 519-524.
Available at: http://works.bepress.com/peter_elbow/22