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Selected Works of Peter Elbow
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Coming to See Myself as a Vernacular Intellectual
College Composition and Communication (2008)
  • Peter Elbow, University of Massachusetts - Amherst
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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).

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Publication Date
February, 2008
Citation Information
Peter Elbow. "Coming to See Myself as a Vernacular Intellectual" College Composition and Communication Vol. 59 Iss. 3 (2008)
Available at: http://works.bepress.com/peter_elbow/22/