What are your thoughts about who should be writing abstracts for the book?

Kim,

Do you want to write some of the entries for this book? I do.
I just realized that if we write the annotated entries, we will get credit for "writing" as well as "editing," and since I plan to go up for promotion, I want this credit.
I propose that we both write a certain proportion of the entries. A rationale for doing that is that we can keep the abstracts more uniform.

I also propose that we invite certain individuals to write entries:
Michele Navarre, Linda Brender, Sandy Valensky, Sonia Feder-Lewis, and Karen Uehling. And anyone else you want to add. I want to name them in the proposal. If each one write 5 to 8 entries, that's a more substantial "writing" credit for a resume.

Number of entries in the book?
If there are 10 entries per section and five sections, that's 50. If there are 20 entries per section and 5 sections, that's 100. I am trying to imagine the number of entries in the book for the proposal. Just a ballpark figure. An estimate. What do you imagine?

We should choose the writers and the list should be short:
What do you think about this? I want to keep tight control over who writes the entries. I do not want to have to work with individuals I do not know on this. That means I would not want to put out an open invitaiton on the listserv

This is not something we talked about before. I'll post this comment on our ning to keep a record of it. Please let me know what you think. I'm open to your ideas, of course!
Barbara

Proposal draft 4/5/09

A proposal for an annotated bibliography on adult writers in undergraduate institutions
Barbara Gleason, PhD, City College New York; Kimme Nuckles, PhD, Baker College

Introduction: history of adult learning and adult education; little communication between adult learning and the world of composition; encouraging future research of adult writers and become aware of scholarship that has been done (written by the co-editors)

Annotated bibliography of books and journal articles, as well as a review of online resources, on adult writers in undergraduate institutions; blend these for both the college composition instructor and the adult education instructor so it appeals to a wider audience (written by selected college instructors –chosen by the co-editors)

Profiles of adult writers in college (Uehling, etc.)
Curriculum for adult writers (including online and traditional learning, PLA)
Instruction of adult writers (Teaching Adults to Write, Gleason)
Learning theory of adult learners/experiential learning/PLA)
Settings for adult learners (online, undergraduate institutions, adult learning institutions)

Proposal

I just got your phone message from earlier today. I didn't hear the phone. We had the kids and grandkids here for the MSU Final Four game. Sorry. Call me tomorrow late afternoon if you want. If I don't hear from you, I'll try calling your phone.

I think we have a good start on the type of proposal Carrie is requesting. We can take what we have here and refine it.