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Professionalizing Second Language Writing is an edited collection that bring together perspectives of second language writing specialists who shed light on second language writing as a profession. Some of the chapters illuminate the nature of second language writing not only as a field but as a profession. Other chapters provide an in-depth look at the issues second language writing specialists face as they go through various stages of professional development in their institutional contexts. Together, these chapters provide insights that can help graduate students and early career professionals as they envision their future and cope with new issues and challenges in their own processes of professionalization. Contributors include Dwight Atkinson, Pisarn Bee Chamcharatsri, Deborah Crusan, Atsushi Iida, Soo Hyon Kim, Todd Ruecker, Tanita Saenkhum, and Christine M. Tardy.

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Publié par	Parlor Press, LLC
Date de parution	21 septembre 2017
Nombre de lectures	0
EAN13	9781602359703
Langue	English

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Second Language Writing
Series Editor: Paul Kei Matsuda
Second language writing emerged in the late twentieth century as an interdisciplinary field of inquiry, and an increasing number of researchers from various related fields—including applied linguistics, communication, composition studies, and education—have come to identify themselves as second language writing specialists. The Second Language Writing series aims to facilitate the advancement of knowledge in the field of second language writing by publishing scholarly and research-based monographs and edited collections that provide significant new insights into central topics and issues in the field.
Books in the Series
The Politics of Second Language Writing: In Search of the Promised Land , edited by Paul Kei Matsuda, Christina Ortmeier-Hooper, and Xiaoye You (2006)
Building Genre Knowledge by Christine M. Tardy (2009)
Practicing Theory in Second Language Writing , edited by Tony Silva and Paul Kei Matsuda (2010)
Foreign Language Writing Instruction: Principles and Practices , edited by Tony Cimasko and Melinda Reichelt (2011)
Scientific Writing in a Second Language by David Ian Hanauer and Karen Englander (2013)
Graduate Studies in Second Language Writing, edited by Kyle McIntosh, Carolina Pelaez-Morales, and Tony Silva (2015)
Professionalizing Second Language Writing , edited by Paul Kei Matsuda, Sarah Elizabeth Snyder, and Katherine Daily O’Meara (2017)

Professionalizing Second Language Writing
Edited by
Paul Kei Matsuda, Sarah Elizabeth Snyder,
and Katherine Daily O’Meara
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Second Language Writing
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Contents
Preface
1 Representations of Professionalization in Second Language Writing: A View from the Flagship Journal
Christine M. Tardy
2 Where It All Begins: Doctoral Studies as Professional Development in Second Language Writing
Dwight Atkinson
3 Negotiating an Academic Position as an L2 Writing Specialist: The Case of a Second Language (L2) Writing Specialist in a Joint Appointment
Pisarn Bee Chamcharatsri
4 An Early-Career Second Language Writing Scholar’s Professional Development in Japan: Challenges and Issues
Atsushi Iida
5 Emergent Professional Identities of an Early Career L2 Writing Scholar
Soo Hyon Kim
6 Publishing as an Early Second Language Writing Scholar: Developing an Academic Voice and Navigating Disciplinary Expectations
Todd Ruecker
7 Working Toward Being a Tenured Writing Program Administrator
Tanita Saenkhum
8 Fake It ’Til You Make It: The Imposter Phenomenon in Gendered Academia
Deborah Crusan
Contributors
Index to the Print Edition
About the Editors

Preface
T he field of second language writing has grown tremendously over the last two decades, and many teachers, scholars and administrators from various disciplinary perspectives and institutional contexts have come to identify themselves as second language writing specialists. While the disciplinary infrastructure has grown and opportunities for graduate education have expanded, and while there is a small but growing number of resources for graduate students (e.g., Casanave & Vandrick, 2003; McIntosh, Pelaez-Morales, & Silva, 2016), there is a dearth of resources for the professional development of L2 writing specialists who are transitioning from being a graduate student to becoming an early-career professional in various institutional contexts.
The goal of this volume is to bring together active second language writing specialists at various stages of professional development to discuss the nature of professionalization in the field and to share stories of their entry into the profession and various issues and challenges they faced in the process. In Chapter 1, Christine Tardy, one of the co-editors of the Journal of Second Language Writing and an accomplished researcher, discusses the professionalization of the field by examining the flagship journal for generational shifts in the development of the field. In Chapter 2, Dwight Atkinson, another eminent scholar in the field, discusses the professionalization process that takes place in the doctoral program, offering a perspective on the amount and intensity of effort required for successful professionalization.
The next six chapters provide insights into various issues, challenges, and learning experiences that early-career L2 writing professionals face. In Chapter 3, Pisarn Bee Chamcharatsri addresses the issues that translingual scholars sometimes face as they accept dual-appointment tenure-track positions. In Chapter 4, Atsushi Iida discusses the challenges of establishing himself as a productive member of the field while meeting the demands of teaching and service as a non-tenure-track faculty member. In Chapter 5, Soo Hyon Kim explores how the transdisciplinary nature of the field affects the experience of an early-career L2 writing specialist as she engaged in teaching, research and service activities. In Chapter 6, Todd Ruecker shares his experience of learning to write for publication in an interdisciplinary terrain, where different disciplinary expectations and practices intersect. Chapter 7 by Tanita Saenkhum describes the dilemma of an untenured faculty member specializing in L2 writing program administration, and how she negotiates the balance between establishing her professional career and her administrative role.
The volume concludes with an inspiring exploration of the Imposter Phenomenon that affects not only early-career professionals but also many senior members of the field. In Chapter 8, Deborah Crusan documents the extent to which the Imposter Phenomenon affects professionals, how it is also a gendered issue, and how she struggled through it.
Together these chapters provide insights that can help graduate students and early career professionals as they envision their future and cope with new issues and challenges in their own processes of professionalization.

1 Representations of Professionalization in Second Language Writing: A View from the Flagship Journal
Christine M. Tardy
A dmittedly, when I was first invited to contribute to a scholarly discussion of professionalization in second language writing, I panicked a bit, imagining what I could possibly offer to the conversation. I knew that those who had been in the field longer than I could offer first-hand reflections on the field’s development, those with more experience working with doctoral students could provide insights into graduate students’ professional paths, and those who were versed in historical research methodologies could provide richer and more systematic analyses of the field’s trajectories than I. Simply put, I wasn’t sure what perspective I might bring to the issue that might be of interest. After some thought, though, I realized that much of how I currently think about the field of second language writing (and I will use the term “field” here, in part to bypass discussions of our disciplinary status 1 ) is bound to my very fortunate current positioning as a co-editor of the Journal of Second Language Writing, arguably our flagship journal. In occupying this vantage point since 2011, I have found myself increasingly aware of the role that the journal plays in defining and influencing conceptions of second language writing and also in the field’s professionalization.
Obviously the JSLW is only one site from which to view professionalization, but it offers a rich perspective. We find constructions of “the field” through the JSLW’s mission and scope, manuscript submissions and published papers, peer reviews, editorial decisions, special issue topics, annotated bibliographies, the disciplinary dialogues sections, the editorial board members, the editors, and even the publisher—a global company that owns over 2,000 journals, mostly in scientific fields. Thanks in large part to the founding editors, Ilona Leki and Tony Silva, the journal has provided an important venue for a growing sense of a community with specialized knowledge and a professional identity. In this chapter, then, I share a perspective on professionalization that is situated in various components of the JSLW. I begin, though, by building a framework for my discussion that attempts to understand the term professionalization as it relates to the development of a field and the related process of disciplinarity.
Professionalization and Disciplinary Development
I don’t want to conflate the processes of professionalization and disciplinarity entirely,