Abstract
This article explores the emotional outcomes related to language commodification within an organizational context: the first-year writing program at Binghamton University, which is a public research university in upstate New York. In this setting, the meanings of effective writing instruction are discursively constructed in terms of a multi-faceted commitment to ‘the process.’ This entails an ideological commitment to both recursive process writing and the process of collaboratively evaluating the product that derives from it. I first offer an overview of the Binghamton context, including the details of collaborative portfolio assessment. I then analyze a specific sociolinguistic strategy: pep talking. I argue that pep talking is integral to cultivating localized technologies of the self through simultaneously bolstering the ideology of commitment and effacing instructors’ emotional outcomes.
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Seeley, Sarah V.
(2020)
"“So, that’s sort of wonderful”: The Ideology of Commitment and the Labor of Contingency,"
The Journal of the Assembly for Expanded Perspectives on Learning: Vol. 25
, Article 11.
https://doi.org/10.7290/jaepl25aqs4
Available at:
https://trace.tennessee.edu/jaepl/vol25/iss1/11
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