Murray Resources

Newkirk talks about Murray in Nuts and Bolts, (3-10).

In a more recent article ("Review: Radical to Many in the Educational Establishment: The Writing Process Movement after the Hurricanes." College English 68 (2006): 531-44) , reviewing a recent reissue of Murray's A Writer Teaches Writing as well as seminal work by Peter Elbow and Paulo Freire, Robert P. Yagelski also questions the dismissal of Murray's brand of expressivism.

As Wendy Bishop puts it in her 1999 CCC article "Places to Stand: The Reflective Writer-Teacher-Writer in Composition",

Elbow and Murray were made safe by transformation into figures, by relegation to expressivist categories. Then, as the field professionalized, there followed a progression of diminishment and tuckings-away, a little like the nouveau riche habit of sticking the money-earning but foolishly-dressed grandfather in the back study, not introducing him to high society company where he might embarrass. (24)

I got these from a blog entry on Murray on a blog called Re: Thinking, Teaching, Writing.