Teaching multiwriting : researching and composing with multiple genres, media, disciplines, and cultures / Robert L. Davis and Mark F. Shadle.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Davis, Robert L., 1965-

Contributor:

Shadle, Mark F., 1949-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English language--Rhetoric--Study and teaching.

English language.

Interdisciplinary approach in education.

Creative writing (Higher education).

Physical Description:

xii, 226 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Carbondale : Southern Illinois University Press, [2007]

Summary:

Formulaic ways to train students in composition and rhetoric are no longer effective, say authors Robert L. Davis and Mark F. Shadle. Scholar-teachers must instead reinvent the field from the inside. Teaching Multiwriting: Researching and Composing with Multiple Genres, Media, Disciplines, and Cultures presents just such a reinvention with multiwriting, an alternative, open approach to composition. Seeking to open the minds of both writers and readers to new understandings, the authors argue for the supplanting of the outdated research paper assignment with research projects that use multiple forms to explore questions that cannot be fully answered. This innovative volume, geared to composition teachers at all levels, includes sixteen helpful illustrations and provides classroom exercises and projects for each chapter.

Contents:

Introduction: Expanding the Sound 1

1 A Crossroads in Space and Time 21

2 Research Writing as a Key to the Highway 54

3 The Loose Talk of Persuasion 95

4 The Essay as Cabinet of Wonder 132

5 Multiwriting Blues 162.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 203-220) and index.

ISBN:

9780809327546

0809327546

OCLC:

70866978

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