Rhetorical strategies and genre conventions in literary studies : teaching and writing in the disciplines / Laura Wilder.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Wilder, Laura, 1971-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English language--Rhetoric--Study and teaching.

English language.

Interdisciplinary approach in education.

Physical Description:

viii, 238 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Carbondale : Southern Illinois University Press, [2012]

Summary:

Laura Wilder fills a gap in the scholarship on writing in the disciplines and writing across the curriculum with this thorough study of the intersection of scholarly literary criticism and undergraduate writing in introductory literature courses. Using rhetorical analysis, ethnographic observation, and individual interviews, Wilder demonstrates how rhetorical conventions play a central role in the teaching of literature and the evaluation of student writing. As Wilder follows a group of literature majors and details their experiences, she argues that explicit instruction in disciplinary conventions has the potential to help underprepared students. Wilder explores how this kind of instruction may be incorporated into literature courses without being overly reductive. Taking into consideration student perspectives, Wilder makes a bold case for expanding the focus of research in writing in the disciplines and writing across the curriculum in order to grasp the full complexity of disciplinary discourse. Book jacket.

Contents:

1 "The Rhetoric of Literary Criticism" Revisited: Mistaken Critics, Complex Contexts, and Social Justice 27

2 "You Wouldn't Want to Introduce That to Undergraduate Students": Literature Professors' Views of Disciplinarity and Student Discourse 55

3 "This Is How We Do Things": Professors' Expectations for Student Writing 78

4 "Some Tools to Take With Them": Making Disciplinary Conventions Explicit 108

5 "Other Professors, They Assume You Already Know This Stuff": Student Views of Disciplinary Enculturation and Explicating Conventions 134

6 "There Were Negative Results for Me": Faculty Resistance to Explicit Instruction in Disciplinary Rhetoric 174.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780809330935

0809330938

9780809330942

0809330946

OCLC:

738349215