A rhetoric of literate action. Volume 1 : literate action / Charles Bazerman ; designer, Mike Palmquist.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bazerman, Charles, author.

Contributor:

Palmquist, Mike, book designer.

Series:

Perspectives on writing.

Perspectives on Writing

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Rhetoric.

Written communication.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (175 p.)

Place of Publication:

Fort Collins, Colorado ; Anderson, South Carolina : The WAC Clearinghouse : Parlor Press, 2013.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The first in a two-volume set, A Rhetoric of Literate Action is written for "the experienced writer with a substantial repertoire of skills, [who] now would find it useful to think in more fundamental strategic terms about what they want their texts to accomplish, what form the texts might take, how to develop specific contents, and how to arrange the work of writing." The reader is offered a framework for identifying and understanding the situations writing comes out of and is directed toward; a consideration of how a text works to transform a situation and achieve the writer's motives; and advice on how to bring the text to completion and "how to manage the work and one's own emotions and energies so as to accomplish the work most effectively."

Contents:

""Front cover""; ""Series page""; ""Title page""; ""Copyright page""; ""Contents""; ""Introduction ""; ""Chapter 1 Rhetorics of Speaking and Writing""; ""Face-to-Face Speech""; ""Codes and Contexts""; ""Communication at a Distance""; ""Rhetoric and Writing""; ""Origins of Rhetoric""; ""Chapter 2 Knowing Where You Are: Genre""; ""The Textual Marking of Situationality and Activity""; ""Conventional Forms and Inhabitations""; ""Activity Systems""; ""Texts within Activity Systems""; ""Recognizing Genres""; ""Personal and Public Histories with Genres""

""What Do We Learn from Experience with Genres? """"Genres as a Frame for Reading and Writing ""; ""Recognizable Aspects of Genre ""; ""Genres as a Potential Space of Reading and its Troubles""; ""So Where Are We? Have We Left the Material World Behind? ""; ""Displaying the Material Conditions of Texts' Creation and Use ""; ""Chapter 3 When You Are ""; ""Writing and the History of Cultural Moments""; ""Writing and Action Moments""; ""Individual and Group Perception of Moments""; ""Typical Action Sequences""; ""Influencing the Future ""; ""The Time Within the Text""

""The Temporality of Multiple Texts""""Time to Produce Texts""; ""Chapter 4 The World of Texts: Intertextuality""; ""Intertextuality Is Like and Unlike Other Spatial and Temporal Notions of Context ""; ""Extensiveness and Shape of Invoked Intertext""; ""The Intertext as a Virtual Theater of Action""; ""Chapter 5 Changing the Landscape: Kairos, Social Facts, and Speech Acts""; ""Creating and Influencing the Situation in the Here and Now""; ""Conditions Not of Our Own Making, That We Constantly Remake: Social Facts and Speech Acts.""; ""Kairos and Exigency in Embodied Face-to-Face Situations""

""Kairos and Exigency in the Intertext""""Chapter 6 Emergent Motives, Situations, Forms""; ""Typified Motives and Forms of Action""; ""Emergent Motivations in Emergent Sites of Action""; ""School Writing, School Situation, and School Motives""; ""Gradual Evolution of Situation and Our Motives Within It""; ""Chapter 7 Text Strategics ""; ""The Core of Strategic Writing""; ""The Crucial Ordinariness and Lack of Contentiousness of Most Writing""; ""The Places of Information and Reasoning""; ""Chapter 8 Emergent Form and the Processes of Forming Meaning ""

""Well-Known Genres and Sedimented Form""""The Work to Do Within Genres: Making of Meaning""; ""The Work of Academic Genres: Learning Through Problem Solving""; ""Giving Shape to Thought: The Paradoxes of Form""; ""Being Practical About Paradoxes: Bidding the Muse""; ""From the Outside In: Understanding the Meaning of Form""; ""From the Inside Out: Midwiving Emergent Meanings""; ""Back and Forth: Between External Form and Internal Impulses""; ""Drafty Drafts and Interim Texts ""; ""Chapter 9 Meanings and Representations""; ""A Place for Everything and Everything in Its Place ""

""Where and How to Get Information""

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references.

CC BY-ND

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781602354760

1602354766

9781602354753

1602354758

OCLC:

927135585