Situating Writing Processes: Physicality, Improvisation, and the Teaching of Writing (Paperback or Softback)

Rule, Hannah

ISBN 10: 1607329239 / ISBN 13: 9781607329237

Editore: CSU Open Press 3/15/2020, 2020

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• Titolo: Situating Writing Processes: Physicality, Improvisation, and the Teaching of Writing (Paperback or Softback)
• Editore: CSU Open Press 3/15/2020
• Data di pubblicazione: 2020
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 1607329239
• ISBN 13: 9781607329237
• Rilegatura: Paperback or Softback
• Condizione: New
• Tipo di libro: Book

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What should it mean today to "teach writing as a process"? In Situating Writing Processes, Hannah J. Rule takes stock of this familiar commonplace in composition studies, arguing for a renewed understanding of process that emphasizes situatedness. To situate processes is to physically locate them: to observe the infinite ways they are shaped by particular bodies and affects, environments and spaces, others near and distant, and various tools or objects. When we call attention to the physical, material, and located dimensions of processes, we foreground the differences, contingencies, and lived experiences of composing. Doing so is critical, Rule argues, to finally letting go of discrete skills and instead teaching writing as experience in seeing and responding to ranging constraints immediate and distant, material and social. Situating processes ultimately emphasizes vulnerability: how all writing involves risk, uncertainty, and the possibility of failure, as processes are susceptible to the participation and control of forces on ranging scales and always in excess of the writer alone. Accounting for context, difference, and improvisation, Situating Writing Processes helps writing teachers and scholars freshly reimagine the histories and potential of an enduring concept.

Informazioni sull?autore

Hannah J. Rule is assistant professor of English in Composition and Rhetoric at the University of South Carolina. In both her research and teaching, Rule asks questions related to writing pedagogies, writing process histories and theories, and the embodied and material dimensions of composing. Her scholarship appears in a range of venues including College Composition and Communication, Composition Studies, and Composition Forum.