Title: Teaching multiwriting : researching and composing with multiple genres, media, disciplines, and cultures /
Authors: Davis, Robert L., 1965-; Shadle, Mark F., 1949-
Publisher: Southern Illinois University Press,
Year: 2007
Subjects: English language Rhetoric Study and teaching; Interdisciplinary approach in education.; Creative writing (Higher education)
Abstract: 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to open the minds of both writers and readers to new understandings, the authors argue for the supplanting of the outdated research paper assignment with research projects that use multiple forms to explore questions that cannot be fully answered.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 -- A crossroads in space and time -- Research writing as a key to the highway -- The loose talk of persuasion -- The essay as cabinet of wonder -- Multiwriting blues.