Teaching Multiwriting
Subtitle: Researching and Composing with Multiple Genres, Media, Disciplines, and Cultures
Edition: 1st Edition edition
Publisher: Southern Illinois University Press
Published: March 19, 2007
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 256
ISBN-13: 9780809327546
Subjects: Creative writing guides; Higher & further education; Teaching of a specific subject; Writing skills; Language Arts & Disciplines; Education / Teaching; Language; Higher; Teaching Methods & Materials - Language Arts; Language Arts & Disciplines / Study & Teaching; Rhetoric; Study & Teaching; Creative writing (Higher education); English language; Interdisciplinary approach in education; Study and teaching; Language Arts / Linguistics / Literacy
Description: 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to open the minds of both writers and readers to new understandings, the authors argue for the supplanting of the outdated research paper assignment with research projects that use multiple forms to explore questions that cannot be fully answered.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.