Description
Drawing on historical studies as well as on current innovations of composing, Assembling Composition provides a new framework for understanding composing.
As Kathleen Blake Yancey, Stephen J. McElroy, and their contributors detail, assemblage theory explains disparate composing practices--from postcard production in the early twentieth century to database-informed composing in the twenty-first, from museum-inspired collecting to creative repetitions of authentic Native American practices. And as a key concept, assemblage has been field tested in several settings, including first-year composition, upper-level writing courses, and graduate courses. Assembling Composition speaks particularly to four dimensions of assemblage:
- Ways that assemblage helps us theorize current digital and material composing practices
- Ways that employing assemblage as a key term and practice in the teaching of writing can assist both teachers and students
- Ways that assemblage has historically contributed to everyday composing
- And ways that we can interrogate assemblage as an ethical practice
Author: Kathleen Blake Yancey
Publisher: National Council of Teachers of English (Ncte
Published: 03/16/2017
Pages: 246
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.75lbs
Size: 5.50h x 8.40w x 0.60d
ISBN13: 9780814101988
ISBN10: 0814101984
BISAC Categories:
- Language Arts & Disciplines | Rhetoric
- Education | Teaching | Subjects | Language Arts
- Language Arts & Disciplines | Writing | Composition