UID:
almahu_9949383879902882
Format:
1 online resource
ISBN:
9781351027649
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1351027646
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9781351027656
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1351027654
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9781351027632
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1351027638
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9781351027663
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1351027662
Content:
Prolific Moment: Theory and Practice of Mindfulness for Writing foregrounds the present in all activities of composing, offering a new perspective on the rhetorical situation and the writing process. A focus on the present casts light on standard writing components--audience, invention, and revision--while bringing forth often overlooked nuances of the writing experience--intrapersonal rhetoric, the preverbal, and preconception. This pedagogy of mindful writing can alleviate the suffering of writing blocks that comes from mindless, future-oriented rhetorics. Much is lost with a misplaced present moment because students forfeit rewarding writing experiences for stress, frustration, boredom, fear, and shortchanged invention. Writing becomes a very different experience if students think of it more consistently as part of a discrete now. Peary examines mindfulness as a metacognitive practice and turns to foundational Buddhist concepts of no-self, emptiness, impermanence, and detachment for methods for observing the moment in the writing classroom.
Note:
Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Table of contents; Acknowledgments; Preface; Introduction; Mindfulness in Higher Education; Mindlessness in Writing Instruction; A Mindfulness Practice of Composition; What, Then, Is the Nature of This Composing Present?; The Approach of This Book; 1 Present Moment, Writing Moment; The Sutra of Sutra: An Early Praxis of Metacognition; Two Vehicles for Mindlessness in Composition Pedagogy; Present Temporality, Process, and Situation; Intrapersonal Rhetoric and Materiality; Interchapter 1; It's the First Day of the Semester
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2 The Monkey Mind of Intrapersonal RhetoricCharacteristics of Intrapersonal Rhetoric; Intrapersonal as Illusion Maker; Māra in the Audience; The No-Self of Intrapersonal Rhetoric; Interchapter 2; The Final Tally Was 1,390 to 744; 3 The Verbal Emptiness of Mindful Invention; The Heart Sutra; Emptiness and Mindful Invention; Prewriting and Emptiness; No-Writing, Not Writing, and the Nonverbal; Emptiness of Writing Self; Interchapter 3; Write Your Own Sand Mandala; 4 Mind Waves, Mind Weeds, Preconceptions; Emotional Mindlessness in Composition Theories
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The Buddhist Mindfulness Approach to EmotionsMind Waves and Mind Weeds in Students' Experiences of Writing; Establishing a Calm Outlook for Writing; Preconceptions about Writing Task and Ability; Interchapter 4; Detachment, Neutrality, Ambivalence; 5 Their Ability to Write Is Always Present: A Disciplinary Context for Mindfulness; Overlooking Present Temporality; The Wrong No-Self Policy; Valuing Formlessness; Alleviating the Suffering of Writers; Brief Glossary; Bibliography; Index
Additional Edition:
Print version: Peary, Alexandria, 1970- Prolific moment. ISBN 9781138493575
Language:
English
Keywords:
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DOI:
10.4324/9781351027663
URL:
https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/9781351027663
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