UID:
almahu_9949577271002882
Format:
1 online resource (221 p.)
ISBN:
1-283-26700-4
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9786613267009
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0-87421-476-9
Content:
In a focused and compelling discussion, Anis Bawarshi looks to genre theory for what it can contribute to a refined understanding of invention. In describing what he calls ""the genre function,"" he explores what is at stake for the study and teaching of writing to imagine invention as a way that writers locate themselves, via genres, within various positions and activities. He argues, in fact, that invention is a process in which writers are acted upon by genres as much as they act themselves. Such an approach naturally requires the composition scholar to re-place invention from the writ
Note:
Description based upon print version of record.
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CONTENTS; PREFACE; 1 INTRODUCTION A Meditation on Beginnings; 2 THE GENRE FUNCTION; 3 INVENTING THE WRITER IN COMPOSITION STUDIES; 4 CONSTRUCTING DESIRE Genre and the Invention of Writing Subjects; 5 SITES OF INVENTION Genre and the Enactment of First-Year Writing; 6 RE-PLACING INVENTION IN COMPOSITION Reflections and Implications; NOTES; REFERENCES; INDEX; ABOUT THE AUTHOR
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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-87421-554-4
Language:
English
