Counter-History of Composition, A: Toward Methodologies of Complexity: 163 (Composition, Literacy, and Culture) - Softcover

Book 17 of 87: Composition, Literacy, and Culture

Hawk, Byron

 
9780822959731: Counter-History of Composition, A: Toward Methodologies of Complexity: 163 (Composition, Literacy, and Culture)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0822959739 ISBN 13: 9780822959731
Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2007

Synopsis

Contests the assumption that vitalism and contemporary rhetoric represent opposing, disconnected poles in the writing tradition. Vitalism has been historically linked to expressivism and dismissed as innate and unteachable, whereas rhetoric is seen as a rational, teachable method for producing argumentative texts. Hawk calls for the reexamination of current pedagogies to incorporate vitalism and complexity theory and argues for their application in the environments where students write and think today.

Winner of the 2007 JAC W. Ross Winterowd Award
Honorable Mention, 2007 MLA Mina P. Shaughnessy Prize

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About the Author

Byron Hawk is associate professor of English at the University of South Carolina. He is the author of A Counter-History of Composition: Toward Methodologies of Complexity, winner of the W. Ross Winterowd Award, and coeditor of Small Tech: The Culture of D

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Publisher
University of Pittsburgh Press
Publication date
2007
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0822959739
ISBN 13 
9780822959731
Binding
Paperback
Edition number
1
Number of pages
400