He argues strongly and concretely for making the rhetorical art of adaptation central to first-year writing instruction, empowering students to navigate disciplinary and professional boundaries that await them beyond the writing classroom. He explores the major genres of the classroom (the syllabus, the writing prompt) as a way to introduce such an approach. Instead of mastering notions of "good" writing, Bawarshi feels that students gain more from learning how to adapt socially and rhetorically as they move from one "genred" site of action to the next. Bawarshi is also keenly interested in the writing classroom. This move calls for a thoroughly rhetorical view of invention, roughly in the tradition of Richard Young, Janice Lauer, and those who have followed them. Genre: An Introduction to History, Theory, Research, and Pedagogy provides a critical overview of the rich body of scholarship that has informed a 'genre turn' in Rhetoric and Composition, including a range of interdisciplinary. Reiff, Mary Jo and a great selection of related books, art and collectibles available now at. Such an approach naturally requires the composition scholar to re-place invention from the writer to the sites of action, the genres, in which the writer participates. writing studies, history of writing, Pedagogy, literary theory, genre studies. Genre: An Introduction to History, Theory, Research, and Pedagogy (Reference Guides to Rhetoric and Composition) by Bawarshi, Anis S. He argues, in fact, that invention is a process in which writers are acted upon by genres as much as they act themselves. 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. In a focused and compelling discussion, Anis Bawarshi looks to genre theory for what it can contribute to a refined understanding of invention.
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