Reimagining Process

Kyle Jensen

ISBN 10: 0809333716 / ISBN 13: 9780809333714

Published by Southern Illinois University Press, US, 2014

About this Item

For more than four decades, the dominant model for pedagogy and research in the field of composition has been a how-centered process approach to writing instruction, which involves studying the writing that students produce to expose the various stages of their writing process. By looking at notes, outlines, and multiple drafts, often presented by students together in the form of a portfolio, instructors can identify unproductive habits that students may have and provide techniques that help them improve their writing. In this groundbreaking volume, Kyle Jensen critiques traditional how-centered process instruction and presents a sound, practical methodology by which portfolios and online writing archives-digital interfaces that expose the marks of revision writers make during composition-might be employed to develop theories about what writing is: how it occurs, functions, circulates, creates meaning, and forms its subjects. Offering online writing archives as a way to envision a transdisciplinary approach to writing studies, Reimagining Process does not abandon the prevailing concepts of process pedagogy but rather casts them in wider contexts to conceive new ways of teaching and studying writing.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Reimagining Process
• Publisher: Southern Illinois University Press, US
• Publication Date: 2014
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0809333716
• ISBN 13: 9780809333714
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: New
• Weight: 272 grams

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Synopsis

For more than four decades, the dominant model for pedagogy and research in the field of composition has been a how-centered process approach to writing instruction, which involves studying the writing that students produce to expose the various stages of their writing process. By looking at notes, outlines, and multiple drafts, often presented by students together in the form of a portfolio, instructors can identify unproductive habits that students may have and provide techniques that help them improve their writing. In this groundbreaking volume, Kyle Jensen critiques traditional how-centered process instruction and presents a sound, practical methodology by which portfolios and online writing archives—digital interfaces that expose the marks of revision writers make during composition—might be employed to develop theories about what writing is: how it occurs, functions, circulates, creates meaning, and forms its subjects. Offering online writing archives as a way to envision a transdisciplinary approach to writing studies, Reimagining Process does not abandon the prevailing concepts of process pedagogy but rather casts them in wider contexts to conceive new ways of teaching and studying writing. 

About the Author

Kyle Jensen is an assistant professor of English at the University of North Texas. He has published essays in the edited collections Beyond Postprocess and Writing Posthumanism, Posthuman Writing, as well as in journals such as JAC and Rhetoric Review.