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Author Bawarshi, Anis S.

Title Genre and the invention of the writer : reconsidering the place of invention in composition / Anis S. Bawarshi.

Imprint Logan : Utah State University Press, ©2003.
Publication Info. ©2003

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Description 1 online resource (xi, 207 pages)
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Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 186-202) and index.
Contents Introduction: A Meditation on Beginnings -- The Genre Function -- Inventing the Writer in Composition Studies -- Constructing Desire: Genre and the Invention of Writing Subjects -- Sites of Invention: Genre and the Enactment of First-Year Writing -- Re-Placing Invention in Composition: Reflections and Implications.
Summary 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 w
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Language English.
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Subject English language -- Rhetoric -- Study and teaching.
English language -- Composition and exercises -- Study and teaching.
Invention (Rhetoric)
Literary form.
Invention (Rhétorique)
Genres littéraires.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Authorship.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Rhetoric.
English language -- Composition and exercises -- Study and teaching
English language -- Rhetoric -- Study and teaching
Invention (Rhetoric)
Literary form
Other Form: Print version: Bawarshi, Anis S. Genre and the invention of the writer. Logan, Utah : Utah State University Press, ©2003 0874215544 (DLC) 2002153375 (OCoLC)50960743
ISBN 0874214769 (electronic bk.)
9780874214765 (electronic bk.)
6613267007
9786613267009
0874215544 (pbk. ; alk. paper)
9780874215540 (pbk. ; alk. paper)
1283267004
9781283267007
Standard No. AU@ 000055605297
GBVCP 1008648361
UKMGB 020143642

 
    
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