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Situating Writing Processes

Physicality, Improvisation, and the Teaching of Writing

by Hannah J. Rule

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Perspectives on Writing series
Copublished with the WAC Clearinghouse


What should it mean today to "teach writing as a process"? In Situating Writing Processes, Hannah J. Rule takes stock of this familiar commonplace in composition studies, arguing for a renewed understanding of process that emphasizes situatedness. To situate processes is to physically locate them: to observe the infinite ways they are shaped by particular bodies and affects, environments and spaces, others near and distant, and various tools or objects. When we call attention to the physical, material, and located dimensions of processes, we foreground the differences, contingencies, and lived experiences of composing. Doing so is critical, Rule argues, to finally letting go of discrete skills and instead teaching writing as experience in seeing and responding to ranging constraints immediate and distant, material and social. Situating processes ultimately emphasizes vulnerability: how all writing involves risk, uncertainty, and the possibility of failure, as processes are susceptible to the participation and control of forces on ranging scales and always in excess of the writer alone. Accounting for context, difference, and improvisation, Situating Writing Processes helps writing teachers and scholars freshly reimagine the histories and potential of an enduring concept.

This book is also available as an open access ebook through the WAC Clearinghouse.

Hannah J. Rule is associate professor of English in composition and rhetoric at the University of South Carolina. She is the author of Situating Writing Processes and coeditor, with Cydney Alexis, of The Material Culture of Writing. Her scholarship also appears in College Composition and Communication, Composition Studies, and Composition Forum.

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  • Paperback Price: $24.00
  • Paperback ISBN: 978-1-60732-923-7
  • Publication Month: April
  • Publication Year: 2020
  • Pages: 182
  • Discount Type: Short
  • Author: by Hannah J. Rule
  • ECommerce Code: 978-1-60732-923-7

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