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Acknowledging Writing Partners

by Laura R. Micciche

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Perspectives on Writing Series

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Acknowledging Writing Partners treats the genre of written acknowledgements as a lens for viewing writing as a practice of indebted partnerships. Like new media scholars who have argued that studying ubiquitous technologies such as the pencil reveals the mundane and profound ways in which writing is always mediated by tools, Laura R. Micciche argues that writing activities are frequently mediated by human and non-human others, advancing a view of composing that accounts for partners who emerge in acknowledgements: feelings, animals, and random material phenomena. Acknowledgements are micro economies of debt and praise; they reveal writing's connectedness, often repressed by the argument or set of propositions that follow. Micciche suggests new methods for studying and theorizing writing that take into account the whole surround of writing. In doing so, Micciche asks what difference this economy makes to dominant conceptions of writers and writing as well as to pedagogical principles that inform writing instruction—and what difference it make to writers.

 

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Laura R. Micciche is professor of English and director of the rhetoric and composition graduate program at the University of Cincinnati. She is author of Acknowledging Writing Partners and Doing Emotion: Rhetoric, Writing, Teaching, coeditor of Failure Pedagogies: Learning and Unlearning What It Means to Fail and A Way to Move: Rhetorics of Emotion and Composition, and coeditor of the WPA Book Series for Parlor Press.

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  • Paperback Price: $21.95
  • Paperback ISBN: 978-1-60732-767-7
  • Publication Month: December
  • Publication Year: 2017
  • Pages: 162
  • Discount Type: Short
  • Author: by Laura R. Micciche
  • ECommerce Code: 978-1-60732-767-7

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