Beyond Productivity
Embodied, Situated, and (Un)Balanced Faculty Writing Processes
“This book helps to expand the notion of what counts as research and scholarship. The calls for a more expansive list of methods and methodologies are refreshing and offer new perspectives of the dynamic nature of writers, their actions, and the contexts in which they write.”
—Claire Lutkewitte, Nova Southeastern University
“A rich and meaningful addition to research on writing transfer that imagines new avenues of inquiry for transfer research through an accounting of contemporary writing practices.”
—John Pell, Whitworth University
“Considering the proliferation of multimodality in first-year composition, this collection is essential reading for graduate students and new instructors.”
—Literacy in Composition Studies
“The various chapters of the text productively expand the idea of what counts as multimodality and transfer… As digital media technologies and cloud-based infrastructure become increasingly significant venues of communication, multimodal composition will be critical for supporting student writing transfer.”
—Composition Forum
Multimodal Composing and Writing Transfer explores transfer across various contexts of multimodal composing, extending the early conversations connecting multimodality to writing. Contributors address how writing transfer theories intersect with multimodal composing and present methods for facilitating transfer across modes and media, offering insight into how writers can learn to compose when they encounter familiar modes in new contexts.
Over the past two decades the concepts of multimodal composing and writing transfer have grown and reshaped the nature of writing studies, but rarely have the ways in which these areas overlap been studied. This collection shows how this shift in writing studies has been mutually informative, covering a wider range of contexts for multimodality and writing transfer than just in first-year composition courses. It places composition teaching practices and multimodal research in conversation with learning transfer theory to provide an in-depth examination of how they influence one another.
Multimodal Composing and Writing Transfer develops these intersections to connect multimodal composition and writing practices across a wide array of fields and contexts. Scholars across disciplines, postsecondary writing teachers, writing program administrators, writing center directors, and graduate students will find this collection indispensable.
Contributors: Kara Poe Alexander, Chris M. Anson, Logan Bearden, Becca Cassady, Michael-John DePalma, Jialei Jiang, Anna Knutson, Travis Maynard, Jeff Naftzinger, Josie Rose Portz, Kevin Roozen, Ryan Shepherd, Crystal VanKooten, Joseph Anthony Wilson, Kathleen Blake Yancey
