Based in current genre theory, this guide helps writers make more informed rhetorical choices and participate more effectively within academic, workplace and public contexts. This text illustrates how to use genres to assess, understand, and write within different scenes or writing situations. Discussions of writing for academic contexts cover writing analysis, argument, and research-based genres. Public and workplace writing is illustrated though discussions of other genresletters, resumes, proposals, reports.

Scenes of Writing: Strategies for Composing with Genres

Reference

Devitt, Amy

Reiff, Mary Jo

Bawarshi, Anis

Words, Language & Grammar

Pearson

This a concise text covers the major approaches to audience, from treatments in classical rhetoric to those in current composition studies. It provides new and prospective teachers with practical information that they can use to approach the difficult question of audience more productively in the classroom. 
Features include sample heuristics, sample assignments, discussion questions (within each chapter), questions for further consideration (at end of each chapter), and recommendations for further reading.

Approaches to Audience: An Overview of the Major Perspectives

Parlay Press

GENRE: AN INTRODUCTION TO HISTORY, THEORY, RESEARCH, AND PEDAGOGY provides a critical overview of the rich body of scholarship that has informed a "genre turn" in Rhetoric and Composition, including a range of interdisciplinary perspectives from rhetorical theory, applied linguistics, sociology, philosophy, cognitive psychology, and literary theory. The book presents an historical overview of genre; describes key issues and theories that have led to the reconceptualization of genre over the last thirty years; examines current research and lines of development in the study of genre; provides examples of various methodologies for conducting genre research; and explores the possibilities and implications for using genre to teach writing at various levels and within different disciplines. While the book examines various traditions that have shaped the field's understanding of and approaches to genre, what connects these various approaches is a commitment to the idea that genres reflect and coordinate social ways of knowing and acting in the world and thus provide valuable means of researching how texts function in various contexts and teaching students how to act meaningfully in multiple contexts.   REFERENCE GUIDES TO RHETORIC AND COMPOSITION SERIES EDITOR, CHARLES BAZERMAN ABOUT THE AUTHORS ANIS BAWARSHI is Associate professor of English and Director of the Expository Writing Program at the University of Washington and author of Genre and the Invention of the Writer: Reconsidering the Place of Invention in Composition (2003); Scenes of Writing: Strategies for Composing with Genres (2004; with Amy Devitt and Mary Jo Reiff); A Closer Look: A Writer's Reader (2003; with Sidney I. Dobrin). MARY JO REIFF is Associate Professor of English at the University of Tennessee-Knoxville and author of Approaches to Audience: An Overview of the Major Perspectives (2004), co-author (with Amy Devitt and Anis Bawarshi) of Scenes of Writing: Strategies for Composing with Genres (2004), and co-editor (with Kirsten Benson) of Rhetoric of Inquiry (2009).

Genre: An Introduction to History, Theory, Research, and Pedagogy (Reference Guides to Rhetoric and Composition)

Literature & Fiction

Bawarshi, Anis S.

History & Criticism

Parlor Press

GENRE: AN INTRODUCTION TO HISTORY, THEORY, RESEARCH, AND PEDAGOGY provides a critical overview of the rich body of scholarship that has informed a "genre turn" in Rhetoric and Composition, including a range of interdisciplinary perspectives from rhetorical theory, applied linguistics, sociology, philosophy, cognitive psychology, and literary theory. The book presents an historical overview of genre; describes key issues and theories that have led to the reconceptualization of genre over the last thirty years; examines current research and lines of development in the study of genre; provides examples of various methodologies for conducting genre research; and explores the possibilities and implications for using genre to teach writing at various levels and within different disciplines. While the book examines various traditions that have shaped the field's understanding of and approaches to genre, what connects these various approaches is a commitment to the idea that genres reflect and coordinate social ways of knowing and acting in the world and thus provide valuable means of researching how texts function in various contexts and teaching students how to act meaningfully in multiple contexts.   REFERENCE GUIDES TO RHETORIC AND COMPOSITION SERIES EDITOR, CHARLES BAZERMAN ABOUT THE AUTHORS ANIS BAWARSHI is Associate professor of English and Director of the Expository Writing Program at the University of Washington and author of Genre and the Invention of the Writer: Reconsidering the Place of Invention in Composition (2003); Scenes of Writing: Strategies for Composing with Genres (2004; with Amy Devitt and Mary Jo Reiff); A Closer Look: A Writer's Reader (2003; with Sidney I. Dobrin). MARY JO REIFF is Associate Professor of English at the University of Tennessee-Knoxville and author of Approaches to Audience: An Overview of the Major Perspectives (2004), co-author (with Amy Devitt and Anis Bawarshi) of Scenes of Writing: Strategies for Composing with Genres (2004), and co-editor (with Kirsten Benson) of Rhetoric of Inquiry (2009).

Parlor Pr

Scenes of Writing teaches students how to use genres to understand and write effectively for any situation, whether academic, workplace, or public. Based on current research in rhetorical genre theory that defines genres as rhetorical and social actions (the ways people make their way in the world, from thank you notes and horoscopes to editorials and progress reports to analysis papers and legal briefs), this textbook helps students gain and use knowledge of genres to make more critically informed and effective writing decisions within various scenes of writing. Learning such strategies provides students with transferable skills and knowledge to adapt their writing wherever and whenever they need to—in college and in the rest of their lives. To help students see and understand their possible choices, Scenes of Writing teaches stu¬dents strategies for observing and analyzing writing scenes, showing them how the genres produced in those scenes reflect various situa¬tions—their readers and writers, purposes, subjects, and settings. Understood in this way, genres are kinds of texts that help writ¬ers gain access to and participate in the scenes in which they are used. Structurally, Scenes of Writing moves from teaching students how to observe a writing scene and its situations (the readers, writers, purposes, subjects, and settings), to analyzing and critiquing the genres used to participate within the situations and scenes. Students examine the textual patterns of genres (content, appeals, structure, format, sentences, words) and what they reveal about the people who use the genres (their values and beliefs), the scenes in which the genres are used, and the activities that take place there. The book also focuses students' attention on the ways that they can critique existing genres and invites them to write differently, to design changed genres that meet different goals or reinforce different values and beliefs. Students apply this knowledge to the analysis and production of genres in academic, workplace, and public contexts. Teachers and students alike will appreciate that the book’s approach cultivates transferable skills by helping students use genre knowledge to read and write their way into different situations inside and outside of a writing class. Students learn how to read contexts and then turn that reading of context into their writing in context, becoming more agile and astute writ¬ers who make informed writing choices as they negotiate among and participate in various scenes of writing. In the end,

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Scenes of Writing: Strategies for Composing with Genres

Approaches to Audience: An Overview of the Major Perspectives

Genre: An Introduction to History, Theory, Research, and Pedagogy (Reference Guides to Rhetoric and Composition)

Genre: An Introduction to History, Theory, Research, and Pedagogy (Reference Guides to Rhetoric and Composition)

Scenes of Writing: Strategies for Composing with Genres