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Paperback. Num Pages: 176 pages. BIC Classification: CJA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 13. Weight in Grams: 227.
In Everyday Genres: Writing Assignments across the Disciplines, Mary Soliday calls on genre theory- which proposes that writing cannot be separated from social situation-to analyze the common assignments given to writing students in the college classroom, and to investigate how new writers and expert readers respond to a variety of types of coursework in different fields. This in-depth study of writing pedagogy looks at many challenges facing both instructors and students in college composition classes, and offers a thorough and refreshing exploration of writing experience, ability, and rhetorical situation.
Soliday provides an overview of the contemporary theory and research ... Read more
In Everyday Genres: Writing Assignments across the Disciplines, Mary Soliday calls on genre theory- which proposes that writing cannot be separated from social situation-to analyze the common assignments given to writing students in the college classroom, and to investigate how new writers and expert readers respond to a variety of types of coursework in different fields. This in-depth study of writing pedagogy looks at many challenges facing both instructors and students in college composition classes, and offers a thorough and refreshing exploration of writing experience, ability, and rhetorical situation.
Soliday provides an overview of the contemporary theory and research ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Southern Illinois University Press United States
Number of pages
176
Condition
New
Number of Pages
176
Place of Publication
Carbondale, United States
ISBN
9780809330195
SKU
V9780809330195
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About Mary Soliday
Mary Soliday is a professor of English and the director of Writing across the Curriculum and in the Disciplines at San Francisco State University. She is the author of Politics of Remediation: Institutional and Student Needs in Higher Education, which won the 2004 CCCC Outstanding Book Award.
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