Blog: Current
Issues Review
What we know about writing we first
learn from our teachers in school. Yet as we’ve seen with the holdover of
current-traditional rhetoric in classrooms well beyond its acceptance among
scholars of writing, what we’re taught is often outdated ideas about the art of
writing. Thus to understand current issues in writing, we need to look at
the conversations taking place among scholars in academic journals and consider
how these new conversations will ultimately affect our understanding of writing
itself.
Therefore, for this assignment, you
are asked to select one article from one current issue of a composition studies
journal to summarize and review for its contributions to the study of
writing. The assignment requires the following:
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Choose one of the journals listed below
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Select an article from a recent issue of that journal
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Read and summarize the article’s main argument(s)
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Argue why this article is important
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Explain how this conversation is useful
You should draw on the language and
concepts about the different approaches to writing we’ve covered so far.
Journals in Composition Studies: College
Composition and Communication, College English, Composition
Studies, Computers and Composition, JAC: A
Journal of Composition Theory
NOTE: Most of the journals are available through online
databases at the Auraria Library website.
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Length: There is no page length, but sometimes it
will not allow long extended post, so, if you have issues, you may have to
enter two separate posts.
MLA Format/Documentation
