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scholars of writing, what we’re taught is often outdated ideas about the art of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:
- Choose one of the journals
listed below
- Select an article from a
recent issue of that journal
- Read and summarize the
article’s main argument(s)
- Argue why this article is
important
- 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.
Post a response: April 25th
Respond to other posts: May 2nd
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
