![]() He argues strongly and concretely for making the rhetorical art of adaptation central to first-year writing instruction, empowering students to navigate disciplinary and professional boundaries that await them beyond the writing classroom. Anis Bawarshi U he past fifteen years have witnessed a dramatic reconceptualization of genre and its role in the production and interpretation of texts and culture. Context for Inquiry: A Guide to Research and Writi Stuart Greene and April Lidinsky, Lisa Ede, Matthew Parfit, Amanda Hobmeier, Amanda Hobmeier, Kirin Wachter-Grene, Taylor Boulware, Lilly Campbell, Leanne Day, Kimberlee Gillis-Bridges, Jeffrey Janosik, Anis Bawarshi on. He explores the major genres of the classroom (the syllabus, the writing prompt) as a way to introduce such an approach. Instead of mastering notions of "good" writing, Bawarshi feels that students gain more from learning how to adapt socially and rhetorically as they move from one "genred" site of action to the next. Bawarshi is also keenly interested in the writing classroom. While longitudinal research within the field of writing studies has contributed to our understanding of postsecondary students’ writing development, there has been less attention given to the discursive resources students bring with them into writing classrooms and how they make use of these resources in first-year composition courses. This move calls for a thoroughly rhetorical view of invention, roughly in the tradition of Richard Young, Janice Lauer, and those who have followed them. West Lafayette: Parlor Press and The WAC Clear - inghouse, 2010. ![]() Such an approach naturally requires the composition scholar to re-place invention from the writer to the sites of action, the genres, in which the writer participates. He argues, in fact, that invention is a process in which writers are acted upon by genres as much as they act themselves. In describing what he calls "the genre function," he explores what is at stake for the study and teaching of writing to imagine invention as a way that writers locate themselves, via genres, within various positions and activities. In a focused and compelling discussion, Anis Bawarshi looks to genre theory for what it can contribute to a refined understanding of invention.
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