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How Stories Teach Us
Composition, Life Writing, and Blended Scholarship
ISBN/EAN: 9781433165924
Umbreit-Nr.: 7604997
Sprache:
Englisch
Umfang: 222 S.
Format in cm: 1.3 x 22.5 x 15
Einband:
kartoniertes Buch
Erschienen am 24.05.2019
Auflage: 1/2019
- Zusatztext
- In How Stories Teach Us: Composition, Life Writing, and Blended Scholarship, Amy E. Robillard and D. Shane Combs leave behind the debate between the personal and the academic in composition studies in order to witness what happens when composition scholars allow both the personal and the academic to act upon them in the stories they tell. The editors and contributors, in blending their scholarship, celebrate the influence of life writing on their work and allow the contexts of their lives and the urgency of their stories to blend together for a range of approaches to scholarship and essay writing. This blended scholarship features scholars and teachers dealing with loss, grief, illness, trauma, depression, abuse, gender identity, and the ravages of time. How Stories Teach Us is both a challenge and an invitation to composition scholars to pursue a fuller and more robust approach to their scholarship and life stories. It is also an invitation to teachers of composition to open up the potentials of blended scholarship to the students they teach.
- Kurztext
- In How Stories Teach Us, the contributors celebrate the influence of life writing on their work and use a range of approaches to scholarship and essay writing. The collection discusses dealing with loss, grief, illness, trauma, depression, abuse, gender identity, and the ravages of time.
- Autorenportrait
- Amy E. Robillard earned her PhD at Syracuse University and is Professor of Composition and Rhetoric at Illinois State University. Her personal essays have appeared on The Rumpus and Full Grown People. D. Shane Combs is pursuing a PhD in English studies from Illinois State University. His work centers narrative and storytelling in composition and life writing. His writing has appeared in Composition Forum, Composition Studies, Writing on the Edge, and Assay: A Journal of Nonfiction Studies.