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Chris W. Gallagher – College Composition and Communication, 2016
This article offers a fuller account than we currently have of the complex, uneasy relationship between behaviorism and writing studies in order both to complicate our disciplinary historiography and to encourage writing scholars, teachers, and program administrators to articulate productive and unproductive understandings of writing behaviors.
Descriptors: Writing (Composition), Writing Instruction, Behaviorism, Behavior Patterns
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Jeffrey A. Bacha – College Composition and Communication, 2016
Borrowing from rhetorically based theories of usability, this article offers an invention tactic designed to help students understand how mundane features of everyday dwelling places have significant impacts on their educational experiences. Additionally, the offered tactic helps students understand how to craft rhetorical critiques in contexts…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Rhetoric, College English, Writing (Composition)
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Addison, Joanne; McGee, Sharon James – College Composition and Communication, 2010
This article synthesizes and extends data from some of the most prominent and promising large-scale research projects in writing studies while also presenting results from the authors' own research. By juxtaposing these studies, the authors offer a complex understanding of writing practices at the high school and college level. Future directions…
Descriptors: Writing Processes, High Schools, Trend Analysis, Research Projects
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Rice, Jenny Edbauer – College Composition and Communication, 2008
Teaching rhetorical production in a digital age calls for us to rethink our discipline's current distaste for writing mechanics. Yet, the digital mechanics of writing are much broader than grammatical concerns. They include production tools that allow for the invention and circulation of audio, visual, and Multigenre writing. (Contains 3 figures…
Descriptors: Writing Improvement, Rhetorical Invention, Rhetorical Theory, Grammar
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Shipka, Jody – College Composition and Communication, 2005
This essay presents a task-based multimodal framework for composing grounded in theories of multiple media and goal formation. By examining the way two students negotiated the complex communicative tasks presented them in class, the essay underscores the benefits associated with asking students to attend to the various motives, activities, tools,…
Descriptors: Writing (Composition), Writing Instruction, Writing Strategies