附註:Includes bibliographical references (pages 186-202) and index.
Introduction: A Meditation on Beginnings -- The Genre Function -- Inventing the Writer in Composition Studies -- Constructing Desire: Genre and the Invention of Writing Subjects -- Sites of Invention: Genre and the Enactment of First-Year Writing -- Re-Placing Invention in Composition: Reflections and Implications.
摘要:In a focused and compelling discussion, Anis Bawarshi looks to genre theory for what it can contribute to a refined understanding of invention. 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. He argues, in fact, that invention is a process in which writers are acted upon by genres as much as they act themselves. Such an approach naturally requires the composition scholar to re-place invention from the w.
