Assembling Composition

by Kathleen Blake Yancey (Editor), Stephen J. McElroy (Editor)

Drawing on historical studies as well as on current innovations of composing, Assembling Composition provides a new framework for understanding composing.  As Kathleen Blake Yancey, Stephen J. McElroy, and their contributors detail, assemblage theory explains disparate composing practices—from postcard production in the early twentieth century to database-informed composing in the twenty-first, from museum-inspired collecting to creative repetitions of authentic Native American practices. And as a key concept, assemblage has been field tested in several settings, including first-year composition, upper-level writing courses, and graduate courses. Assembling Composition speaks particularly to four dimensions of   Collectively, these chapters complicate and enrich our understandings of composing, our sense of what constitutes a text, and our expectation of the potential effects of texts.

246 pages, Paperback

Published March 16, 2017