by Carolyn Miller (Editor), Carolyn R . Miller (Editor), Amy Devitt (Editor), Amy J . Devitt (Author), Carolyn Miller (Editor), Amy Devitt (Editor), Amy J. Devitt (Author), Carolyn R. Miller (Editor)
Landmark Essays on Rhetorical Genre Studies gathers major works that have contributed to the recent rhetorical reconceptualization of genre. A lively and complex field developed over the past 30 years, Rhetorical Genre Studies is central to many current research and teaching agendas. This collection, which is organized both thematically and chronologically, explores genre research across a range of disciplinary interests but with a specific focus on rhetoric and composition. With introductions by the co-editors to frame and extend each section, this volume helps readers understand and contextualize both the foundations of the field and the central themes and insights that have emerged. It will be of particular interest to students and scholars working on topics related to composition, rhetoric, professional and technical writing, and applied linguistics.
Format: Paperback
Pages: 282
Edition: 1
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 02 Oct 2018
ISBN 10: 1138047708
ISBN 13: 9781138047709
In one volume we find RGS's necessary historical contexts, the early innovations, and the pioneering applications to critique and pedagogy. With judicious curation and lucid framing, Miller and Devitt have given the field what it has long needed: ready access to the deep clear spring of its foundational texts - endlessly renewing, endlessly instructive.
-Dylan B. Dryer, University of Maine, USA
Miller and Devitt's indispensable new collection compiles essential reading for anyone interested in genre as a way to understand written communication. With its historical perspective and foundational texts, this book offers a rich resource for newcomers and experts alike.
-Christine Tardy, University of Arizona, USA
With its compilation of foundational historical and theoretical perspectives on genre and inclusion of richly varied, groundbreaking studies reconceptualizing genre, this book is an invaluable resource for scholars. Key features include critical attention to genre ideologies and innovative genre pedagogies. The book is truly a landmark, identifying and locating essential readings on RGS.
Edited by leading RGS scholars, this collection features foundational historical and theoretical perspectives and richly varied, groundbreaking studies of genre, including critical attention to genre ideologies and innovative pedagogical perspectives. The book is an invaluable resource for scholars and is truly a landmark, identifying and locating essential readings on RGS.
-Mary Jo Reiff, University of Kansas, USA