Writing about Writing and the Multimajor Professional Writing Course

Authors

Sarah Read, Portland State UniversityFollow
Michael J. Michaud, Rhode Island College

Published In

College Composition and Communication

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

2015

Subjects

Academic writing -- Study and teaching (Higher), Composition (Language arts), English language -- Rhetoric -- Study and teaching (Higher)

Abstract

This article connects the pedagogy of the multimajor professional writing (MMPW) course with two important contemporary discussions in composition studies: the pedagogy called writing about writing (WAW) and the conversation about the transferability of rhetorical knowledge from school to work. The authors argued that the capaciousness of the WAW approach accommodates the best of genre-based and client-based pedagogies for the MMPW course and provides a framework for expanding the course beyond skill-based outcomes to include preparing students to be learning transformers. The article includes two iterations of what a writing about writing -- professional writing course can look like.

Description

This is the final published pdf.

Copyright (2015) National Council of Teachers of English.

*At the time of publication, Sarah Read was affiliated with Depaul University.

Persistent Identifier

http://archives.pdx.edu/ds/psu/21982

Citation Details

Read, S., & Michaud, M. J. (2015). Writing about writing and the multimajor professional writing course. College Composition and Communication, 66(3), 427.