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Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1999.
Gibson, The Ecological Approach to Visual Perception
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Erlbaum, 1986.
Cooper, “The Ecology of Writing”
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Hayles, Writing Machines
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Gibson, “Theory of Affordances”
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Phelps, “The Domain of Composition”
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Bawarshi, Genre and the Invention of the Writer
Anis Bawarshi develops a case for a genre-studies-based first-year writing
curriculum. In the courses teachers would introduce students to sampled
genre sets from selected disciplines or professional fields (studying, in
effect, lab reports as a genre, or other professional document types).
Students would analyze the genres, writing both in them and about them; hence,
composition would have as its impetus a pragmatic extra-disciplinary
awareness of the writing students will do in their major areas of study and, as
well, bona fide content: writing itself (in all its forms, in and beyond the
academy). As Bawarshi’s project builds an argument for this model, he
reasons that a more comprehensive, nuanced understanding of genre is one
(though perhaps golden) ticket to composition’s status as a discipline and
might also serve us with a compelling justification for the first-year writing
sequence.