Rewriting
How to Do Things With Texts, Second Edition
Utah State University Press · Print & ebook · August 1, 2017
“Like all writers, intellectuals need to say something new and say it well.
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- Who it’s for
- See academic writing as adaptive work shaped by sources, ideas, and intellectual exchange.
- Themes
- Academic writing as social activity, Working with sources, Digital writing
- Genres
- Academic Writing, Rhetoric, Writing Composition
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“Like all writers, intellectuals need to say something new and say it well. But for intellectuals, unlike many other writers, what we have to say is bound up with the books we are reading . . . and the ideas of the people we are talking with.” What are the moves that an academic writer makes? How does writing as an intellectual change the way we work from sources?
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In Rewriting, Joseph Harris draws the college writing student away from static ideas of thesis, support, and structure, and toward a more mature and dynamic understanding. Harris wants college writers to think of intellectual writing as an adaptive and social activity, and he offers them a clear set of strategies—a set of moves—for participating in it. Introducing remixing as an additional signature move and updated with new attention to digital writing, the second edition both extends and rethinks the ideas of the original.
Writing in Conversation
See academic writing as adaptive work shaped by sources, ideas, and intellectual exchange.
Come here for
- Ways to make moves with texts and sources
- A social view of intellectual writing
Expect
- Strategies for working with sources
- Attention to remixing and digital writing
Where it sits
| Academic Writing | 70% |
|---|---|
| Writing Composition | 53% |
| Rhetoric | 38% |
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Publisher categories
- Culturally Responsive Teaching
- Writing Composition
- Authors
- Joseph Harris
- Publisher
- Utah State University Press
- Published
- August 1, 2017
- Format
- Print & ebook
- Theme
- Academic writing as social activity · Working with sources · Digital writing
- Reading lane
- Culturally Responsive Teaching