Reimagining First-Year Writing

The Intersection of Art, Design, and Inquiry
1. Auflage 2027
ISBN: 978-1-041-22058-9
Verlag: Taylor & Francis

Buch, Englisch, 258 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm

Offering an introduction to teaching writing as a process of making, reflecting, designing, and revising, this book shows how writing classrooms can borrow from studio art, design thinking, and arts-based research to make first-year writing more creative, inclusive, and meaningful.

Reimagining First-Year Writing responds to the needs of students learning in a world shaped by digital media, social change, mental health concerns, and global uncertainty, arguing that writing courses should help students connect academic work to lived experience and real-world questions. The book combines accessible theory with practical classroom guidance, including sample assignments, lesson ideas, critique models, and community-centered research activities. Its key contribution is a sustained framework for treating the writing classroom as a creative research studio where students experiment with materials, audiences, genres, and purposes. By bringing together studio habits such as risk-taking, iteration, collaboration, and reflection with design-based problem-solving, this book gives educators adaptable tools for building more engaged, equitable, and future-facing writing courses.

Written for college writing instructors, graduate students, writing program administrators, and educators interested in multimodal learning, student development, equitable pedagogies, community-based writing, and literacy studies in first-year writing programs.

Zielgruppe

Academic and Postgraduate

Autoren/Hrsg.

Rubino-DeLucia, Vittoria Sofia

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Sprechwissenschaft, Rhetorik
• Sozialwissenschaften Medien- und Kommunikationswissenschaften Kommunikationswissenschaften
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Schreiben und Publizieren, Kreatives Schreiben

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Invoking the Studio Art Spirit  2. Studio Art Practices for the First-Year Writing Classroom  3. Cultivating a Design Disposition  4. Teaching Writing as Design Thinking and Problem Solving  5. Reframing Research through Arts-Based Research Methods  6. The First-Year Writing Classroom as Research Studio  7. Conclusion: Positioning Writing Instruction as Creative, Critical, and Communal Inquiry

Über Autor(innen)

Vittoria Sofia Rubino-DeLucia is an Assistant Professor of English and Literary Studies at Ramapo College of New Jersey. Her research focuses on writing pedagogy, writing center administration, writing program administration, and the intersections of art, design, and inquiry in first-year writing.