Use brainstorming questions that probe a subject's social life and prior discursive handling¶

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Description¶

A dialogic approach to probing subjects during the writing process entails paying attention to the subject's social life. During brainstorming, teachers ask questions such as "How has this subject been previously handled in oral and written discourse?" and "How does this subject implicate us as authors and readers?" This implements Bakhtin's view that subjects carry within themselves the traces of preceding usage.

Design Implications¶

Context¶

Requirements¶

• Students must be prompted to consider the subject's history in oral and written discourse and its implications for authors and readers

Constraints¶

Target Learners¶

• college composition students

Target Learning Goals¶

• understanding subjects as existing in social and historical context

Affordances¶

• Dialogism Intertextuality Utterance Context

Related Strategies¶

• Embrace pedagogical strategies that emphasize openness rather than closure and posit change as the norm

Examples¶

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Key Sources¶

• Ewald, Helen Rothschild. (1990). Mikhail Bakhtin and "Expressive Discourse." Paper presented at the Conference on College Composition and Communication. https://eric.ed.gov/?id=ED318031