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Designing Interactive Worlds With Words

Autor David S Kaufer, Brian S Butler
en Limba Engleză Paperback – mar 2000
No two writing situations are exactly the same and skilled writers, like skilled painters, must develop the know-how to represent the objects of their writing as part of a flexible art. This special art of writing lies hidden between grammar--the well-formedness of sentences--and genre--the capacity of texts to perform culturally holistic communicative functions (e.g., the memo, the strategic report, the letter to the editor). Concealed between grammar and genre, this less visible art of writing is what Kaufer and Butler call "representational composition." Texts within this hidden art are best viewed not primarily as grammatical units or as genre functions, but as bearers of design elements stimulating imagistic, narrative, and information-rich worlds, and as an invitation to readers to explore and interact with them.

This volume presents a systematic study of the principles that underlie writing as representational composition. Drawing from student models derived from a studio method, the authors use each chapter to present a different aspect of what unfolds--across the course of the book--into a cumulative, interactive, and unified body of representational principles underlying the design of texts. They reveal what makes the textual representations achieved by expert writers worthwhile, and, at the same time, difficult for novice writers to reproduce. Extending the framework of their 1996 volume, Rhetoric and the Arts of Design, into a realm of textual design, this volume will interest students and instructors of writing, rhetoric, and information design.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780805834246
ISBN-10: 0805834249
Pagini: 312
Dimensiuni: 163 x 230 x 20 mm
Greutate: 0.5 kg
Ediția:1
Editura: Taylor & Francis

Cuprins

Contents: Foreword. Preface. Introduction: Writing and Representational Composition. Part I: Portraiture. Self-Portraiture. Observer Portraiture. Part II: Landscapes. The Feel of Extended Space. The Feel of Elapsed Time. Part III: Invitations for Interaction. Invitations to Learn. Invitations to Do and Learn. Invitations to Decide. Epilogue: The Promise of Representational Theory in Writing Education.