Prolific Moment

Theory and Practice of Mindfulness for Writing
1. Auflage 2018
ISBN: 978-1-138-49359-9
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 202 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 304 g

Prolific Moment: Theory and Practice of Mindfulness for Writing foregrounds the present in all activities of composing, offering a new perspective on the rhetorical situation and the writing process. A focus on the present casts light on standard writing components—audience, invention, and revision—while bringing forth often overlooked nuances of the writing experience—intrapersonal rhetoric, the preverbal, and preconception. This pedagogy of mindful writing can alleviate the suffering of writing blocks that comes from mindless, future-oriented rhetorics. Much is lost with a misplaced present moment because students forfeit rewarding writing experiences for stress, frustration, boredom, fear, and shortchanged invention. Writing becomes a very different experience if students think of it more consistently as part of a discrete now. Peary examines mindfulness as a metacognitive practice and turns to foundational Buddhist concepts of no-self, emptiness, impermanence, and detachment for methods for observing the moment in the writing classroom. This volume is a fantastic resource for future and current instructors and scholars of composition, rhetoric, and writing studies.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Peary, Alexandria

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Schreiben und Publizieren, Kreatives Schreiben

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Table of Contents



Dedication

Acknowledgements

Hymn of Binaries, Mantra for Equanimity: Wooden Sculpture [Preface]

Introduction

Chapter One: Present Moment, Writing Moment

Interchapter

Chapter Two: The Monkey Mind of Intrapersonal Rhetoric

Interchapter

Chapter Three: The Verbal Emptiness of Mindful Invention

Interchapter

Chapter Four: Mind Waves, Mind Weeds, Preconceptions

Interchapter

Chapter Five: Their Ability To Write Is Always Present: A Disciplinary Context for Mindfulness

Glossary

Works Cited

Über Autor(innen)

Alexandria Peary coordinates the first-year writing program and is a professor in the English department at Salem State University where she teaches courses in creative writing and composition. Peary’s blog Your Ability to Write is Always Present (alexandriapeary.blogspot.com) focuses on mindful writing and has an international following. She has given talks on mindful writing at institutions around the United States and in the U.K.