How Writing Works: Multidisciplinary Perspectives on the Processes of Composition

Session Type: Symposium

Abstract

The main objective of this symposium is to examine writing processes from multidisciplinary perspectives. One presentation explains the multidisciplinary theoretical framing for the session, and then reports results from a study of writing comparing composition in music and writing. The second extends appraisal theory to articulate a multimodal language of emotions in an analysis of adolescent book trailers. The third focuses on results from a study of the role of craft knowledge in the composing process, and how such knowledge might shape the teaching of composition. The fourth focuses on children’s conceptions of writing in relation to digital video composition. The symposium reports new research findings on writing, and identifies potential areas of knowledge for future development and research.

Sub Unit

• SIG-Writing and Literacies

Chair

• Steve Graham, Arizona State University

Papers

• The Music of Writing: Eminent Writers' Reflections on Written Composition - Dominic Wyse, Institute of Education - London

• The Multimodal Language of Emotions in Early Adolescent Book Trailers as Digital Media Composition - Kathy Ann Mills, Australian Catholic University; Len Unsworth, Australian Catholic University; Georgina McFarlane Barton, Griffith University

• The Role of Craft Knowledge in Composing Processes - Debra Ann Myhill, University of Exeter

• "I Guess It Helped": The Complexities of Writing for Digital Video Composition - Jessica Zacher Pandya, California State University - Long Beach

Discussant

• David R. Olson, OISE/University of Toronto