Edited by Debra Journet, Cheryl E. Ball, & Ryan Trauman
Book overview. This edited collection explores theoretical and practical questions about multimodal, digital production through lenses of rhetoric/composition, digital writing studies, English studies, and the humanities.
Re-inventing Invention: A Performance in Three Acts
Bre Garrett, Denise Landrum-Geyer, and Jason Palmeri
Abstract. Challenging the conventional linear form of much scholarship on rhetorical invention, this webtext employs video montages, random image generators, and other new media tools to show how invention is a profoundly embodied, social process that arises from the juxtaposition of disparate materials.
APA Citation: Garrett, Bre; Landrum-Geyer, Denise; & Palmeri, Jason. (2012). Re-inventing invention: A performance in three acts. In Debra Journet, Cheryl E. Ball, & Ryan Trauman (Eds.), The new work of composing. Computers and Composition Digital Press/Utah State University Press. http://ccdigitalpress.org/nwc/chapters/garrett-et-al/
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As we began working on this chapter, we decided to create a blog in which we collected texts and images for our invention box (Act 3) as a sort of commonplace book. In addition to collecting images and quotes from other sources, the blog became a place for us to collaboratively compose and share drafts of Acts 1 and 2 as well as another place for our ongoing conversations about invention. We invite you to view this blog as more evidence of the messiness of inventing and composing; this is our effort to make our process(es) more transparent to our audience.