I-BEAM:InstanceSource Use and Research Writing Pedagogy

Phillip Troutman George Washington University ; Mark Mullen George Washington University

Abstract

Joseph Bizup's BEAM schema establishes a rhetorical approach to research writing pedagogy, articulating four distinct ways writers use sources: for background, exhibit, argument, and method. This article rechristens the framework I-BEAM, identifying a fifth category: instance source use, a constitutive function that establishes the need for the writer's argument. Instance source moves appear in numerous locations––introductions, textual asides, footnotes/endnotes, and epigraphs––and can situate the writing in both academic and popular contexts. Attention to this exigency move highlights the problem of authenticity in school-based writing and raises questions about sources formative to the writer but invisible to the reader.

Journal
Rhetoric Review
Published
2015-04-03
DOI
10.1080/07350198.2015.1008919
CompPile
Search in CompPile ↗
Open Access
Closed
Topics
Export

Citation Context

Cited by in this index (1)

  1. Written Communication

References (28) · 7 in this index

  1. Research Writing Revisited: A Sourcebook for Teachers
  2. When a Writer Can’t Write: Studies in Writer’s Block and Other Composing Process Problems
  3. The Chronicle of Higher Education
  4. Philosophy and Rhetoric
  5. Rhetoric Review
Show all 28 →
  1. Rhetoric Review
  2. Situating Composition: Composition Studies and the Politics of Location
  3. 10.1890/0012-9658(2004)085[0880:NLBLF]2.0.CO;2
  4. Time on the Cross: The Economics of Negro Slavery
  5. Time on the Cross: Evidence and Methods—A Supplement
  6. They Say/I Say: The Moves That Matter in Academic Writing
  7. The Footnote: A Curious History
  8. Slavery and the Numbers Game: A Critique of Time on the Cross
  9. Rewriting: How to Do Things with Texts
  10. Documentation: A History and Critique of Attribution, Commentary, Glosses, Marginalia, No…
  11. Teaching Literary Research: Challenges in a Changing Environment
  12. Writing and Pedagogy
  13. Written Communication
  14. Philosophy and Rhetoric
  15. Computers and Composition Online
  16. College English
  17. Rhetoric and Kairos: Essays in History, Theory, and Praxis
  18. 10.1080/01463379609370010
  19. Teaching English in the Two-Year College
  20. Genre Analysis: English in Academic and Research Settings
  21. 10.1017/CBO9781139524827
  22. Rhetoric Review
  23. “Lloyd Bitzer’s ‘Rhetorical Situation’ and the ‘Exigencies’ of Academic Discourse.”