College Composition and Communication Feb 2020

Using Design Thinking to Teach Creative Problem Solving in Writing Courses

Scott Wible

Abstract

Integrating design thinking methodology into writing courses can help students to develop creative approaches to problem definition and solution development. Tracing how students work with and through written genres common to design thinking reveals the possibilities and potential of learning new patterns of inquiry and argumentation. Developing these creative habits of mind empowers students to explore and invent solutions to complex, multidimensional problems across the broad range of their disciplinary, professional, and civic lives.

Journal
College Composition and Communication
Published
2020-02-01
DOI
10.58680/ccc202030501
Open Access
Closed
Topics
multimodality argument

Citation Context

Cited by in this index (7)

  1. Anders et al. (2023)
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  2. Colby (2023)
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    Technical Communication Quarterly
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    Journal of Technical Writing and Communication
  4. Tham et al. (2022)
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    Journal of Technical Writing and Communication
  5. Butler et al. (2021)
    Sound, captions, action: Voices in video composition projects
    Computers and Composition
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  1. Tham (2021)
    Engaging Design Thinking and Making in Technical and Professional Communication…
    Technical Communication Quarterly
  2. Weedon et al. (2021)
    Embodied Genres, Typified Performances, and the Engineering Design Process
    Written Communication

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    College Composition and Communication
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    Design Thinking and the Wicked Problem of Teaching Writing
    Computers and Composition
  3. Purdy (2014)
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    College Composition and Communication
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Also cites 3 works outside this index ↓
  1. Bawarshi (2003)
    Genre and the Invention of the Writer
     ↗
  2. Flower (1980)
    “The Cognition of Discovery: Defining a Rhetorical Problem.”
    College Composition and Communication  ↗
  3. Prior (2009)
    “From Speech Genres to Mediated Multimodal Genre Systems: Bakhtin, Voloshinov, and the Qu…
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