Pedagogy Apr 2025

Writing in the Wilderness

Claire Lutkewitte

Abstract

Abstract Arts and humanities fields, specifically the field of writing, are well-positioned to help educate people about the lack of diversity in nature and the consequences (both good and bad) of visiting and documenting wilderness locations with writing technologies. Writing faculty can also find creative ways to provide outdoor opportunities to their students and to give them hands-on writing experiences. This field teaches the rhetorical and critical thinking skills necessary for students to understand who and how we write about such places. Writing also teaches students to be successful in analyzing problems and generating solutions for them, which can enable students to make significant and meaningful changes that better protect our environments. Many of the initiatives, programs, and policies that, for instance, conservation agencies and organizations create, are done so through the act of writing. This article, therefore, discusses a course, Writing in the Wilderness, that is designed to show students the impacts that writing can have on their local wilderness spaces. It provides students a range of on-location assignments and activities as well as introduces them to the people that work in and for wilderness spaces.

Journal
Pedagogy
Published
2025-04-01
DOI
10.1215/15314200-11625198
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rhetorical criticism argument race and writing
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