College Composition and Communication Dec 2009

Embracing Wicked Problems: The Turn to Design in Composition Studies

Richard Marback

Abstract

Recent appeal to the concept of design in composition studies benefits teaching writing in digital media. Yet the concept of design has not been developed enough to fully benefit composition instruction. This article develops an understanding of design as a matter of resolving wicked problems and makes a case for the advantages of this understanding in composition studies.

Journal
College Composition and Communication
Published
2009-12-01
DOI
10.58680/ccc20099494
Open Access
Closed
Topics
writing pedagogy digital rhetoric multimodality multilingual writers

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