The Theory and Practice of Imitation in Classical Rhetoric

Corbett, Edward P. J.

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“…Provides models to emulate. When teachers provide students with concrete examples of what successful work looks like, students are likely to perform better (Corbett, 1971), though the effects are relatively small (Graham et al, 2015;Graham & Perin, 2007a;Hillocks, 1984). Provides frequent opportunities for practice.…”

Section: Best Practices Consistent With On-demand Writingmentioning

confidence: 99%

The Challenges of Writing in School: Conceptualizing Writing Development Within a Sociocognitive Framework

Deane

2018

Educational Psychologist

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This article argues for a conceptualization of school writing that emphasizes how cognitive and sociocultural factors interact. In academic, professional, and affinity-based communities, an emphasis on standards of quality drives the adoption of such practices as revision and peer and expert review. In school, everyday writing practices center around demonstrations of knowledge (taking notes, writing summaries, providing personal responses to readings, completing worksheets, etc.) where the teacher is often the sole or primary audience. This context tends to privilege knowledge-telling strategies and prioritize fluency and efficiency of expression. When these sociocultural factors interact with cognition, group differences tend to emerge, as knowledge telling provides few opportunities for disadvantaged groups to overcome barriers linked to differences in prior knowledge, fluency, attention management, or motivation. It also affects the efficacy of instructional practices, because cognitive ability and social identity affect how students internalize the metacognitive concepts and strategies characteristic of expert writers.

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Section: Best Practices Consistent With On-demand Writingmentioning

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The Challenges of Writing in School: Conceptualizing Writing Development Within a Sociocognitive Framework

Deane

2018

Educational Psychologist

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“…Consequently no emphasis on a coherent pedagogy was enacted in this method. If this approach had a theoretical foundation, it was in the classical concept of 'imitation' (Corbett, 1971). Writers became good writers through reading and imitating what they read.…”

Section: 'Write Like That': the Exemplar Approach To Writing Instructionmentioning

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Lessons from Forty Years as a Literacy Educator:

Elmborg

2017

JIL

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This article summarises the author’s evolution as a writing instructor toward a career as a librarian teaching information literacy and finally as a scholar and researcher studying information literacy as an academic subject. Changes in writing pedagogy are explored as they relate to changes in the author’s instructional practices and how they underlie an understanding of information literacy as a form of literacy practice closely related to writing. Questions about the future of information literacy under current management philosophy are presented.

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“…On the other hand, there is the recognition that there is no such thing as wholly original invention, because creative expression often involves modeling, emulating, or learning from work that has come before. In the rhetorical tradition, imitation is recognized as a generative, inventional resource that allows an individual to “take experience apart and put it together in new ways” (Corbett , 250). As the “rhetorical notion of copying, aping, simulating, and emulating models,” Corbett says, imitation was valued because it was not framed as distinct from invention but rather integral to it (, 243).…”

Section: Tension Of Imitationmentioning

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“…In the rhetorical tradition, imitation is recognized as a generative, inventional resource that allows an individual to “take experience apart and put it together in new ways” (Corbett , 250). As the “rhetorical notion of copying, aping, simulating, and emulating models,” Corbett says, imitation was valued because it was not framed as distinct from invention but rather integral to it (, 243). Thus arose the belief “that an artist becomes great by imitating great artists” (Sullivan , 7‐8).…”

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Art Controversy in theObamaWhiteHouse: Performing Tensions of Race in the Visual Politics of the Presidency

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Mixon

2014

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In 2009, two works by African American artists selected for display in the White House produced controversy among critics of the president. Our analysis explores how media discussion involving a Charles Alston bust of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., and an abstract painting by Alma Thomas unearthed cultural tensions involving the practice of imitation, the value of presence, and the role of Black art and artists. Such tensions shaped the debate about the art works chosen by the Obamas and raised the question of how to define and place a Black president in the first year of his first term.

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The Theory and Practice of Imitation in Classical Rhetoric

Cited by 37 publications

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The Challenges of Writing in School: Conceptualizing Writing Development Within a Sociocognitive Framework

The Challenges of Writing in School: Conceptualizing Writing Development Within a Sociocognitive Framework

Lessons from Forty Years as a Literacy Educator:

Art Controversy in theObamaWhiteHouse: Performing Tensions of Race in the Visual Politics of the Presidency

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