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      Theory and Practice of Mindfulness for Writing

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      Theory and Practice of Mindfulness for Writing
      ByAlexandria Peary
      Edition 1st Edition
      First Published 2018
      eBook Published 14 June 2018
      Pub. Location New York
      Imprint Routledge
      DOI https://doi.org/10.4324/9781351027663
      Pages 202
      eBook ISBN 9781351027663
      Subjects Communication Studies
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      Peary, A. (2018). Prolific Moment: Theory and Practice of Mindfulness for Writing (1st ed.). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781351027663

      ABSTRACT

      Prolific Moment: Theory and Practice of Mindfulness for Writing foregrounds the present in all activities of composing, offering a new perspective on the rhetorical situation and the writing process. A focus on the present casts light on standard writing components—audience, invention, and revision—while bringing forth often overlooked nuances of the writing experience—intrapersonal rhetoric, the preverbal, and preconception. This pedagogy of mindful writing can alleviate the suffering of writing blocks that comes from mindless, future-oriented rhetorics. Much is lost with a misplaced present moment because students forfeit rewarding writing experiences for stress, frustration, boredom, fear, and shortchanged invention. Writing becomes a very different experience if students think of it more consistently as part of a discrete now. Peary examines mindfulness as a metacognitive practice and turns to foundational Buddhist concepts of no-self, emptiness, impermanence, and detachment for methods for observing the moment in the writing classroom. This volume is a fantastic resource for future and current instructors and scholars of composition, rhetoric, and writing studies.  

      TABLE OF CONTENTS

      chapter |23 pages

      Introduction

      chapter 1|29 pages

      Present Moment, Writing Moment

      chapter 2|32 pages

      The Monkey Mind of Intrapersonal Rhetoric

      chapter 3|32 pages

      The Verbal Emptiness of Mindful Invention

      chapter 4|26 pages

      Mind Waves, Mind Weeds, Preconceptions

      chapter 5|26 pages

      Their Ability to Write Is Always Present

      A Disciplinary Context for Mindfulness
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