Writing Our Bodies
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Sunayani Bhattacharya, Saint Mary’s College of California
Meghan A Sweeney, Saint Mary's College of California
Yin Yuan, Saint Mary’s College of California
Gina Kessler Lee, Saint Mary’s College of California
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Publisher: Saint Mary's College of California
Language: English
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Table of Contents
- Introduction
- Positionality Statements
- Acknowledgments
- Accessibility Statement
- I. Embodied Rhetorics
- II. Writing to Share an Experience
- III. Writing to Rhetorically Analyze
- IV. Writing to Take a Stand
- V. Writing to Revise, Reimagine, and Reflect
- VI. Writing to Rhetorically Analyze Academic Texts
- VII. Writing to Synthesize
- VIII. Writing to Make an Argument with Research
About the Book
Writing Our Bodies offers students a holistic approach to writing that intertwines embodied rhetorics with critical inquiry and academic conventions. Beginning with an introduction to rhetorical embodiment and personal experience, the text guides learners through writing to analyze, take a stand, revise, synthesize sources, and make arguments with research, while attending to how identity, technology, linguistic diversity, and power influence both reading and writing. Emphasizing reflection, audience awareness, disciplinary literacy, and ethical source use, this resource prepares students to write purposefully across contexts and audiences.
Accessibility
The web version of this resource Writing our Bodies has been designed to meet Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 2.0, level AA. In addition, it follows all guidelines in Appendix A: Checklist for Accessibility of the Accessibility Toolkit - 2nd Edition. It includes: Easy navigation. This resource has a linked table of contents and uses hierarchical headings in each chapter to make navigation easy. Accessible theme. This resource is using Pressbooks' Malala theme. Accessible images. All images in this resource that convey information have alternative text and, if needed, linked image descriptions. Accessible links. All links are descriptive, and reference if they open in a new tab. Accessible tables. All tables are used to organize information rather than page layout, include a caption, use correct headers and scope, avoid merged cells, and include cell padding. Accessible interactivity. H5P types are either fully accessible or if inaccessible, an alternative, accessible option is available.
About the Contributors
Authors
Sunayani Bhattacharya is Associate Professor of English at Saint Mary’s College of California. Her research is on emergent media in the Global South where she specializes in book history and radio technology. Her expertise is in manuscript and print text encoding, with an emphasis on Bengali. She also works on digital and sound archiving, exploring ways of organizing material that are ephemeral.
Meghan A. Sweeney is associate professor and director of writing studies at Saint Mary's College of California, where she studies postsecondary literacies and writing program administration. She earned her PhD in Rhetoric and Writing from University of Nevada Reno in 2015. Her work has been published in Research in the Teaching of English, College Composition and Communication, Teaching English in the Two–Year College, Journal of Writing Assessment, Journal of Basic Writing, WPA: Writing Program Administration, and Composition Studies. She is currently working with an inter-institutional research team to uncover inequities in higher education state legislation and is writing an open-access textbook with a team of Saint Mary’s College professors and librarians.
Yin Yuan is a writer, researcher, and educator. She is currently an Associate Professor of English at Saint Mary’s College of California and the co-editor of MENT.
Yin’s work examines the intersections between literature, popular culture, and empire. Her first book, Alimentary Orientalism (Bucknell University Press, 2023), considers how racialized forms of consumption both perpetuated and unraveled British fantasies of the East.
Gina Kessler Lee is the librarian for English, MFA in Creative Writing, and Writing Studies. I also serve as the SMC Library's Head of Teaching and Research Services, coordinating our reference desk, in-class information literacy sessions, and outreach programs.