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Brooke & McIntosh, "Deep Maps: Teaching Rhetorical Engagement through Place-Conscious Education"
Discipline/Field: Composition, Writing Studies
Year: 2007
Keywords:
composition, pedagogy, geographyMain Arguments & Concepts
Deep MapsCreating deep maps in a writing class (literally asking students to draw out a place based on their perception) is useful in terms of invention, opening up questions of place/location, prompting students to connect to community. Also, the practice steps aside from top-down practices of place-making; students make spaces/places.
Quotes
“In asking students to compose with deep maps, to represent their personal locations to themselves, to find the civic issues that energize their lives in those locations, and to wrestle with the shape of their representations themselves, we are unabashedly asking students to begin to think ... of what constitutes ‘home ground’ and how they mean to live there” (147).“Rhetorical action comes as much from the choice of where to locate one’s arguments and emotional appeals as it does from the choice of who to address and what to argue for” (147).
Notes
- In Locations of Composition, chapter 7.
- Felt Mountain!
