Try a Good Interactive Story
Months ago, I wrote a post for Purposeful Prose that contained an excerpt from the video game, Braid. I made the point that, in reading...
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Aug 26, 20217 min read
The Importance of Making Meaning
Most post-process theorists have their own respective journeys and experiences on both the process movement and how post-process theory...
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Aug 12, 20216 min read
Revision Matters - Part 2
In the first part of this response to Nancy DeJoy's "I Was a Process Model Baby," I introduced the idea that the way discourse is often...
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Jul 29, 20217 min read
Revision Matters - Part 1
It's not uncommon to consider specific writers to be masters of their craft. Many of them might agree that they have achieved mastery....
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Jul 15, 20216 min read
The Audacity of Difference
Many thanks to all of those who participated in last week's more interactive piece and gave me feedback as to its effectiveness. This...
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Jul 1, 20216 min read
Power in Practice
In past posts on post-process theory, it has been solidified that agency and power are key factors in how people conceptualize writing...
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Jun 17, 20215 min read
Demystifying Interactions With Writing
Discourse always has to come from somewhere. Thus, it is always dependent on some form of authority. It's valid to believe that the...
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Jun 3, 20216 min read
The Utility of Genre
Thank you to all of those who read and engaged with my interview with professional comedy writer and story narrator, MoonHorse (name has...
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May 20, 20216 min read
The Power of Genre
A big thank you to all of those who read the first part of my interview last week. The rest of that interview will be posted next week....
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May 6, 20216 min read
Communication and Social Change
Communication theory and research provides an excellent complement to post-process theory as it is known. If you have been following this...
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Apr 29, 20216 min read
Writing and the Social Sciences
Disclaimer: In this essay, the author uses the term, "social scientism," but I do not believe that he is using the term critically...
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Apr 15, 20216 min read
Taking Agency in Writing
Thus far, as I have been reading post-process theorists, each has personally acknowledged the revolutionary nature of process theory,...
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Apr 8, 20216 min read
The Best Possible Means of Persuasion?
Post-process theorist George Pullman in his essay entitled, "Stepping Yet Again into the Same Current," sets up a rhetorical narrative on...
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Apr 1, 20215 min read
Reinventing Writing: Is Assertiveness Always the Answer?
In my last post, "Are We Limitless," I described post-process theory according to Thomas Kent and some of the methods by which...
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Mar 25, 20215 min read
Are We Limitless? : An Introduction to Post-Process Theory
Many writers, if not all, find themselves in a frustrating place where their method of expression is limited to the language in which...
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