Writing, Imitation, and Performance: Insights from Neuroscience Research

Imitation is a valuable pedagogical approach in Writing Studies, offering writers greater insight and helping them develop a clear writerly identity. It is a form of performance influenced by learning, experience, and role-playing, and can provide students with opportunities to perform habitually as writers, readers, and critical thinkers.

Format: Hardback
Length: 114 pages
Publication date: 02 December 2022
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd

This book reconsiders imitation as a valuable pedagogical approach in Writing Studies, challenging concerns about product-oriented teaching, formulaic writing, paternalistic or elitist pedagogy, and plagiarism. It maintains that the use of imitation can offer writers greater insight and help to develop a clear writerly identity. The author posits that writers often use imitation as a step toward developing new directions, structures, and styles, and that this imitation is indeed a form of performance. The author explores the neuropsychological aspect of imitation to show how it is a valid form of writing instruction. She explains how learning, experience, and role-playing are manifested in the brain and influence one's sense of self and identity.

The book emphasizes that imitation can provide students with opportunities to perform habitually as writers, readers, and critical thinkers, enabling them to develop new understandings and confidence in their ability to improve. It also includes suggestions for classroom application, written by Craig A. Meyer.

This book offers important insights for scholars and teachers of writing and composition, education, and communication studies.

Weight: 390g
Dimension: 216 x 138 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781032051987