What Can Design Thinking Offer Writing Studies?

Through sharing results of an analysis of design language use in several writing studies journals, this article explores why we invoke design in published scholarship. After defining the approach to composing known as design thinking, it then moves to a comparison of design thinking and the writing...

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Published in:	College composition and communication Vol. 65; no. 4; pp. 612 - 641
Main Author:	Purdy, James P.
Format:	Journal Article
Language:	English
Published:	Urbana National Council of Teachers of English 01-06-2014
Subjects:	Cognition College English College Students Computers Course Content Design Design analysis English Instruction Graphic design Industrial design Interdisciplinary Approach Language Usage Language use Memory expansion boards Multimedia Multimedia Instruction Multimedia Materials Personal computers Product design Program Design Research Design Writing Writing (Composition) Writing assignments Writing Instruction Writing Processes Writing teachers Written communication Written composition
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Summary:	Through sharing results of an analysis of design language use in several writing studies journals, this article explores why we invoke design in published scholarship. After defining the approach to composing known as design thinking, it then moves to a comparison of design thinking and the writing process and looks at an example application of design thinking in the field. I argue that design thinking not only offers a useful approach for tackling multimodal/multimedia composing tasks, but also situates the goal of writing studies as textual action and asks us to reconsider writing's home in the university.
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ISSN:	0010-096X 1939-9006
DOI:	10.58680/ccc201425449