Document Type
Article
Publication Date
2008
Abstract
We discuss how studying and creating zines in our composition classes allows our students to negotiate and explore the complexities of writing without the compulsions of many of the politically problematic commonplaces of composition pedagogy. We use zines to examine the unique ways in which their rhetorical devices address conflicts around questions of audience and diversity, as well as the particular questions that the zines raise about the politics of persuasion, our own writing practices, writing strategies that the zines suggest to us, and the construction of alternative communities.
Recommended Citation
Rallin, Aneil, and Ian Barnard. "The Politics of Persuasion versus the Construction of Alternative Communities: Zines in the Writing Classroom." Reflections 7.3 (2008): 46-57. Web.
Peer Reviewed
1
Copyright
Reflections Journal
Included in
Creative Writing Commons, Curriculum and Instruction Commons, Interdisciplinary Arts and Media Commons, Other Rhetoric and Composition Commons, Reading and Language Commons
Comments
This article was originally published in Reflections, volume 7, issue 3, in 2008.