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	Performative writing - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Performative writing is a form of post-modernist or avant-garde academic writing, usually taking as its subject a work of visual art or performance art.
		It is said to more accurately reflect the fleeting and ephemeral nature of a performance, and the various tricks of memory and referentiality that happen in the mind of the viewer during and after the performance.
		Performative writing is sometimes referred to by the alternative name of 'creative critical writing' - which is not to be confused with straightforward creative writing.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Performative_writing (422 words)

	Biblical Intertextuality: Criticism, Commentary and Interpretation
		Therefore, the writing of herself as a mother was a revolutionary act for former slave Harriet Jacobs.
		Yet Jacobs' performances of motherhood, though written to appeal to the sympathies of white women readers, violate her readers' expectations of motherly conduct: she conceives her children out of wedlock, at times wishes her children dead, tolerates her children's imprisonment, and abandons her children during a seven-year-long self-imprisonment.
		This paper considers performances of authority by two often intersecting populations -- twentieth-century scientists and their literary critics – as they have weighed in on the question of race as a social or biological construction over the past ninety years.
	www.uiowa.edu /~mmla/abstracts2004/performativecultures.htm (547 words)

	TEXT Vol 7 No 2 Sabrina Achilles
		Writes Kress, 'beyond that it requires the orchestration and remaking of these resources in the service of frameworks and models that express the maker's intentions in shaping the social and cultural environment' (77).
		Writes Bolter: 'Writing is always spatial, and each technology in the history of writing...has presented writers and readers with a different space to exploit' (Bolter 1991: 105).
		Writes Deleuze, with deterritorialised language it is not a matter of interpreting, '(t)here's nothing to understand, nothing to interpret' (Deleuze and Parnet 1987: 4).
	www.gu.edu.au /school/art/text/oct03/achilles.htm (2754 words)

	Developing a Tool For Assessing Writing
		A performative scoring tool is discussed as appropriate for the study given the location of students in a developmental education curriculum, the purpose of measuring improvement in student writing products, and the current state of scholarship in writing assessment.
		Since any study of writing involves taking writers in a particular situation, and ours was the situation of an actual classroom and course, we attempted to devise an assessment instrument that would acknowledge the fact of students working in the messy conditions of carrying out actual assignments.
		Performative scoring would take into account this particular concern that we judged to be important for writers at this level of their college careers.
	www.higher-ed.org /AEQ/mop98spr01.htm (3562 words)

	Acts of Transfer, by Diana Taylor
		Performances function as vital acts of transfer, transmitting social knowledge, memory, and a sense of identity through reiterated, or what Richard Schechner has called "twice-behaved behavior." "Performance," on one level, constitutes the object of analysis in performance studies-i.e., the many practices and events-dance, theatre, ritual, political rallies, funerals-that involve theatrical, rehearsed, or conventional/event-appropriate behaviors.
		Writing now assured that Power, with a capital 'P' as Rama puts it, could be developed and enforced without the input of the great majority of the population, the indigenous and marginal populations of the colonial period without access to systematic writing.
		Performance belongs to the strong as well as the weak; it underwrites de Certeau's 'strategies' as well as 'tactics,' Bahktin's 'banquet' as well as 'carnival.' The modes of storing and transmitting knowledge are many and mixed and embodied performances have often contributed to the maintenance of a repressive social order.
	www.nyu.edu /classes/bkg/methods/archive-repertoire.html (15405 words)

	Performing Confession
		While some scholars question performance (and other modes of scholarship) that find a basis in epistemologies of the personal, I want to suggest that it is precisely this kind of work that provides the opportunity for effective social commentary and action.
		The desire to conduct performative writing as a way of doing this scholarship is based in the desire to craft words in such a way as to more fully articulate that kind of knowing (see Goodall, Pelias "Performative").
		Confessional performance and writing is inherently personal--it is a statement of positionality that attempts to locate oneself within a larger world view.
	www.cas.usf.edu /~mchvasta/luckydip/performingconfession.htm (7212 words)

	Writing Performance
		Writing Performance is not as nuanced as other such texts, the book is vital on at least two accounts: its manifestation of the author’s home institution, and its inherent tribute to the author himself.
		Writing Performance is an archival citation of that consistency, and the author, who has played a crucial role in the ongoing legacy of Southern Illinois University, speaks well through the text.
		Writing Performance is not about the author; this is a text about an approach toward the feeling body, possibly even the soul of an idea, not an individual.
	www.natcom.org /ROC/one-one/corey.htm (1087 words)

	"Coming to Our Senses: Communication and Legal Expression in Performance Cultures" - Professor Bernard Hibbitts
		Writings moreover tend to be read aloud in performative legal proceedings, not merely for the convenience of the many illiterates who may be present, but also for the convenience of literates still living in an aurally oriented society.
		Members of writing cultures are nonetheless likely to demean them as not being carriers of serious information, and individuals in such societies may even constrain their use in conversation.
		In the absence or social insignificance of writing, its visual messages are primarily passed in gesture and ceremony.
	www.law.pitt.edu /hibbitts/ctos_ii1.htm (7098 words)

	Reconstruction 5.1 (Winter 2005)
		Insofar as this kind of writing, however, still takes for granted that there is an audience, and hence purports some ideology, it would have to subscribe to a genre which is thus in a constant mode of being renegotiated, especially in the sense of laying old values to rest.
		More contemporary writers have expressed a similar concern with writing which addresses genre as a question of writing, with writing designating a specific topos from which the audience, while excluded from making pronouncements on the kind of writing at hand, is brought in a state of 'attendance'.
		When genre is performative, when it construes itself as a graveyard for the writing which is done for no one, it defines the text as a space of imagery on which a final statement is made as a description of what limits and conditions the text in question.
	reconstruction.eserver.org /051/elias.shtml (6355 words)

	Using writing to promote learning
		"What students are asked to do across the curriculum is what I would call 'performative writing': writing to demonstrate what knowledge you've acquired when you've performed your lab experiment, your research, your note-taking in class, your reading of the textbook," said James Seitz, director of composition in Pitt's English department.
		Performative writing is both useful and necessary, Seitz acknowledges.
		On the other hand, performative writing overshadows what Seitz calls inquiry writing, that is, writing as a process in which "you come to know what you know during the course of writing it down," he said.
	www.pitt.edu /utimes/issues/35/021121/13.html (653 words)

	3rd International Congress of Qualitative Inquiry
		Applications for the award will be judged by the following criteria: clarity of writing; willingness to experiment with new and traditional writing forms; advocacy, promotion, development, and use of qualitative research methodologies and practices in new fields of study, and in policy arenas involving issues of social justice.
		Her teaching centers on myth and popular culture- performance ethnography- performance of literature for social change- and the political economy of performance.
		She is Director of a performance based research centre - the Centre for Research into Sustainable Health Care, and also has held the university portfolio of Director of early career development with responsibility for post doctoral development at the University of South Australia.
	www.qi2007.org (1383 words)

	project02 :: writing with video (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		For example, rather than write “she looked sad,” you might write something like, “… she kept her head tilted down, she twisted her hands in her lap.
		Re-read the description you previously wrote, or write a new essay.
		Next, storyboard and write down a list of shots to capture the scene and evoke the emotional response you attach to the experience.
	www.art.uiuc.edu /courses/art199-wv/project02.htm (248 words)

	Story number 49 for infallible.org
		While I write my history of Ana Mendieta she is always writing me?I have learned from her that to write history is to mark the body of the other but that is also to be marked by one's subject.
		Anecdotal critical writing is a mode to provoke a rupture in the isolation of theory.
		Performative subjectivities often begin small?in the desire to speak frankly, directly to a reader, implying a reader's presence in the evident anticipation of a reply.
	www.infallible.org.uk /cgi-bin/showmsg.pl?msgid=49 (4678 words)

	NFLRC NetWorks: FREE Instructional Materials and Resources
		Performative assessments involve examinees in writing in response to a particular task that necessitates a specific type of writing (e.g., persuasion).
		This kind of performative assessment serves as an effective diagnostic tool, especially in program situations where certain types of writing are emphasized and identifiable.
		Performative assessments should generally focus on the written representation of content and meaning, but analytic scales can be used where specific points (of grammatical accuracy, for example) need to be assessed.
	nflrc.hawaii.edu /NetWorks/NW04/A_B.html (1649 words)

	Performative Verbs: Interesting Thing of the Day
		In a sociolinguistics class years ago, each of the students had to complete a major project on the topic of their choice, and the professor met with each of us to discuss what sorts of things we were thinking of researching.
		Performatives sound a bit mystical at first, like a spell or incantation.
		One of the consequences of this peculiarity is that unlike regular declaratives, performatives cannot be evaluated for truth or falseness.
	itotd.com /articles/419/performative-verbs (839 words)

	Intro to "Life is a Masquerade" - Monique Giard
		The main reason for ideological discourse being privileged over social and performative discourses is the accusation of lack of clarity and lack of purposes.
		A mental or physical illness is the result of an imbalance in the system, which could be caused by a lack of meaning in one’s life.
		Meaning and healing happened as I allowed myself to be with strong feelings of loss and body memories of sexual abuse while releasing mentally and spiritually the source of the hurt common both to my sister and myself.
	www.taiga.net /eecom2001/papers/giard_intro.htm (1874 words)

	Department of English -- Course Descriptions
		The course is designed not only to help you write effectively in a professional business environment, but also to improve your general ability to research and analyze ideas, to appreciate and develop the skill of visual rhetoric, and to write clear, grammatical, well-structured communications that will impart clear, concise meaning to your audience.
		Building on the skills you gained in past writing courses, this class explores specific everyday professional writing tasks that you are most likely to encounter and to develop strategies through in-class lectures, exercises, and individual writing assignments.
		Writing by authors born somewhere other than Britain now constitutes almost fifty percent of the material in the twentieth-century volume of the Norton Anthology of English Literature.
	www.csun.edu /~hfeng005/coursedescriptions/coursedescS05.htm (7055 words)

	Performative utterance - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The particular verbs used in performative utterances tend to be verba dicendi—verbs of speaking—or "metapragmatic verbs," verbs that draw attention to a particular relation between the utterance or speech form and context.
		As Sedgwick observes, performative utterances can be revoked, either by the person who uttered them ("I take back my promise"), or by some other party not immediately involved, like the state (for example, gay marriage vows).
		The above ideas have influenced performative writing; they are used as a justification for an attempt to create a new form of critical writing about performance (often about performance art).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Performative_utterance (1590 words)

	A Collage of Citations » after current comp theory thoughts
		What Andrea Lunsford said Saturday at the conference was key: There is a continuum, and on one said, you are writing, and on the other side, you are being written.
		When I sit down and write an “academic” paper where there is supposed to be no “personal” voice, my voices fight each other, finding ways to each one get a word in here, a word in there.
		It is juggling all these performativities(?) that I can get the words on the page in a way that might satisfy me (and the professor).
	oregonstate.edu /~farism/blog/?p=141 (630 words)

	Street Literacy and Performative Writing
		This paper presents an ethnography of "street literacy" and graffiti writing practiced by Chicago street gangs.
		Graffiti writing articulates cross-class antagonisms by bodily contact with, touching, public space and private property.
		The paper describes and explains the signifying conventions, modes of representation, and scenes of enactment in light of mainstream campaigns to eradicate this criminalized practice.
	ideas.repec.org /p/wop/nwuipr/96-6.html (226 words)

	Reading guide to selections from
		Proust reconceptualised his life after or during writing in order to make it a 'work for which his own book is the model' (Barthes 1977:144).
		As a result, conventional literary criticism, designed to uncover the 'real' meanings of novels, expressed by 'real' authors, is also abolished and that's good, because, in its arrogance, such criticism used to ignore the reader and also selectively overlook the 'phatic' bits of texts (designed to involve the reader).
		We see here one of the ways in which Barthes is shifting to a radical kind of textuality, then, one which 'goes all the way down' as Norris (1992) puts it, and one where Barthes, like Lyotard heads into a denial of any other criteria by which to judge events or accounts of them.
	www.arasite.org /barthes.htm (1877 words)

	Writing and the Digital Life: Toni Sant
		WDL is a collaborative transdisciplinary blog about the impact of digital technologies upon writing and lived experience.
		We talk about writing and reading in the context of 'new and old' media, transliteracy, craft, art, process and practice, social networks, cooperation and collaboration, narrative and memory, human computer interaction, imagination, nature, mind, body, and spirit.
		However, I am also very interested in something called performative writing; a strange beast that is equally related to both performance theory and language theory.
	writing.typepad.com /digital_life/2005/09/toni_sant.html (476 words)

	a1
		Foster’s lecture, “Choreographies of Writing,” concerned performative writing, a term rooted in linguistic philosophy, which refers to a new way of approaching the tricky terrain of writing about performance.
		Foster believes that the common perception of dance and writing as opposite art forms causes writers to doubt that a dance performance can be captured on paper.
		According to Foster, traditional dance criticism is governed by a hierarchy which associates dance with the physical, the feminine, and the ephemeral, all of which are subordinated to writing, the mind, the masculine, and the durable.
	www.wesleyan.edu /argus/archives/feb062004/dateyear/a3.html (647 words)

	Curriculum Vita for Kurt Lindemann (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		performance of masculinity as organizational culture in wheelchair rugby.
		performative writing in the exploration of Goffman’s associative stigma.
		Course focused on designing writing activities that enhance students’ active engagement with course material and help students use writing for critical thinking.
	www.public.asu.edu /~lindeman/curriculum_vita_for_kurt_lindema.htm (1084 words)

	Performing Hybridity (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Rather than creating new genres or styles that might seem to reflect a hybrid aesthetic, the contributors use familiar forms such as the theoretical essay, poem, photo essay, and case study.
		They examine historically specific cases in which the notion of hybridity recasts our ideas of identity and performance: the struggle for Aboriginal land rights in Australia, Bahian carnival, the creolization and pidginization of language in the Caribbean world, queer videos, and others.
		May Joseph is assistant professor of performance studies at New York University.
	www.upress.umn.edu /Books/j/jones_performing.html (229 words)

	REIMAGINE TEXT \| 2005 \| EGSA \| Mardi Gras Conference
		From Logos “the word” to Logo “the icon,” the situation that English Studies finds itself in at the beginning of the 21st century is one of mixed cultures, integrated technologies, and hybrid writing styles.
		Visual rhetoric is vying for the same status as textual rhetoric, and scientists, educators, and artists continue to utilize a postmodern idea of fragmentation to redefine the stark binaries and boundaries of literacy from critical/personal to art/science to left brain/right brain.
		performative writing and the conference paper; performing the conference paper
	english.lsu.edu /dept/orgs/egsa/BillConferencePage.html (339 words)

	writingbib
		Writing Culture: The Poetics and Politics of Ethnography.
		"Performative Writing" in The Ends of Performance, edited by P. Phelan and J. Lane.
		Shapiro, Michael J. The Politics of Representation: Writing Practices in Biography, Photography, and Policy Analysis.
	www.ucalgary.ca /~cancomm/writingbib.html (179 words)

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