(in that order)

.......invention,arrangement,style,memory, delivery.......

i tried teaching process... and i enjoyed it at first..... there is something really satisfying about having formulas to teach...... content passed from me to the students and i could be sure of that..... as far as use-value, well, use-value is a phantom anyway, right?

......anyway.... if you are Henry Ford, then teaching process makes a lot of sense.... all of the Model-T's are produced in exactly the same way, and if a lot of people are going to work together to make one thing over and over again ( metastasis ), they need to know their place in the process.....

.......but WAIT, you say, process pedagogy is about recognizing that everyone is different, that we all write differently!  but WAIT, you say, Flower said that the writing process is not linear, but recursive.  YES, BUT, i warn you against accepting her conclusions without examining her assumptions.  check out what KAMEEN had to say in Pre/Text so long ago about the assumptions that determined Flower's use of the process-product binary.

........how closely related are industry and composition pedagogy? is it necessary that we import the model of production to rhetoric, just because in writing something does get created?

..........i don't think so. if we were so concerned that students produce the same again and again, we wouldn't be so concerned about plagiarism.....

.........the best way to prevent plagiarism is to invite students to steal creatively, to alter what they thieve, and come up with something old and new. nothing prevents them from telling where they stole it from: i have described good academic work.......

.........we don't always feel like writing when we have to. but good writers find a way to feed upon the activity, even when they would rather be playing guitar, or basketball, or watching M*A*S*H reruns or anime.......

.......it can be fun talking about our different writing habits, but they don't really matter to anyone else but the one writer....... the teacher can't tell a student they should really write their first draft with pen and paper because xyzwhatever...... or s/he can, but that's stupid...... i have to admit i have suggested very strongly to students that they write beginning to finish on the computer, and even though they have free access to computers on campus, they are very resistant........ they know how they can write.....  they have written since they were toddlers.... on the walls, on the floor, everywhere....  they have lived in language, mythical discourses of play, always.....  what they need is to be affirmed in that relationship to language....

.......the problem is usually that students don't care about what they are writing about.... they can't feed upon a stale activity...... demand that your students find something they want to write about..... place as few restrictions on that as possible...... blur the distinction between consumption and writing...... what they already like is a worthy subject...... they just have to find something interesting to say about it..... the hard part...... but when students realize their normal criticism of writing classes no longer applies..... and that they are allowed to write about what they want..... the fear of having nothing to say, even about THEIR stuff, will provide more motivation then any grade.....

.......the pop culture most of them will want to write about IS important. the economy revolves around television, sports, advertisements, music, drugs, pop religion..... whichever comp camp you find yourself in, Expressionist (students find themselves personally) or Social Epistemic (students find their place in the polis or political-social sphere), that subject matter can be written about with great "use," in every sense of the word......

.......instead of teaching the writing process in the production model, consumptive pedagogy talks about reception, more specifically the connection between reading and writing. writing is a mysterious and aesthetic mode of textual consumption, not an obscene industrial process.

thank you to AYSE for the drawings!