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In this text, I would like to consider how this remapping might alter the way we conceptualize and enact first-year writing at the university level. Most importantly, an affiliation to CHAT moves me away from a focus on the individual rhetor, or the rhetor-as-actor in a socially constructed environment, and toward a focus on the complex set of interlocking systems within which rhetors are formed, act, and navigate. I play throughout this webtext with a genre of children's books, the big book, in part because such books represent an expansive, multimodal introduction to literature. As we flip through the pages of my "Big Book of Literate Activity," I also represent a "big text" perspective on first-year writing -- one that not only uses diverse materials and moves beyond the print page, but that also offers students the opportunity to follow the complex trajectories of texts through a process of rigorous research and investigation. |
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