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Reading the New Yorker: Serialized Texts and the Performative Present in the Writing Classroom
- Pedagogy
- Duke University Press
- Volume 11, Issue 2, Spring 2011
- pp. 325-348
- Article
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This essay discusses the impact of using serialized reading texts, like magazines, in writing instruction. It explains an advanced expository writing course that uses the New Yorker magazine as a frame for addressing the significance of contemporaneity and performance in student writing. Ultimately, the magazine remediates between traditional readers and new media approaches.