Writing Our Bodies
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Writing Our Bodies offers students a holistic approach to writing that intertwines embodied rhetorics with critical inquiry and academic conventions. Beginning with an introduction to rhetorical embodiment and personal experience, the text guides learners through writing to analyze, take a stand, revise, synthesize sources, and make arguments with research, while attending to how identity, technology, linguistic diversity, and power influence both reading and writing. Emphasizing reflection, audience awareness, disciplinary literacy, and ethical source use, this resource prepares students to write purposefully across contexts and audiences.
Publication Date
2026
Peer Review Status
Peer-reviewed
Publisher
Loyola Marymount University
Funder
The contents of this book were developed under a grant from the Fund for the Improvement of Postsecondary Education, (FIPSE), U.S. Department of Education. However, those contents do not necessarily represent the policy of the Department of Education, and you should not assume endorsement by the Federal Government. For more information about OER for Social Justice, visit our project website.
Keywords
Writing Our Bodies, Embodied Rhetorics, Writing and Identity, Rhetorical Analysis, Argumentative Writing, Research Writing, Synthesis, Positionality Statements, Multilingualism, Disability Studies, LGBTQ+ Studies, Critical Race Theory, Reflective Writing, Academic Writing, Discourse Communities, Citation Justice, Undergraduate Writing, Pressbooks
Disciplines
Creative Writing
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This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-Share Alike 4.0 International License.
Recommended Citation
Bhattacharya, Sunayani; Kessler Lee, Gina; Sweeney, Meghan A.; and Yuan, Yin, "Writing Our Bodies" (2026). Open Educational Resources for Social Justice Projects. 6.
https://digitalcommons.lmu.edu/oerfsj-projects/6
