Description: A critical history of experimental writing theory, its aesthetic foundations, and their application to current multimodal writing. Patricia Sullivan sheds new light on both the positive and negative aspects of experimental writing and its attempts to redefine the writing disciplines. She further articulates the ways that multimedia is and isn't changing composition pedagogies, and provides insights into resolving these tensions.
Review Quotes: In Experimental Writing in Composition, Sullivan creates a new framework for current discussions about multimedia writing by examining composition studies within the context of experimental writing. In doing so, Sullivan presents an innovative way of understanding the history of new trends in the field. This book not only revises what we think we know about our theories and practices, it offers us new methods for reading our pasts and composing our futures.-- "Nancy C. DeJoy, Michigan State University"