Process and Post-Process: A Discursive History
Journal of Second Language Writing (2003)
While the term post-process
can be useful as a heuristic for expanding the scope of the field of
second language writing, the uncritical adoption of this and other
keywords can have serious consequences because they often oversimplify
the historical complexity of intellectual developments they describe.
In order to provide a critical understanding of the term post-process
in its own historical context, this article examines the history of
process and post-process in composition studies, focusing on the ways
in which terms such as current-traditional rhetoric, process, and post-process
have contributed to the discursive construction of reality in composition
studies. Based on this analysis, I argue that the use of the term post-process
in the context of L2 writing needs to be guided by a critical awareness
of the discursive construction process. I further argue that the notion
of post-process needs to be understood not as a rejection of process
pedagogies but as a recognition of the multiplicity of L2 writing theories
and pedagogies.
Matsuda, P. K. (2003). Process
and post-process: A discursive history. Journal
of Second Language Writing, 12(1), 65-83.