There are many parallel epistemological paths that lead to the same ontological understanding of writing.

Here are some leads:

 

Activity Theory

see David Russell's chapter of Reconceiving Writing, Rethinking Writing Instruction titled "Activity Theory and its Implications for Writing" 

 

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi's concept of Flow as an epistemology/lived experience:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Social Justice as an Ontology

see David Coogan's "Service Learning and Social Change: The Case for Materialist Rhetoric"

 

Telling Narratives as a Social Movement

see Marhsall Ganz's projects

 

Creating Personal Rituals to Relate to the World

see The Practice of Everyday Life by Michel de Certau

 

Embodied Rhetorics

see "Making Writing Matter" by Jane Hindman, "Written Through the Body" by William Banks, "Dancing Bodies in the Classroom: Moving toward an Embodied Pedagogy" by Tina Kazan, and Embodied Literacies: Imageword and a Poetics of Teaching by Kristie Fleckenstein

 

De-Centering of the Human Subject

see Bruno Latour's Actor-Network Theory (ANT) and Inquiry into Modes of Existence;

Donna Haraway

 

Ecology of Language in Linguistic Anthropology

for an example of a culture whose language does not divide nature as separate from society, see The Ecology of the Spoken Word: Amazonian Storytelling and Shamanism Among the Napo Runa by Michael Uzendoski and Edith Felicia Calapucha-Tapuy; The Tree of Meaning: Language, Mind and Ecology by Robert Bringhurst

 

Contract Grading 

see the labor-based assesssment theory of Asao Inoue

 

Affect Theory

see Parables for the Virtual: Movement, Affect, Sensation by Brian Massumi; The Transmission of Affect by Teresa Brennan; by Impersonal Passion: Language as Affect by Denise Riley, by The Cultural Politics of Emotion by Sara Ahmed