Reflection: Activity Theory

This article highlights the issue of WAC versus discipline-specific teaching. The ball-handling analogy is spot on but I wonder if a good analogy makes up for the advantage of learning to write a genre within the context of that genre. Certainly, I am looking for a justification of a comp course (especially if I plan to be teaching comp courses), and the idea of teaching "about writing" is a good direction. Rhetorical approaches to teaching a comp course continues to feel like the right approach. Teach students how to look at a new genre, give them tools and skills, then use as universal of a genre as possible to let them apply those skills (research paper since almost everything will need some sort of research).