# Polyphony: Reader and Explorations for First-Year Writing

- By: Jennie Snow - Author / Elise Takehana - Author / Diego Ubiera
- Publisher: ROTEL
- Source: [Open Textbook Library](https://open.umn.edu/opentextbooks/textbooks/polyphony-reader-and-explorations-for-first-year-writing)
- Licence: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike
- Online: https://rotel.pressbooks.pub/polyphonyoerreader/
- eBook: https://rotel.pressbooks.pub/polyphonyoerreader/
- PDF: https://rotel.pressbooks.pub/polyphonyoerreader/

Polyphony is a functional, creative, and radical resource for facilitating critical conversations about multilingualism, the politics of language, and linguistic justice in the first-year writing classroom. Texts and activities explore diverse perspectives on themes like silencing/voicing, language extinction and reclamation, (in)visibility, translation, agency, and validation, among others. Designed for use by both instructors and students, this book is meant to be used in a variety of combinations and highlights multiple modes of writing, including personal narrative, textual analysis, argumentation, reflection, and research. Embracing a “polyphonic” approach to first-year writing, this book presents connections between texts, authors, and ideas that actively engage students and instructors in critical conversations about language, education, and the institutionalization of both.