Writing about Writing

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About this Book Cover Page Inside Front Cover Title Page Copyright Page Contents Preface for Instructors How Writing about Writing Supports WPA Outcomes for First-Year Composition About the Authors Part 1 Exploring Threshold Concepts of Writing through Inquiry Chapter 1 Investigating Writing: Threshold Concepts and Transfer Why Study Writing? Two Stories About Writing Conceptions: With Our Thoughts we Make the World Threshold Concepts of Writing Meta-Concept: Writing is not Just Something People do, but Something People Study Through Inquiry Threshold Concept: Writing is a Process, and all Writers Have More to Learn (Chapter 4: Composing) Threshold Concept: Writing is Impacted by Identities and Prior Experiences (Chapter 5: Literacies) Threshold Concept: “Good” Writing is Contextual (Chapter 6: Rhetoric) Threshold Concept: People Collaborate to Get things Done with Writing (Chapter 7: Communities) Transfer: Applying Learning to New Writing Situations “Near” and “Far” Transfer Practicing Reflection to Aid Transfer Sources that Informed Chapter 1 Reflecting on the Ideas of Chapter 1 Questions for Discussion and Journaling Applying and Exploring Ideas Major Writing Assignments: Writing about Threshold Concepts Chapter 2 Readers, Writers, and Texts: Understanding Genre and Rhetorical Reading Reading and Writing for Conversational Inquiry Genres and How Writers and Readers Depend on Them What Genres Are Genres as Flexible Maps Sets and Systems: How Genres Circulate and Respond to Other Genres Features of the Scholarly Research Article Genre Rhetorical Reading: The Reader’s Role in Conversational Inquiry Two Stories About Reading Elements of Rhetorical Reading Sources that Informed Chapter 2 Reflecting on the Ideas of Chapter 2 Questions for Discussion and Journaling Applying and Exploring Ideas Major Writing Assignment: Genre Analysis Chapter 3 Participating in Conversational Inquiry about Writing Walking into the Party What Can a Student Contribute? Open Questions, Accessible Methods Formulating a Research Question Finding Existing Conversations Using Databases and Search Engines Creating a Research Space (CARS) Seeking Answers by Gathering Data Analyzing Your Data Conducting Research Ethically Telling Your Story: Sharing Your Research Being Peer-Reviewed and Managing Feedback Conversational Inquiry is Collaborative Sources that Informed Chapter 3 Reflecting on the Ideas of Chapter 3 Questions for Discussion and Journaling Applying and Exploring Ideas Major Writing Assignments: Participating in Conversational Inquiry Part 2 Joining Conversations about Writing Chapter 4 Composing: Threshold Concept: Writing Is a Process, and All Writers Have More to Learn Shitty First Drafts Framing the Reading Getting Ready to Read Questions for Discussion and Journaling Applying and Exploring Ideas The Composing Processes of Unskilled College Writers Framing the Reading Getting Ready to Read Questions for Discussion and Journaling Applying and Exploring Ideas Decisions and Revisions: The Planning Strategies of a Publishing Writer Response of a Laboratory Rat — or, Being Protocoled Framing the Readings Getting Ready to Read Questions for Discussion and Journaling Applying and Exploring Ideas Revision Strategies of Student Writers and Experienced Adult Writers Framing the Reading Getting Ready to Read Questions for Discussion and Journaling Applying and Exploring Ideas Rigid Rules, Inflexible Plans, and the Stifling of Language: A Cognitivist Analysis of Writer’s Block Framing the Reading Getting Ready to Read Questions for Discussion and Journaling Applying and Exploring Ideas A Bag Full of Snakes: Negotiating the Challenges of Multimodal Composition Framing the Reading Getting Ready to Read Questions for Discussion and Journaling Applying and Exploring Ideas Did I Create the Process? Or Did the Process Create Me? Framing the Reading Getting Ready to Read Questions for Discussion and Journaling Applying and Exploring Ideas Responding — Really Responding — to Other Students’ Writing Framing the Reading Getting Ready to Read Questions for Discussion and Journaling Applying and Exploring Ideas Major Writing Assignments: Writing about Processes Chapter 5 Literacies: Threshold Concept: Writing Is Impacted by Identities and Prior Experiences Sponsors of Literacy Framing the Reading Getting Ready to Read Questions for Discussion and Journaling Applying and Exploring Ideas Only Daughter Framing the Reading Getting Ready to Read Questions for Discussion and Journaling Applying and Exploring Ideas Excerpt from Bootstraps: From an American Academic of Color Framing the Reading Getting Ready to Read Questions for Discussion and Journaling Applying and Exploring Ideas Challenging Our Labels: Rejecting the Language of Remediation Framing the Reading Getting Ready to Read Questions for Discussion and Journaling Applying and Exploring Ideas The Phenomenology of Error Framing the Reading Getting Ready to Read Questions for Discussion and Journaling Applying and Exploring Ideas Should Writers Use They Own English? Framing the Reading Getting Ready to Read Questions for Discussion and Journaling Applying and Exploring Ideas From Outside, In Framing the Reading Getting Ready to Read Questions for Discussion and Journaling Applying and Exploring Ideas Chinks in My Armor: Reclaiming One’s Voice Framing the Reading Getting Ready to Read Questions for Discussion and Journaling Applying and Exploring Ideas Major Writing Assignments: Writing about Literacies Chapter 6 Rhetoric: Threshold Concept: “Good” Writing Is Contextual Rhetoric: Making Sense of Human Interaction and Meaning-Making Framing the Reading Getting Ready to Read Questions for Discussion and Journaling Applying and Exploring Ideas Rhetorical Situations and Their Constituents Framing the Reading Getting Ready to Read Questions for Discussion and Journaling Applying and Exploring Ideas Intertextuality and the Discourse Community Framing the Reading Getting Ready to Read Questions for Discussion and Journaling Applying and Exploring Ideas Rhetorical Reading Strategies and the Construction of Meaning Framing the Reading Getting Ready to Read Questions for Discussion and Journaling Applying and Exploring Ideas Helping Students Use Textual Sources Persuasively Framing the Reading Getting Ready to Read Questions for Discussion and Journaling Applying and Exploring Ideas All Writing Is Autobiography Framing the Reading Getting Ready to Read Questions for Discussion and Journaling Applying and Exploring Ideas The Value of Rhetorical Analysis Outside Academia Framing the Reading Getting Ready to Read Questions for Discussion and Journaling Applying and Exploring Ideas Major Writing Assignments Chapter 7 Communities: Threshold Concept: People Collaborate to Get Things Done with Writing Literacy, Discourse, and Linguistics Framing the Reading Getting Ready to Read Questions for Discussion and Journaling Applying and Exploring Ideas Learning to Serve Framing the Reading Getting Ready to Read Questions for Discussion and Journaling Applying and Exploring Ideas Reflections on the Concept of Discourse Community Framing the Reading Getting Ready to Read Questions for Discussion and Journaling Applying and Exploring Ideas Discourse Communities and Communities of Practice Framing the Reading Getting Ready to Read Questions for Discussion and Journaling Applying and Exploring Ideas Learning the Language Framing the Reading Getting Ready to Read Questions for Discussion and Journaling Applying and Exploring Ideas A Stranger in Strange Lands Framing the Reading Getting Ready to Read Questions for Discussion and Journaling Applying and Exploring Ideas Coaches Can Read, Too Framing the Reading Getting Ready to Read Questions for Discussion and Journaling Applying and Exploring Ideas Identity, Authority, and Learning to Write in New Workplaces Framing the Reading Getting Ready to Read Questions for Discussion and Journaling Applying and Exploring Ideas Galaxy-Wide Writing Strategies Used by Official Star Wars Bloggers Framing the Reading Getting Ready to Read Questions for Discussion and Journaling Applying and Exploring Ideas Major Writing Assignments Notes Glossary Acknowledgments Index Inside Back Cover Back Cover