Contents
Preface
Introduction: Coming to Terms: Composition/Rhetoric, Threshold Concepts, and a Disciplinary Core / Kathleen Blake Yancey
Naming What We Know: The Project of this Book / Linda Adler-Kassner and Elizabeth Wardle
Threshold Concepts of Writing
Metaconcept: Writing Is an Activity and a Subject of Study / Elizabeth Wardle and Linda Adler-Kassner
1.0. Writing Is a Social and Rhetorical Activity / Kevin Roozen
1.1. Writing Is a Knowledge-Making Activity / Heidi Estrem
1.2. Writing Addresses, Invokes, and/or Creates Audiences / Andrea A. Lunsford
1.3. Writing Expresses and Shares Meaning to Be Reconstructed by the Reader / Charles Bazerman
1.4. Words Get Their Meanings from Other Words / Dylan B. Dryer
1.5. Writing Mediates Activity / David R. Russell
1.6. Writing Is Not Natural / Dylan B. Dryer
1.7. Assessing Writing Shapes Contexts and Instruction / Tony Scott and Asao B. Inoue
1.8. Writing Involves Making Ethical Choices / John Duffy
1.9. Writing Is a Technology through Which Writers Create and Recreate Meaning / Collin Brooke and Jeffrey T. Grabill
2.0. Writing Speaks to Situations through Recognizable Forms / Charles Bazerman
2.1. Writing Represents the World, Events, Ideas, and Feelings / Charles Bazerman
2.2. Genres Are Enacted by Writers and Readers / Bill Hart-Davidson
2.3. Writing Is a Way of Enacting Disciplinarity / Neal Lerner
2.4. All Writing Is Multimodal / Cheryl E. Ball and Colin Charlton
2.5. Writing Is Performative / Andrea A. Lunsford
2.6. Texts Get Their Meaning from Other Texts / Kevin Roozen
3.0. Writing Enacts and Creates Identities and Ideologies / Tony Scott
3.1. Writing Is Linked to Identity / Kevin Roozen
3.2. Writers’ Histories, Processes, and Identities Vary / Kathleen Blake Yancey
3.3. Writing Is Informed by Prior Experience / Andrea A. Lunsford
3.4. Disciplinary and Professional Identities Are Constructed through Writing / Heidi Estrem
3.5. Writing Provides a Representation of Ideologies and Identities / Victor Villanueva
4.0. All Writers Have More to Learn / Shirley Rose
4.1. Text Is an Object Outside of Oneself That Can Be Improved and Developed / Charles Bazerman and Howard Tinberg
4.2. Failure Can Be an Important Part of Writing Development / Collin Brooke and Allison Carr
4.3. Learning to Write Effectively Requires Different Kinds of Practice, Time, and Effort / Kathleen Blake Yancey
4.4. Revision Is Central to Developing Writing / Doug Downs
4.5. Assessment Is an Essential Component of Learning to Write / Peggy O’Neill
4.6. Writing Involves the Negotiation of Language Differences / Paul Kei Matsuda
5.0. Writing Is (Also Always) a Cognitive Activity / Dylan B. Dryer
5.1. Writing Is an Expression of Embodied Cognition / Charles Bazerman and Howard Tinberg
5.2. Metacognition Is Not Cognition / Howard Tinberg
5.3. Habituated Practice Can Lead to Entrenchment / Chris M. Anson
5.4. Reflection Is Critical for Writers’ Development / Kara Taczak
Index