Contents
Preface
Introduction / Barbara Bird, Doug Downs, I. Moriah McCracken, and Jan Rieman
1. Writing about Writing: A History / Barbara Bird, Doug Downs, I. Moriah McCracken, and Jan Rieman
Part I : Writerly Identities
2. Threshold Concepts as a Foundation for “Writing about Writing” Pedagogies / Elizabeth Wardle and Linda Adler-Kassner
3. Writing about Writing in the Disciplines in First-Year Composition / Rebecca Robinson
4. Student Voice: Reflections on Our Freshman Writing Course / Emma Gaier and Megan Wallace
5. (Dis)Positioning Writing Confidence, Reflecting on Writer Identity: A Writing about Writing Curriculum Aimed at Knowledge Transfer / Lisa Tremain
6. Student Voice: Writing about Writing: Leading to New Perspectives / Hiroki Sugimoto
7. Vignette: WAW-Professional Writing for STEM Co-op Students / Joy Arbor
8. “I Am Seen; I Am My Culture; and I Can Write”: How WAW Returns Multilingual Learners to Voice, Building Self-Efficacy and Rhetorical Flexibility / Christina Grant
9. Vignette: El Ensayo: Latinxs Writing about Writing / Nancy Wilson, Rebecca Jackson, and Valerie Vera
10. Vignette: “Writing Is Like Shaping a Bonsai Tree”: Writing about Writing and Culture in a Developmental Composition Course / Gwen Hart
11. Why I Keep Teaching Writing about Writing in Qatar: Expanding Literacies, Developing Metacognition, and Learning for Transfer / Mysti Rudd
12. Next Steps, or Rather, One Step at a Time: A How-To Guide for Implementing Writing about Writing / Kristen di Gennaro
13. Developing a Writing about Writing Curriculum / Cat Mahaffey and Jan Rieman
Part II: Process
14. Vignette: Community College Composition, Critical Literacy, and the Writing about Writing Curriculum / Shawn Casey
15. Vignette: FYC Students as Writing Studies Scholars: Promoting Procedural Knowledge through Participation / Andrew Ogilvie
16. Vignette: Processes of Engagement: A Community College Perspective / Olga Aksakalova and Dominique Zino
17. Vignette: Engineering Writing about Writing in Engineering: Experiments in Technical Writing and Collaborative Design / Andrew Lucchesi
18. Vignette: Writing about Writing Pedagogy in a Mixed Major/Nonmajor Professional Writing Course / Gabriel Cutrufello
19. Negotiating WAW-PW across Diverse Institutional Contexts / Sarah Read and Michael J. Michaud
20. Vignette: A Unique Pair: Pairing WAW in a First-Year Writing Sequence as the First Step in Academic Research / Frances Johnson
21. Vignette: Researching about Research, Writing about Writing from Sources / Elizabeth Kleinfeld
22. Vignette: The FYW WAW Composition Classroom Reimagined: Threshold Concepts through Gamification / Samuel Stinson
23. Curricular Review in WAW: Involving Alumni, Students, and Faculty in Writing about Writing in Technical Fields / Jennifer deWinter
Part III: Engagement
24. Transfer of Writing-Related Learning / Rebecca S. Nowacek
25. Student Voice: Writing about Writing Focus: A Roundtable / Kimberly Hoover with Elle Limesand, Maggie Hammond, and Max Wellman
26. Finding a Way into WAW: Extending Invitations across Disciplinary Lines / Matthew Bryan, Kevin Roozen, and Nichole Stack
27. Digital Composing in WAW: What Students Learn through Infographics / Christy I. Wenger
28. Student Voice: Podcasting and Protocols: An Approach to Writing about Writing through Sound / Christian Smith with Gabrielle Frick and Patrick Siebel
29. Play the Game but Refocus the Aim: Teaching WAW within Alternative Pedagogies / Katie Jo LaRiviere
Conclusion: Afterwards and Forwards / Barbara Bird, Doug Downs, I. Moriah McCracken, and Jan Rieman
List of Contributors
Index