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CP Writing about Writing 3e for University of Memphis
Third EditionElizabeth Wardle; Doug Downs
©2020You can learn to write well.
How do your experiences with writing affect how you write? How does writing help us communicate and get things done? Writing about Writing helps you make sense of how writing works and who you are as a writer. This book includes the essays and assignments you need in order to do your coursework.
Table of Contents
CHAPTER 1, Threshold Concepts: Why Do Your Ideas about Writing Matter?
Threshold Concepts: Why Do Your Ideas about Writing Matter?
Introduction to the Conversation
Threshold Concepts of Writing
Genre and Rhetorical Reading: Threshold Concepts That Assist Academic Reading and Writing
Stuart Greene, Argument as Conversation: The Role of Inquiry in Writing a Researched Argument
Richard Straub, Responding—Really Responding—to Other Students’ Writing
Using This Book
ASSIST TAGS GUIDE
Writing about Threshold Concepts: Writing Assignment
CHAPTER 2, Literacies: How Is Writing Impacted by Our Prior Experiences?Deborah Brandt, Sponsors of Literacy (Tagged Reading)*Sandra Cisneros, Only DaughterMalcolm X, Learning to ReadVictor Villanueva, Excerpt from Bootstraps: From an Academic of Color*Arturo Tejada Jr., Esther Gutierrez, Brisa Galindo, DeShonna Wallace, and Sonia Castaneda, Changing Our Labels: Rejecting the Language of Remediation (First-Year Student Text) *Vershawn Ashanti Young, "Nah, We Straight": An Argument Against Code Switching*Barbara Mellix, From Outside, In*Liane Robertson, Kara Taczak, and Kathleen Blake Yancey, Notes Toward a Theory of Prior KnowledgeNancy Sommers, I Stand Here WritingDonald Murray, All Writing Is Autobiography*Lucas Pasqualin, Don’t Panic: A Hitchhiker’s Guide to My Literacy (First-Year Student Text)Jeff Grabill, William Hart-Davidson, Stacey Pigg, et al., Revisualizing Composition: Mapping the Writing Lives of First-Year College StudentsWriting about Literacies: Writing AssignmentsCHAPTER 3, Individuals in Community: How Do Texts Mediate Activities?James Paul Gee, Literacy, Discourse, and Linguistics: Introduction (Tagged Reading)Tony Mirabelli, Learning to Serve: The Language and Literacy of Food Service WorkersAnn M. Johns, Discourse Communities and Communities of Practice: Membership, Conflict, and Diversity*Perri Klass, Learning the LanguageLucille McCarthy, A Stranger in Strange Lands; A College Student Writing across the CurriculumSean Branick, Coaches Can Read, Too: An Ethnographic Study of a Football Coaching Discourse Community (First-Year Student Text)Donna Kain and Elizabeth Wardle, Activity Theory: An Introduction for the Writing ClassroomElizabeth Wardle, Identity, Authority, and Learning to Write in New WorkplacesVictoria Marro, The Genres of Chi Omega: An Activity Analysis (First-Year Student Text)Writing about Individuals in Community: Writing AssignmentsCHAPTER 4, Rhetoric: How Is Meaning Constructed in Context?*Doug Downs, Rhetoric: Making Sense of Human Interaction and Meaning-Making Keith Grant-Davie, Rhetorical Situations and Their Constituents (Tagged Reading)*Jim Ridolfo and Dànielle Nicole DeVoss, Composing for Recomposition: Rhetorical Velocity and DeliveryJames E. Porter, Intertextuality and the Discourse CommunityChristina Haas and Linda Flower, Rhetorical Reading Strategies and the Construction of MeaningMargaret Kantz, Helping Students Use Textual Sources Persuasively *Jim W. Corder, Argument as Emergence, Rhetoric as Love*Annalise Sigona, Impression Management on Facebook and Twitter: Where Are People More Likely to Share Positivity or Negativity with Their Audiences? (First-Year Student Text)Dennis Baron, From Pencils to Pixels: The Stages of Literacy Technologies*Natasha N. Jones and Stephanie K. Wheeler, Document Design and Social Justice: A Universal Design for Documents*Komysha Hassan, Digital Literacy and the Making of Meaning: How Format Affects Interpretation in the University of Central Florida Libraries Search Interface (First-Year Student Text)Writing about Rhetoric: Writing AssignmentsCHAPTER 5, Processes: How Are Texts Composed?*Stacey Pigg, Coordinating Constant Invention: Social Media’s Role in Distributed WorkSondra Perl, The Composing Processes of Unskilled College Writers (Tagged Reading)*Alcir Santos Neto, Tug of War: The Writing Process of a Bilingual Writer and his Struggles (First-Year Student Text)Mike Rose, Rigid Rules, Inflexible Plans, and the Stifling of Language: A Cognitivist Analysis of Writer’s BlockJoseph M. Williams, The Phenomenology of Error *Michael Rodgers, Expanding Constraints (First-Year Student Text)Carol Berkenkotter, Decisions and Revisions: The Planning Strategies of a Publishing Writer, and Donald Murray, Response of a Laboratory Rat—or, Being Protocoled Anne Lamott, Shitty First Drafts Nancy Sommers, Revision Strategies of Student Writers and Experienced Adult WritersWriting about Processes: Writing Assignments