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Writing about Writing

Fifth  Edition|©2023  Elizabeth Wardle; Douglas Downs

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Wardle and Downs’ Writing about Writing helps you question their assumptions about writing and engage with “threshold concepts”—central ideas that writers need to understand in order to progress.

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Contents

Table of Contents

Part One. Exploring Threshold Concepts of Writing through Inquiry
 
Chapter 1. Investigating Writing: Threshold Concepts and Transfer

Chapter 2. Readers, Writers, and Texts: Understanding Genre and Rhetorical Reading

Chapter 3. Research: Participating in Conversational Inquiry about Writing

 
Part Two. Joining Conversations about Writing
     
Chapter 4. Composing
Threshold Concept: Writing Is a Process and All Writers Have More to Learn
 
Chapter 5. Literacies
Threshold Concept: Writing Is Impacted by Identities and Prior Experiences

Chapter 6. Rhetoric
* Threshold Concept: Rhetorical Choices Shape Worlds

Chapter 7. Communities
Threshold Concept: People Collaborate to Get Things Done with Writing

Authors

Elizabeth Wardle

Elizabeth Wardle is Professor and Director of the Roger and Joyce Howe Center for Writing Excellence at Miami University (OH). She was Chair of the Department of Writing and Rhetoric at the University of Central Florida (UCF), and Director of Writing Programs at UCF and University of Dayton. These experiences fed her interest in how students learn and repurpose what they know in new settings.  With Linda Adler-Kassner, she is co-editor of Naming What We Know: Threshold Concepts of Writing Studies, winner of the WPA Award for Outstanding Contribution to the Discipline (2016).


Douglas Downs

Doug Downs is an associate professor of rhetoric and composition in the Department of English at Montana State University.  His research interests center on research-writing pedagogy both in first-year composition and across the undergraduate curriculum.  He continues to work extensively with Elizabeth Wardle on writing-about-writing pedagogies and is currently studying problems of researcher authority in undergraduate research in the humanities.


Join the movement that is transforming First-Year Composition

Wardle and Downs’ Writing about Writing helps you question their assumptions about writing and engage with “threshold concepts”—central ideas that writers need to understand in order to progress.

Table of Contents

Part One. Exploring Threshold Concepts of Writing through Inquiry
 
Chapter 1. Investigating Writing: Threshold Concepts and Transfer

Chapter 2. Readers, Writers, and Texts: Understanding Genre and Rhetorical Reading

Chapter 3. Research: Participating in Conversational Inquiry about Writing

 
Part Two. Joining Conversations about Writing
     
Chapter 4. Composing
Threshold Concept: Writing Is a Process and All Writers Have More to Learn
 
Chapter 5. Literacies
Threshold Concept: Writing Is Impacted by Identities and Prior Experiences

Chapter 6. Rhetoric
* Threshold Concept: Rhetorical Choices Shape Worlds

Chapter 7. Communities
Threshold Concept: People Collaborate to Get Things Done with Writing

Elizabeth Wardle

Elizabeth Wardle is Professor and Director of the Roger and Joyce Howe Center for Writing Excellence at Miami University (OH). She was Chair of the Department of Writing and Rhetoric at the University of Central Florida (UCF), and Director of Writing Programs at UCF and University of Dayton. These experiences fed her interest in how students learn and repurpose what they know in new settings.  With Linda Adler-Kassner, she is co-editor of Naming What We Know: Threshold Concepts of Writing Studies, winner of the WPA Award for Outstanding Contribution to the Discipline (2016).


Douglas Downs

Doug Downs is an associate professor of rhetoric and composition in the Department of English at Montana State University.  His research interests center on research-writing pedagogy both in first-year composition and across the undergraduate curriculum.  He continues to work extensively with Elizabeth Wardle on writing-about-writing pedagogies and is currently studying problems of researcher authority in undergraduate research in the humanities.


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