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This popular guide helps you master essential “threshold concepts” that will improve your writing. Inside Front Cover Accessibility Halftitle Page Title Page Copyright Page Contents Preface for Instructors 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 Influenced by Identities and Prior Experiences (Chapter 5: Literacies) Threshold Concept: Rhetorical Choices Shape Our Worlds (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 Assignment Option 1 Assignment Option 2 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 Research: 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 Assignment Option 1 Assignment Option 2 Part 2 Joining Conversations about Writing Chapter 4 Composing Shitty First Drafts Framing the Reading Getting Ready to Read Questions for Discussion and Journaling Applying and Exploring Ideas Meta Moment The Composing Processes of Unskilled College Writers Framing the Reading Getting Ready to Read Questions for Discussion and Journaling Applying and Exploring Ideas Meta Moment 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 Meta Moment 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 Meta Moment Considering the Comments: Theorizing Online Audiences as Emergent Processes Framing the Reading Getting Ready to Read Questions for Discussion and Journaling Applying and Exploring Ideas Meta Moment Teaching the Conventions of Academic Discourse Framing the Reading Getting Ready to Read Questions for Discussion and Journaling Applying and Exploring Ideas Meta Moment Responding — Really Responding — to Other Students’ Writing Framing the Reading Getting Ready to Read Questions for Discussion and Journaling Applying and Exploring Ideas Meta Moment 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 Meta Moment Materiality Matters: How Human Bodies and Writing Technologies Impact the Composing Process Framing the Reading Getting Ready to Read Questions for Discussion and Journaling Applying and Exploring Ideas Meta Moment Major Writing Assignments: Writing about Processes Assignment Option 1 Assignment Option 2 Assignment Option 3 Chapter 5 Literacies Sponsors of Literacy Framing the Reading Getting Ready to Read Questions for Discussion and Journaling Applying and Exploring Ideas Meta Moment Learning to Read Framing the Reading Getting Ready to Read Questions for Discussion and Journaling Applying and Exploring Ideas Meta Moment 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 Meta Moment Challenging Our Labels: Rejecting the Language of Remediation Framing the Reading Getting Ready to Read Questions for Discussion and Journaling Applying and Exploring Ideas Meta Moment Should Writers Use They Own English? Framing the Reading Getting Ready to Read Questions for Discussion and Journaling Applying and Exploring Ideas Meta Moment Chinks in My Armor: Reclaiming One’s Voice Framing the Reading Getting Ready to Read Questions for Discussion and Journaling Applying and Exploring Ideas Meta Moment Major Writing Assignments: Writing about Literacies Assignment Option 1 Assignment Option 2 Assignment Option 3 Chapter 6 Rhetoric 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 Meta Moment Nommo, Kawaida and Communicative Practice: Bringing Good into the World Framing the Reading Getting Ready to Read Questions for Discussion and Journaling Applying and Exploring Ideas Meta Moment Multilingual Writing as Rhetorical Attunement Framing the Reading Getting Ready to Read Questions for Discussion and Journaling Applying and Exploring Ideas Meta Moment The Rhetorics of Online Autism Advocacy: A Case for Rhetorical Listening Framing the Reading Getting Ready to Read Questions for Discussion and Journaling Applying and Exploring Ideas Meta Moment Pardon My Acento: Racioalphabetic Ideologies and Rhetorical Recovery through Alternative Writing Systems Framing the Reading Getting Ready to Read Questions for Discussion and Journaling Applying and Exploring Ideas Meta Moment Shooting Our Last Arrow: Developing a Rhetoric of Identity for Unenrolled American Indians Framing the Reading Getting Ready to Read Questions for Discussion and Journaling Applying and Exploring Ideas Meta Moment White Protests, Black Riots: Racialized Representation in American Media Framing the Reading Getting Ready to Read Questions for Discussion and Journaling Applying and Exploring Ideas Meta Moment Major Writing Assignments: Writing about Rhetoric Assignment Option 1 Assignment Option 2 Assignment Option 3 Chapter 7 Communities Literacy, Discourse, and Linguistics: Introduction Framing the Reading Getting Ready to Read Questions for Discussion and Journaling Applying and Exploring Ideas Meta Moment Reflections on the Concept of Discourse Community Framing the Reading Getting Ready to Read Questions for Discussion and Journaling Applying and Exploring Ideas Meta Moment Intertextuality and the Discourse Community Framing the Reading Getting Ready to Read Questions for Discussion and Journaling Applying and Exploring Ideas Meta Moment Coaches Can Read, Too: An Ethnographic Study of a Football Coaching Discourse Community Framing the Reading Getting Ready to Read Questions for Discussion and Journaling Applying and Exploring Ideas Meta Moment Learning to Serve: The Language and Literacy of Food Service Workers Framing the Reading Getting Ready to Read Questions for Discussion and Journaling Applying and Exploring Ideas Meta Moment Learning the Language Framing the Reading Getting Ready to Read Questions for Discussion and Journaling Applying and Exploring Ideas Meta Moment 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 Meta Moment Double Binds and Consequential Transitions: Considering Matters of Identity During Moments of Rhetorical Challenge Framing the Reading Getting Ready to Read Questions for Discussion and Journaling Applying and Exploring Ideas Meta Moment Rhetoric Deployed in the Communication between the National Energy Board and Aboriginal Communities in the Case of the Trans Mountain Pipeline Framing the Reading Getting Ready to Read Questions for Discussion and Journaling Applying and Exploring Ideas Meta Moment Major Writing Assignments: Writing about Discourse Communities Assignment Option 1 Assignment Option 2 Assignment Option 3 Glossary Acknowledgments Index Notes Extended Descriptions Findings from research Figure 2.1 Genre system enabling conversation inquiry Figure 3.1 Summary of John Swales’s CARS model of a research article’s introduction. Bird by bird A sample of a composing style sheet Figure 1 Screenshot from “Even the Potatoes Are Sad.” Figure 2 Comment from “Holly from Sevandanda” Figure 3 Comment from “melaniecmadden” Figure 4 Comment from “Anne Hopkins” Figure 5 Salasin’s exchange with commenters Figure 6 Ede and Lunsford’s visual diagram of the address forward slash invoke paradigm Figure 7 A visual of audience as an emergent process Figure 1 Student essay with annotations Figure 1 Student sample essay Table of contents Figure 1 Screenshot of Computer-Keyboard Codes Table of contents Figure 1 Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs Conference badges Kelly Medina-López’s profile Figure 3 A Symposium on Second Language Writing registration form A webpage Journal of Education Cover page of a book Figure 1 Activity system triangle Figure 1 Proposed pipeline expansion route Figure 2 Benefits of the Trans Mountain Expansion project Inside back cover Back cover Inside Back Cover Back Cover