Writing about Writing
by Elizabeth Wardle, Doug Downs
5th Edition
Publisher: Bedford/St. Martin's
Book Details
| Print ISBN | 9781319332341 |
| eText ISBN | 9781319486518 |
| Publisher | Bedford/St. Martin's |
| Publishing Year | 2023 |
| Edition | 5th Edition |
| Language | English |
Writing about Writing, 5th Edition, by Elizabeth Wardle and Doug Downs, is an undergraduate textbook that makes writing itself the central subject of inquiry. Published by Bedford/St. Martin's, this volume helps students analyze and re-evaluate their existing assumptions about writing.
The initial section, Part One, systematically explains the value of investigating writing. It introduces threshold concepts alongside knowledge transfer, details genre conventions and rhetorical reading strategies, and offers a step-by-step guide for conducting original writing studies research.
Furthermore, this 5th Edition introduces a specific new threshold concept, asserting that rhetorical choices shape worlds. These conceptual tools prepare undergraduate writers to adapt their skills and transfer their understanding of writing across diverse new situations.
Table of Contents
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
Chapter 4: Composing
- • Anne Lamott, Shitty First Drafts
- • Sondra Perl, The Composing Processes of Unskilled College Writers
- • Nancy Sommers, Revision Strategies of Student Writers and Experienced Adult Writers
- • Mike Rose, Rigid Rules, Inflexible Plans, and the Stifling of Language: A Cognitivist Analysis of Writer’s Block
- • John R. Gallagher, Considering the Comments: Theorizing Online Audiences as Emergent Processes
- • Teresa Thonney, Teaching the Conventions of Academic Discourse
- • Richard Straub, Responding — Really Responding — to Other Students’ Writing
- • Jaydelle Celestine, Did I Create the Process? Or Did the Process Create Me? [first-year student text]
- • Brittany Halley, Materiality Matters: How Human Bodies and Writing Technologies Impact the Composing Process [student text]
Chapter 5: Literacies
- • Deborah Brandt, Sponsors of Literacy
- • Malcolm X, Learning to Read
- • Victor Villanueva, Excerpt from Bootstraps: From an American Academic of Color
- • Arturo Tejada Jr., Esther Gutierrez, Brisa Galindo, DeShonna Wallace, and Sonia Castaneda, Challenging Our Labels: Rejecting the Language of Remediation [first-year student text]
- • Vershawn Ashanti Young, Should Writers Use They Own English?
- • Julie Wan, Chinks in My Armor: Reclaiming One’s Voice [first-year student text]
Chapter 6: Rhetoric
- • Doug Downs, Rhetoric: Making Sense of Human Interaction and Meaning-Making
- • Maulana Karenga, Nommo, Kawaida and Communicative Practice: Bringing Good into the World
- • Rebecca Lorimer Leonard, Multilingual Writing as Rhetorical Attunement
- • Paul Heilker and Jason King, The Rhetorics of Online Autism Advocacy: A Case for Rhetorical Listening
- • Kelly Medina-López, Pardon My Acento: Racioalphabetic Ideologies and Rhetorical Recovery through Alternative Writing Systems
- • Resa Crane Bizzaro, Shooting Our Last Arrow: Developing a Rhetoric of Identity for Unenrolled American Indians
- • Heather Yarrish, White Protests, Black Riots: Racialized Representation in American Media [student text]
Chapter 7: Communities
- • James Paul Gee, Literacy, Discourse, and Linguistics: Introduction
- • John Swales, Reflections on the Concept of Discourse Community
- • James E. Porter, Intertextuality and the Discourse Community
- • Sean Branick, Coaches Can Read, Too: An Ethnographic Study of a Football Coaching Discourse Community [first-year student text]
- • Tony Mirabelli, Learning to Serve: The Language and Literacy of Food Service Workers
- • Perri Klass, Learning the Language
- • Elizabeth Wardle, Identity, Authority, and Learning to Write in New Workplaces
- • Elizabeth Wardle and Nicolette Mercer Clement, Double Binds and Consequential Transitions: Considering Matters of Identity During Moments of Rhetorical Challenge
- • Lidia Cooey-Hurtado, Danielle Tan, and Breagh Kobayashi, Rhetoric Deployed in the Communication Between the National Energy Board and Aboriginal Communities in the Case of the Trans Mountain Pipeline [student text]
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