Handlist - Keywords and Threshold Concepts
Keywords - from Keywords in Writing Studies (2015)
- Agency
- Body
- Citizen
- Civic/Public
- Class
- Community
- Computer
- Contact Zone
- Context
- Creativity
- Design
- Disability
- Discourse
- Ecology
- English
- Gender
- Genre
- Identity
- Ideology
- Literacy
- Location
- Materiality
- Multilingual/ism
- Network
- Other
- Performance
- Personal
- Production
- Queer
- Reflection
- Research
- Silence
- Technical Communication
- Technology
- Work
- Writing across the Curriculum/Writing in the Disciplines
Threshold Concepts - from Naming What We Know (2015)
- Writing Is an Activity and a Subject of Study (15)
- Concept 1: Writing Is a Social and Rhetorical Activity
- Writing Is a Social and Rhetorical Activity (17)
- Writing Is a Knowledge-Making Activity (19)
- Writing Addresses, Invokes, and/or Creates Audiences (20)
- Writing Expresses and Shares Meaning to Be Reconstructed by the Reader (21)
- Words Get Their Meanings from Other Words (23)
- Writing Mediates Activity (26)
- Writing Is Not Natural (27)
- Assessing Writing Shapes Contexts and Instruction (29)
- Writing Involves Making Ethical Choices (31)
- Writing Is a Technology through Which Writers Create and Recreate Meaning (32)
- Concept 2: Writing Speaks to Situations through Recognizable Forms
- Writing Speaks to Situations through Recognizable Forms (35)
- Writing Represents the World, Events, Ideas, and Feelings (37)
- Genres Are Enacted by Writers and Readers (39)
- Writing Is a Way of Enacting Disciplinarity (40)
- All Writing Is Multimodal (42)
- Writing Is Performative (43)
- Texts Get Their Meanings from Other Texts (44)
- Concept 3: Writing Enacts and Creates Identities and Ideologies
- Writing Enacts and Creates Identities and Ideologies (48)
- Writing Is Linked to Identity (50)
- Writers' Histories, Processes, and Identities Vary (52)
- Writing Is Informed by Prior Experience (54)
- Disciplinary and Professional Identities Are Constructed through Writing (55)
- Writing Provides a Representation of Ideologies and Identities (57)
- Concept 4: All Writers Have More to Learn
- All Writers Have More to Learn (59)
- Text Is an Object Outside of Oneself That Can Be Improved and Developed (61)
- Failure Can Be an Important Part of Writing Development (62)
- Learning to Write Effectively Requires Different Kinds of Practice, Time, and Effort (64)
- Revision Is Central to Developing Writing (66)
- Assessment Is an Essential Component of Learning to Write (67)
- Writing Involves the Negotiation of Language Differences (68)
- Concept 5: Writing Is (Also Always) a Cognitive Activity
- Writing Is (Also Always) a Cognitive Activity (71)
- Writing Is an Expression of Embodied Cognition (74)
- Metacognition Is Not Cognition (75)
- Habituated Practice Can Lead to Entrenchment (77)
- Reflection is Critical for Writers' Development (78)
- Concept 1: Writing Is a Social and Rhetorical Activity
Contact Information
Derek N. Mueller, PhDAssociate Professor of Rhetoric and Writing
Director of Composition
Department of English
Virginia Tech
Office: 315 Shanks Hall
Spring 2020 Office Hours: T, 12-3
Phone: +1-734-985-0485
dmueller@vt.edu
http://derekmueller.net/rc/