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Main words in any field, which can have varying meanings and even spark debate due to ongoing and complicated conversations about the history, usage, and meaning of these main words.
What are keywords?
While not necessarily a gadget-filled activity, writing is technically still an example of this.
What is a technology?
This kind of experience informs your writing.
What is prior?
According to writing studies scholar Andrea Lunsford, writing addresses, invokes, and creates these assembled listeners, readers, and/or viewers.
What are audiences?
Any type of communication--written, spoken, or otherwise expressed.
What is discourse?
The introduction to this text guides the reader away from the idea of reading this text as a glossary.
What is Keywords in Writing Studies?
Scholars Charles Bazerman and Howard Tinberg assert that in order for learners to avoid the "test and flush" method of rote memorization, they must be corporeally engaged in learning the subject matter. Otherwise, without active engagement and even passion, these scholars suggest learners aren't really learning.
What is embodied cognition?
What is social?
Regardless of what we write--from a journal entry to a lab report--writing always reveals this: who we are and how we self-actualize.
What is identity?
Within the schema of the rhetorical situation, this term refers to the writer's or speaker's writing/expression style.
What is tone?
The introduction to this text is much more informal and personal and much less academic than the other two introductions we've discussed.
What is Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life?
According to our discussion regarding Howard Tinberg's ideas about metacognition and thinking, reflection is another way to understand this concept.
What is metacognition?
The notion that writing--in whatever form--is always expressing something, especially as a way of exerting influence.
What is rhetorical?
Because we live in a society that is guided by writing--from the proliferation of signs and words all around us that constantly solicit our attention to the signs that read "EXIT" and "ENTER" above a store's entrance--we can say that writing does this.
What is mediates activity?
A term that is BOTH the piece of wood, stone, or other material that forms the base of a doorway in a house AND a type of key concept in any field of study.
What is a threshold concept? or What is a threshold?
This scholar, writer, and all-around baddie opens our syllabus with an excerpt from her book Borderlands/La Frontera? In this excerpt she describes her drive to write.
Who is Gloria Anzaldúa?
Whether we like it or not, writing has a way of revealing what we have defined as "our beliefs, values, and guiding principles."
What is ideology?
Writing that operates as more than typed words on a page and, instead, as a multifaceted tool of communication that is simultaneously visual, aural, oral, and/or tactile.
What is multimodal?
Despite the fact that the rhetor (speaker, writer, artist, etc.) creates a specific message within a specific context that is for a specific reason, the reader/listener/viewer ultimately creates this.
What is meaning?
Because writing is a relatively new technology within the context of human history, it is safe to say that writing is NOT this: inherent or innate.
What is natural?
A concept that the writers of this text describe as defining and organizing our past knowledge to accomplish and/or learn something new.
What is naming what we know?
Although, probably not in the same way you might on Broadway, you still do this when you write.
What is perform?
Successfully demonstrating your capacity to work with different sources across multiple disciplines in your writing underscores your ability to do this.
What is disciplinarity? or What is enacting disciplinarity?
Author, reader, and message are three components of this once-thought-to-be-stable concept.
What is the rhetorical triangle?
The concept that refers to how texts, words, and even people derive their meanings from other texts, words, and people.
What is intertextual?