Allow Me to Introduce Myself
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?
The concept that refers to how texts, words, and even people derive their meanings from other texts, words, and people.
What is intertextuality?
This document details the absence mitigation plan.
What is the slyllabus?
According to writing studies scholar Andrea Lunsford, writing addresses, invokes, and creates what we call these assembled listeners, readers, and/or viewers.
What are audiences?
Any type of communication--written, spoken, or otherwise expressed.
What is discourse?
The capacity to act, exercise power, self-determination, and accountability are all different facets of this keyword.
What is agency?
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?
What is social?
Driving up to this kind of sign (a red octagon with the word STOP in the center) anticipates that the driver will stop the car is an example of which threshold concept?
What is "writing mediates activity" ?
Within the schema of SPACECAT, this term refers to the writer's or speaker's writing/expression style and is the LAST term in the mnemonic device.
What is tone?
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?
These two notions:
*something to do, especially in a classroom
*A discipline
both describe this metaconcept.
What is writing is an activity and a subject of study?
This author explains that "good writing is about telling the truth" (3).
Who is Anne Lamott?
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?
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?
In Anne Lamott's essay, "Short Assignments," she tells the story of this person who has not finished his report on birds and, thus, prompts his father to share some advice that Lamott later uses as the title of the book we've been reading together in class.
Who her older brother?
Deciding whether or not to mislead your reader reflects this threshold concept of writing.
What is writing involves making ethical choices?
We have learned (and practiced) that all writing begins with these.
What are "shitty first drafts"?
Knowing that how you compose a letter will differ from how you develop a profile reflects this threshold concept about writing.
What is "writing speaks to situations through recognizable forms"?
An implication of the fact that when people write, they choose whether or not to conform to certain conventions and expectations is an example of this threshold concept.
What is "genres are enacted by writers and readers"?
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 threshold? (threshold concept)
Richard Straub shares specific suggestions for engaging in this kind of activity?
What is meaningfully responding to peer writing? (Also: what is "Responding--Really Responding to Other Students' Writing"?)
Thinking of writing as a process of discovery is one way of conceptualizing this threshold concept.
What is "writing is a knowledge-making activity"?
Author, reader, and message are three components of this once-thought-to-be-stable concept.
What is the rhetorical triangle?
According to Anne Lamott, this is not a slogan, or wishful thinking but, instead, this.
What is a moral position?