Next steps: new directions for/in writing about writing

Includes bibliographical references and index.First collection of teacher and student voices on a writing pedagogy that puts Rhetoric and Composition's expert knowledge at the center of the classroom. Forty plus contributors report on writing-about-writing pedagogies from the basic classroom to the graduate seminar from around the United States and the world.--Provided by publisher.Introduction / Barbara Bird, Doug Downs, I. Moriah McCracken, and Jan Rieman -- 1. Writing about Writing: A History / Barbara Bird, Doug Downs, I. Moriah McCracken, and Jan Rieman -- Part I: Writerly Identities -- 2. Threshold Concepts as a Foundation for "Writing about Writing" Pedagogies / Elizabeth Wardle and Linda Adler-Kassner -- 3. Writing about Writing in the Disciplines in First-Year Composition / Rebecca Robinson -- 4. Student Voice: Reflections on Our Freshman Writing Course / Emma Gaier and Megan Wallace -- 5. (Dis)Positioning Writing Confidence, Reflecting on Writer Identity: A Writing about Writing Curriculum Aimed at Knowledge Transfer / Lisa Tremain -- 6. Student Voice: Writing about Writing: Leading to New Perspectives / Hiroki Sugimoto -- 7. Vignette: WAW-Professional Writing for STEM Co-op Students / Joy Arbor -- 8. "I Am Seen -- I Am My Culture -- and I Can Write": How WAW Returns Multilingual Learners to Voice, Building Self-Efficacy and Rhetorical Flexibility / Christina Grant -- 9. Vignette: El Ensayo: Latinxs Writing about Writing / Nancy Wilson, Rebecca Jackson, and Valerie Vera -- 10. Vignette: "Writing Is Like Shaping a Bonsai Tree": Writing about Writing and Culture in a Developmental Composition Course / Gwen Hart -- 11. Why I Keep Teaching Writing about Writing in Qatar: Expanding Literacies, Developing Metacognition, and Learning for Transfer / Mysti Rudd -- 12. Next Steps, or Rather, One Step at a Time: A How-To Guide for Implementing Writing about Writing / Kristen di Gennaro -- 13. Developing a Writing about Writing Curriculum / Cat Mahaffey and Jan Rieman -- Part II: Process-- 14. Vignette: Community College Composition, Critical Literacy, and the Writing about Writing Curriculum / Shawn Casey -- 15. Vignette: FYC Students as Writing Studies Scholars: Promoting Procedural Knowledge through Participation / Andrew Ogilvie -- 16. Vignette: Processes of Engagement: A Community College Perspective / Olga Aksakalova and Dominique Zino -- 17. Vignette: Engineering Writing about Writing in Engineering: Experiments in Technical Writing and Collaborative Design / Andrew Lucchesi -- 18. Vignette: Writing about Writing Pedagogy in a Mixed Major/Nonmajor Professional Writing Course / Gabriel Cutrufello -- 19. Negotiating WAW-PW across Diverse Institutional Contexts / Sarah Read and Michael J. Michaud -- 20. Vignette: A Unique Pair: Pairing WAW in a First-Year Writing Sequence as the First Step in Academic Research / Frances Johnson -- 21. Vignette: Researching about Research, Writing about Writing from Sources / Elizabeth Kleinfeld -- 22. Vignette: The FYW WAW Composition Classroom Reimagined: Threshold Concepts through Gamification / Samuel Stinson