Publisher's Synopsis
"A comprehensive, flexibly designed textbook that draws on recent research about threshold concepts and reflective practice, Rethinking Your Writing offers a transfer-focused approach that emphasizes students' repeated practice in identifying their own writing challenges and strategies. This open-access textbook presents the learning of writing as a situated, rhetorical, recursive process of problems wrestled with and decisions made-starting from conceptual decisions such as identifying audience and content needs to late-stage choices during drafting, revision, editing, and polishing. Extensive discussions of threshold concepts, reflective writing, peer review, revision strategies, and writers' dispositions enhance support for reflection. Activities and opportunities for additional learning support student engagement with key concepts, writing processes, rhetorical situations, and issues of equity and inclusion. In Rethinking Your Writi