Writing As A Threshold Concept: Writing Is A Social & Rhetorical Activity
by Amy Locklear
1. Reflect differences in theory: Example of traditional disciplinary identity vs. interdisciplinarity
2. Reader reconstructs shared meaning
3. words get meaning in context
3.1. Thinking of ESL students
3.2. Context is historical / space / time
3.3. Human development parallels theory (Vygotsky and chain concepts) - those complexespreexist, we create our own systems
3.4. The introductions show us that the meaning of the discipline is contextual. Each respond to a particular moment in history and time.
3.5. Example: "commonplace" use by Bartholomae vs. Barnard
3.5.1. Bartholomae: uninitiated writer pulls on commonplaces to orient themselves
3.5.2. Barnard uses the term to critique Critical Theorists
4. is not natural
5. Assessment shapes context & instruction
6. Involves ethical choices
7. A technology through which writers create & recreate meaning
8. META LEVEL: How do they each handle theory or theorizing?
8.1. Looking at Table of Contents
8.2. Terms of Resistance
8.3. Concept terms allow us to trace the movements within our discipline
9. What we see: Represents the discipline's identity reflecting a range from remedial to interdisciplinarity
10. A Social Activity
10.1. Recursive
10.2. Reader/writer contributing to a single piece
10.3. Writing Studies: Social Turn
10.4. Active Resistance to writing as individual activity
11. A Rhetorical Activity
12. Knowledge Making
13. writing mediates
13.1. Method of writing, communication, framing that which is being mediated
13.2. Writing About Writing
13.3. Writing is a tech
13.4. Affordances
13.5. How our scholarship is published: digital vs print
14. How is the discipline of writing studies resisting popular conceptions of writing as a solo activity vs. the social?
15. The discipline gets meaning in context; what is it that changes the meaning of a word? What does the discipline do to contribute to those shifts?
16. "50 Shades of Theory"
17. How does the technology mediate our discipline?
