Writing about Writing 2nd Edition by Elizabeth Wardle
ISBN: 9781457636943
Features of Writing about Writing, Second Edition
Topics That Matter to Writers
Writing about Writing is organized around concepts and principles from Writing Studies
with which we think students should become familiar: how texts in general—and ideas
about writing in particular—are constructed; what writing processes are and how they
work; what “literacy” means and how people become literate (or multiliterate); how
communities use and are shaped by discourse; and how writers can gain authority when
writing in college. These issues are framed in the text as questions, each of which forms
the basis of one chapter. Many of these are issues that were covered in the fi rst edition,
but some are new. All have been re-ordered to create a carefully sequenced and scaffolded
learning experience for students:
• Chapter 1: Literacies: Where Do Your Ideas About Reading and Writing Come From?
• Chapter 2: Individual in Community: How Do Texts Mediate Activities?
• Chapter 3: Rhetoric: How Is Meaning Constructed in Context?
• Chapter 4: Processes: How Are Texts Composed?
• Chapter 5: Multi-Modal Composition: What Counts as Writing?
By asking students to fi nd their own answers to these questions, we encourage them
to refl ect on past literacy experiences and to be mindful of present ones, making them
directly responsible, in the end, for their own learning.
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