Contents
Acknowledgments
Editors’ Introduction: Threshold Concepts, Naming What We Know, and Reconsidering our Shared Conceptions / Linda Adler-Kassner and Elizabeth Wardle
Part 1: Challenges, Critiques, And New Conceptions
1. Recognizing the Limits of Threshold Concept Theory / Elizabeth Wardle, Linda Adler-Kassner, Jonathan Alexander, Norbert Elliot, J.W. Hammond, Mya Poe, Jacqueline Rhodes, and Anne-MarieWomack
2. Literacy Is a Sociohistoric Phenomenon with the Potential to Liberate and Oppress / Kate Vieira, Lauren Heap, Sandra Descourtis, Jonathan Isaac, Samitha Senanayake, Brenna Swift, Chris Castillo, Ann Meejung Kim, Kassia Krzus-Shaw, Maggie Black, Ọlá Ọlá
3. Thinking like a Writer: Threshold Concepts and First-Year Writers in Open-Admissions Classrooms / Cassandra Phillips, Holly Hassel, Jennifer Heinert, Joanne Baird Giordano, and Katie Kalish
4. Writing as Practiced and Studied beyond “Writing Studies” / Doug Hesse and Peggy O’Neill
5. Rhetoric as Persistently “Troublesome Knowledge”: Implications for Disciplinarity / Jennifer Helene Maher
6. The World Confronts Us with Uncertainty: Deep Reading as a Threshold Concept / Patrick Sullivan
7. Expanding the Inquiry: What Everyday Writing with Drawing Helps Us Understand about Writing and about Writing-Based Threshold Concepts / Kathleen Blake Yancey
Part 2: Using Threshold Concepts To Engage With Writing Teachers And Students
8. Doors between Disciplines: Threshold Concepts and the Community College Writing Program / Mark Blaauw-Hara, Carrie Strand Tebeau, Dominic Borowiak, Jami Blaauw-Hara
9. Extending What We Know: Reflections on the Transformational Value of Threshold Concepts for Writing Studies Contingent Faculty / Lisa Tremain, Marianne Ahokas, Sarah Ben-Zvi,and Kerry Marsden
10. Threshold Concepts and Curriculum Redesign in First-Year Writing / Heidi Estrem, Dawn Shepherd, and Susan E. Shadle
11. Framing Graduate Teaching Assistant Preparation around Threshold Concepts of Writing Studies / Aimee C. Mapes and Susan Miller-Cochran
12. Threshold Concepts and the Phenomenal Forms / Deborah Mutnick
13. Grappling with Threshold Concepts over Time: A Perspective from Tutor Education / Rebecca Nowacek, Aishah Mahmood, Katherine Stein, Madylan Yarc, Saul Lopez, and Matt Thul
14. “I Can’t Go On, I’ll Go On”: Liminality in Undergraduate Writing / Matthew Fogarty, Páraic Kerrigan, Sarah O’Brien, and Alison Farrell
Part 3 : Threshold Concepts And Writing: Beyond The Discipline
15. Rethinking Epistemologically Inclusive Teaching / Linda Adler-Kassner
16. Using a Threshold Concepts Framework to Facilitate an Expertise-Based WAC Model for Faculty Development / Elizabeth Wardle
17. Talking about Writing: A Study of Key Writing Terms Used Instructionally across the Curriculum / Chris M. Anson, Chen Chen, and Ian G. Anson
Editors’ Conclusion: Expanding and Examining What We (Think We) Know / Linda Adler-Kassnerand Elizabeth Wardle
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