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Next Steps: New Directions for/in Writing about Writing provides an expansive look at the increasingly popular Writing about Writing (WAW) approach to teaching writing. --Composition Studies A valuable contribution to writing studies generally and WAW studies in particular. WPAs wishing to develop it as a curriculum will find helpful essays, while instructors, from graduate TAs to the professional and tenure tracks, will find much useful problem-solving done for them by these practitioner-scholars. --Albert Rouzie, Ohio University

A valuable contribution to writing studies generally and WAW studies in particular. WPAs wishing to develop it as a curriculum will find helpful essays, while instructors, from graduate TAs to the professional and tenure tracks, will find much useful problem-solving done for them by these practitioner-scholars. --Albert Rouzie, Ohio University

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Barbara Bird is dean of faculty development and professor of English at Taylor University. Her scholarship focuses on the connection between WAW readings and scholarly writer identity/academic dispositions. She was awarded the Teaching Excellence and Campus Leadership award at Taylor in 2010.   Doug Downs is associate professor of writing studies at Montana State University, where he directed the Core Writing Program for five years and teaches professional writing, science journalism, multimodal composition, and rhetorical theory. His research centers on public conceptions of writing, reading, and research, particularly relating to first-year composition and to the cultural value of English studies.   I. Moriah McCracken is associate professor of writing and rhetoric and the director of the General Education Writing Program at St. Edward’s University in Austin, Texas, where she teaches courses in the writing program and in the Writing and Rhetoric major. Her research focuses on the relationships between threshold concepts, WAW, and information literacy.   Jan Rieman is senior lecturer of writing, rhetoric, and digital studies in the University Writing Program and the associate executive director of the University Writing Program at UNC Charlotte. She teaches multimodal composition and courses on the rhetoric of place. Her research focuses on writing program assessment, WAW, and antiracist language practices.  

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