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In Writing Rediscovered, author and writing scholar Elizabeth Wardle invites you to transform your approach to writing through nine powerful ""threshold concepts."" These foundational ideas will reshape how you think, feel, and act as a writer. Rather than offering generic writing tips, this book dives deep into what's holding you back from seeing yourself as a writer. You'll challenge your beliefs about what writing is, who can be a writer, and what makes writing ""good."" Dr. Wardle helps you reflect on past experiences with writing instruction and replace damaging ideas with more productive ones. Writing Rediscovered blends decades of research with accessible, interactive methods, offering practical tools to help you reshape your writing identity. Whether you're writing reports, emails, or poetry, this book will change how you approach writing. Inside the book, you'll find research-based strategies for building writing confidence and understanding your relationship with writing; reflective activities to actively engage you in transforming your writing life; exercises for developing your personal writing process and toolkit; and more.

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Elizabeth Wardle is the Howe Distinguished Professor of Written Communication and director of the Howe Center for Writing Excellence at Miami University (Ohio), where she leads innovative faculty development programs that help educators across disciplines rethink their relationship with writing in both academic and professional settings. Based in Oxford, Ohio, Wardle is the coauthor of Writing about Writing and Naming What We Know, both considered seminal works in the field of writing studies. Christa Lewis and her pseudonym Pippa Jayne have narrated 265 audiobooks between them. Christa is a conservatory trained actor with a smart and funny vibe who can also meet the moment in nonfiction thanks to a seventeen-year stint as a newsreader. Christa speaks accent-free German fluently and offers a variety of accents and dialects. Magically, there have been eight AudioFile Earphones Awards in nonfiction/biography and memoir, YA, and fiction-as well as a SOVAS Voice Arts Award, a Sultry Listeners Award, a Listeners Choice Award, and two Audie nominations.

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