Threshold concepts

Embodying Process: A Making-Based Writing Challenge

Activities, demystifying writing assignments, metacognition, Process, reflection, Threshold concepts, visual/multimodal rhetorics, writing myths and anxiety /

Franziska Tsufim Assignments & Activities Archive Activity Description Writing classes routinely ask students to engage in a lengthy process of drafting and revising their work. As instructors, we emphasize to students the need to “fail” (Carr), call “shitty first drafts” messy yet generative (Lamott) and position these ideas as “writing thresholds” (Adler-Kassner & Wardle). At […]

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Teaching Three ‘Writing for University and Beyond’ Course Concepts Simultaneously Utilizing One Three-minute Scene from a Bollywood Film

Activities, Critical Language Awareness, Threshold concepts, translingualism, writing myths and anxiety, Writing Transfer /

Kanika Verma Assignments & Activities Archive Activity Description Teaching writing concepts in an undergraduate university writing course can be challenging. Several threshold concepts in writing studies are new for undergraduates majoring in any discipline. The comprehension of many concepts is dependent on other sub-concepts or meta-concepts. For instance, students need various examples to understand what

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