Naming What We Know ─ Threshold Concepts of Writing Studies - Classroom Edition

Linda Adler-Kassner?is professor of writing and director of the writing program at University of California, Santa Barbara. She is coauthor of Basic Writing as a Political Act: Public Stories about Writing and Literacy;?coeditor of Questioning Authority: Stories Told in School,?The Bedford Bibliography for Teachers of Basic Writing, and?Naming What We Know;?and author of The Activist WPA. Her research has appeared in various edited collections and journals, including Journal of Basic Writing, College Composition and Communication, WPA Journal, and College English.

Elizabeth Wardle is professor and department chair of writing and rhetoric at the University of Central Florida. She is the coauthor of Writing about Writing,?coeditor of?Naming What We Know, and frequently speaks, conducts workshops, and consults with college and university writing programs around the country, helping them consider how threshold concepts and reserach-based knowledge about writing can be used to strengthen and build more effective courses and programs.