Concept 3: Writing Enacts and Creates Identities and Ideologies

Writing Expertise: A Research-based Approach to Writing and Learning across the Disciplines

“…Stating your field's (or sub-field's) expectations is the starting point for providing this disciplinary access. That's because, as Chapter 1 noted, writing is never "just writing"-it's a representation of the values and ideologies that are important to you and to others with whom you feel yourself to be aligned (Lerner, 2015;Scott, 2015;Villanueva, 2015).…”

Demystifying Writing: Strategies for Developing Better Writing

“…Indeed, writing is, in all cases, a social and rhetorical activity, since without understanding and taking account of rhetorical and social aspects, it is almost impossible to convey the intended message through writing. Scott (2016) argues that the writers' ideologies are inevitably replicated in their writing. Writers knowingly and unknowingly embed and reveal their ideologies in their writing.…”

“…In their writing, they bring their ideologies, including religious, economic, cultural, mythic, linguistic, legal, and many other aspects. Scott (2016) argues, "Writing is always ideological because discourses and instances of language use do not exist independently from cultures and their ideologies" (p. 48). Of course, writing disseminates their cultural inclinations and ideological perspectives.…”

REAL LIFE: Student Perspective

“…To avoid disrupting the flow of the narrative too much by including lengthy parenthetical citations, I am employing footnotes in a few places here to direct readers to additional readings and citations. For more discussion of the emerging teacher-scholar-activist professional identity model, please see Tinberg 1997;Lewiecki-Wilson and Sommers 1999;Lovas 2002;Andelora 2005;Andelora 2008;Kroll 2012;Andelora 2013;Sullivan 2015b;Griffiths 2017;Jensen, Sullivan, and Toth 2017;Suh and Jensen 2017;Sullivan 2017a;Sullivan 2017b;Warnke and Higgins 2018;Toth, Sullivan, and Calhoon-Dillahunt 2019;Jensen, Sullivan, and Toth 2019; see also Alford and Kroll 2001;Bousquet 2008;Adler-Kassner 2008;Adler-Kassner 2012;Ravitch 2013;Scott 2015;Welch and Scott 2016;Adler-Kassner 2017. 4.…”