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An Autobiography of the Creative Writing Experience: How Metacognition in the Five Meta-Learning Domains Informs Creative Writing
An Autobiography of the Creative Writing Experience How Metacognition in the Five MetaLearning Domains Informs Creative Writing Author:Shelley Robinson This book is a self-analysis of Shelley Robinson?s own act of creative writing. In a (modified) think-aloud protocol, Robinson metacognitively reflects upon her own act of writing, working in three rhetorical forms of writing: 1) a poem (imaginative); 2) a journal entry (expressive); and 3) an article (transactional). During... more » this research, she expands the concept of metacognition to become ?meta-processing? in order to better communicate her reflexive experience. She broadens metacognition (thinking) to include four other meta-learning domains: (meta-conative [motivational], meta-affective [feeling], meta-spiritual [inspirational]) and meta-kinaesthetic [body connection]). As well, there appear to be ideas about writing that are representative of both process and post-process writing (and related) theories. These contrasting schools of thought about writing do not appear to be mutually exclusive in her encounters with text and in the writing and reflections of other published writers. This research is a work that considers many theories of writing and resonates with other writers.« less