An Autobiography Of The Creative Writing Experience

Overview

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 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.

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