An Autobiography of the Creative Writing Experience

This book is a self-analysis of Shelley Robinson'sown act of creative writing. In a (modified) think-aloud protocol Robinson metacognitively reflects upon her own act of writingworking 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 ofmetacognition to become meta-processing in order to bettercommunicate 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 [bodyconnection]). As well there appear to be ideas about writing that are representative of both process and post-processwriting (and related) theories. These contrasting schools ofthought about writing do not appear to be mutually exclusive in herencounters with text and in the writing and reflections of otherpublished writers. This research is a work that considers manytheories of writing and resonates with other writers.