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Disrupting the Center
A Partnership Approach to Writing Across the University
Desegregation State
College Writing Programs after the Civil Rights Movement
Making Matters
Craft, Ethics, and New Materialist Rhetorics
Unlimited Players
The Intersections of Writing Center and Game Studies
Behind the Curtain of Scholarly Publishing
Editors in Writing Studies
Bodies of Knowledge
Embodied Rhetorics in Theory and Practice
Toward an Anti-Capitalist Composition
In Toward an Anti-Capitalist Composition, James Rushing Daniel argues that capitalism is eminently responsible for the entangled catastrophes of the twenty-first century—precarity, economic and racial inequality, the decline of democratic culture, and climate change—and that it must accordingly become a central focus in the teaching of writing.
"A Marvelous Work"
Reading Mormonism in West Africa
Reprogrammable Rhetoric
Critical Making Theories and Methods in Rhetoric and Composition
Our Body of Work
Embodied Administration and Teaching
Our Body of Workinvites administrators and teachers to consider how physical bodies inform everyday work and labor as well as research and administrative practices in writing programs.
Racing Translingualism in Composition
Toward a Race-Conscious Translingualism
Racing Translingualism provides both theoretical and pedagogical reconsiderations of the translingual approach to language diversity by addressing the intersections of race and translingualism.
The Dual Enrollment Kaleidoscope
Reconfiguring Perceptions of First-Year Writing and Composition Studies
Drilled to Write
Becoming a Cadet Writer at a Senior Military College
Violence in the Work of Composition
Recognizing, Intervening, Ameliorating
Focusing on overt and covert violence and bringing attention to the many ways violence inflects and infects the teaching, administration, and scholarship of composition, Violence in the Work of Composition examines both forms of violence and the reciprocal relationships uniting them across the discipline.
Still, the Small Voice
Narrative, Personal Revelation, and the Mormon Folk Tradition
The Material Culture of Writing
The Material Culture of Writing opens up avenues for understanding writing through scholarship in material culture studies.
Designing Multilingual Experiences in Technical Communication
Writing the Classroom
Pedagogical Documents as Rhetorical Genres
Writing the Classroom explores how faculty compose and use pedagogical documents to establish classroom expectations and teaching practices, as well as to articulate the professional identities they perform both inside and outside the classroom.
Changing Conceptions, Changing Practices
Innovating Teaching across Disciplines
Changing Conceptions, Changing Practices demonstrates that it is possible for groups of faculty members to change teaching and learning in radical ways across their programs, despite the current emphasis on efficiency and accountability.
Distant Readings of Disciplinarity
Knowing and Doing in Composition/Rhetoric Dissertations
In Distant Readings of Disciplinarity, Benjamin Miller brings a big data approach to the study of disciplinarity in rhetoric, composition, and writing studies (RCWS) by developing scalable maps of the methods and topics of several thousand RCWS dissertations from 2001 to 2015.
Toward More Sustainable Metaphors of Writing Program Administration
The field of writing program administration has long been a space rich in metaphor. From plate-twirling to fire-extinguishing, parents to dungeon masters, and much more, the work of a WPA extends to horizons unknown. Responding to the constraints of austerity, Toward More Sustainable Metaphors of Writing Program Administration offers new lenses for established WPAs and provides aspiring and early career WPAs with a sense of the range of responsibilities and opportunities in their academic and professional spaces.
Writing on the Wall
Writing Education and Resistance to Isolationism
The first concerted effort of writing studies scholars to interrogate isolationism in the United States, Writing on the Wall reveals how writing teachers—often working directly with students who are immigrants, undocumented, first-generation, international, and students of color—embody ideas that counter isolationism.
Hashtag Activism Interrogated and Embodied
Case Studies on Social Justice Movements
Hashtag Activism Interrogated and Embodied analyzes the ways that hashtags repurpose and reclaim societal narratives, considering how these digital interactions carry over into external spaces and are embodied by both participants and spectators alike.
Writing Centers and Learning Commons
Staying Centered While Sharing Common Ground
Writing Centers and Learning Commons presents program administrators, directors, staff, and tutors with theoretical rationales, experiential journeys, and go-to practical designs and strategies for the many questions involved when writing centers find themselves operating in shared environments.
Composing Place
Digital Rhetorics for a Mobile World
Composing Place takes an innovative approach to engaging with the compositional affordances of mobile technologies.
Unwell Writing Centers
Searching for Wellness in Neoliberal Educational Institutions and Beyond
Unwell Writing Centers focuses on the inroads the wellness industry has made into higher education. Following graduate and undergraduate writing tutors during a particularly stressful period (2016–2019), Genie Nicole Giaimo examines how top-down and bottom-up wellness interventions are received and taken up by workers.
Translingual and Transnational Graduate Education in Rhetoric and Composition
Translingual and Transnational Graduate Education in Rhetoric and Composition investigates the implications of composition studies’ changing terminological and ideological landscape around language and nation for the professionalization of future university writing teachers-scholars.
Strangely Rhetorical
Composing Differently With Novelty Devices
Strangely Rhetorical establishes the groundwork for strangeness as a lens under the broader interdisciplinary umbrella of rhetoric and composition and shares a series of rhetorical devices for practically thinking about how compositions are made unique.
Making Administrative Work Visible
Data-Driven Advocacy for Understanding the Labor of Writing Program Administration
Failing Sideways
Queer Possibilities for Writing Assessment
Failing Sideways is an innovative and fresh approach to assessment that intersects writing studies, educational measurement, and queer rhetorics.