Babb & Beare aren't pretending to be neutral—they've taken stances in their classrooms and programs. But as editors, they're holding space for the full spectrum. They spent most of 2025 building a generative AI policy they're already calling "an evolving document."

The editors' introduction to CS 53.2 considered calling itself an AI hallucination. It references Terminator 2, cites a McSweeney's satire, and catalogs every AI construct in science fiction. Underneath the humor, it's doing something genuinely difficult. 🧵

Researched, drafted, reviewed, revised, edited, and published—by people who believe the field's questions matter. Which piece are you starting with? #CompositionStudies #RhetComp #WePersistAllTheSame

Six book reviews covering AI and writing, feminist technical communication, systemic bias in STEM, critical language awareness, DJ rhetoric, and multimodal transfer.

Four "Where We Are" essays on teaching writing in this moment. Campus protests, institutional erosion, fire and persistence, and finding the ocean. These are hard reads. They're supposed to be.

Two course designs rethinking FYC from the ground up—one built on critical AI literacy, the other on third places and composing from desire.

Six articles: generative AI as rhetorical memory, Black women's mentorship, an international GTA navigating the classroom, scrap writing as invention, dual enrollment pedagogy, and pandemic-era sustainability.

23 contributors. 19 sections. 1 issue. The table of contents for Composition Studies 53.2 is here. Here's what's inside—and who made it. 🧵

These aren't four separate debates. They're a field reckoning with what comes next. Six articles. Two course designs. Four field-level responses. Read the full issue at compstudiesjournal.com. #CompositionStudies #RhetComp #WePersistAllTheSame

04 — Composition as academic discipline / composition as political obligation. Four scholars respond to what the field owes the present moment. They don't agree with each other.