An open access journal in rhetoric & composition on pedagogy and theory. Publishing articles, interviews, program profiles, retrospectives, & reviews.
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When we ask students to take risks in their writing, what do we show them? Meghan Hancock surveyed 115 faculty about what risk-taking means in their own writing and what they expect from students. Read more in Composition Forum 58: compositionforum.com/issue/5…
In "The Problem with Failure in First-Year Composition," Cynthia Miecznikowski draws on failure research from design, engineering and rhetoric to ask what learning from failure costs students at open-access institutions. Read it in Volume 58: compositionforum.com/issue/5…
We are pleased to announce the publication of Volume 58 of Composition Forum, now available at: compositionforum.com!
This special issue focuses on risk, failure, and the teaching of writing.
We are pleased to announce the publication of Volume 57 of Composition Forum, now available at: compositionforum.com/!
· Four book reviews: Multimodal Composing and Writing Transfer, Threshold Conscripts: Rhetoric and Composition Teaching Assistantships, Translingual Pedagogical Perspectives: Engaging Domestic and International Students in the Composition Classroom, and Mentorship/Methodology
· Four program profiles: the American University of Sharjah Writing Center, the Engineering Physics Program at Chalmers University of Technology in Sweden, the Professional Graduate Diploma in Education in Scotland, and the FYC Program at the University of Central Florida
· Six articles addressing: rhetorical strategies of access-making, qualitative research methods and coding participant drawings, quantitative RAD research, habits of mind in first-year writing, writing transfer and multilingual curricular development, & collaborative assessment
We are pleased to announce the publication of Volume 56 of Composition Forum, now available at: compositionforum.com/.
This issue includes:
· An interview with Ian Barnard on politics and the state of higher education
· A retrospective on “Why Johnny Can’t Write”
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What I'm linking below is the interview from the newest issue of @Comp_Forum between Ben Kuebrich and Ira Shor. If you work in the writing classroom, then this interview is for you. compositionforum.com/issue/5…
This issue includes the following features:
· An interview with Ira Shor
· Seven articles
· Four program profiles
· Five book reviews
Additionally, we’re excited to share our new website (and logo) redesign!
We are pleased to announce the publication of Volume 55 of Composition Forum, now available at: compositionforum.com/!
· An interview
· Ten articles
· Five course designs
Thanks for taking time to read this volume of Composition Forum, and we welcome your suggestions and comments!
We are pleased to announce the publication of Volume 54 of Composition Forum, now available at: compositionforum.com/issue/5….
This special issue on contemplative writing pedagogy is co-edited by Paula Mathieu and Angela Muir. Volume 54 includes the following features:
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“Why Am I Here?”: Exploring Graduate Students’ Academic Writing Anxieties and the Potential for Contemplative and Mindfulness-Based Teaching Practices. Read the open-access study at @Comp_Forum:
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ALT Header of the following article: “Why Am I Here?”: Exploring Graduate Students’ Academic Writing Anxieties and the Potential for Contemplative and Mindfulness-Based Teaching Practices by Anuj Gupta and Susan Miller-Cochran: https://compositionforum.com/issue/54/academic-writing-anxieties.php
Read "Nurturing Distributed Expertise with Social Media in First Year Composition Pedagogy" by Jacob D. Richter (@Richter_Rhetor): compositionforum.com/issue/5…
"In this article, I highlight a social media pedagogy design that supports distributed expertise in a First Year Composition classroom learning community before examining data that demonstrates how social media pedagogies can help nurture environments of distributed expertise"
Check out this amazing audio text project for #writingstudies!
Announcement:
A new resource for #writingstudies #rhetoric #composition. I’ve been working on developing a space for audio texts in writing and rhetoric: audio articles, audio chapters, and audio books.
Read Allison D. Carr's retrospective, "Following Failure," in our new volume:
compositionforum.com/issue/5…