Composition Forum

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: https://t.co/785pmU5ZYO

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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: https://t.co/8gCazAA6Ns

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We are pleased to announce the publication of Volume 58 of Composition Forum, now available at: https://t.co/IhMPJ2iYoC!

This special issue focuses on risk, failure, and the teaching of writing.

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In solidarity with CCCC

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We are pleased to announce the publication of Volume 57 of Composition Forum, now available at: https://t.co/mAEfK3WDnQ!

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·  A symposium on Critical Race Theory

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We are pleased to announce the publication of Volume 56 of Composition Forum, now available at: https://t.co/mAEfK3WDnQ.

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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· 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

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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. https://t.co/MtxH7gCoA6

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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!

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We are pleased to announce the publication of Volume 55 of Composition Forum, now available at: https://t.co/mAEfK3WDnQ!

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· 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!

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We are pleased to announce the publication of Volume 54 of Composition Forum, now available at: https://t.co/5vvXJLqd1c.

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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🚨Publication Alert 🚨
“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:
https://t.co/AfA7IgdWgK
#AcademicTwitter #TeamRhetoric (1/n)

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Read "Nurturing Distributed Expertise with Social Media in First Year Composition Pedagogy" by Jacob D. Richter (@Richter_Rhetor): https://t.co/PhrpfiVlRF

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"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"

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Check out this amazing audio text project for #writingstudies!

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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.

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Read Allison D. Carr's retrospective, "Following Failure," in our new volume:
https://t.co/4TCmj6BzWO

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"What I did not understand then, but which I cannot unsee now, is how much that argument presumes and promotes a neoliberal worldview that for all of its subversive artifice simply reinscribes preexisting channels for privilege and exclusion/oppression."
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