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Transfer in an Urban Writing Ecology
This book combines student writing, personal reflection, and academic analysis to urge, document, and enact more transfer-conducive writing ecologies. It examines the last century of community college/university relations in composition studies, asserting that community college faculty have long been important but marginalized participants in disciplinary and professional spaces. That marginalization perpetuates class- and race-based inequities in educational outcomes. The book argues that countering such inequities requires reimagining our disciplinary relations, both nationally and locally. It presents findings from research into community college transfer student writing experiences at the University of Utah and narrates the first three years of program development with colleagues at SLCC, discussing the emergent, sometimes unexpected outcomes of our partnerships. The book offers our experiences as an extended case study of how reimagining local disciplinary relations can challenge pervasive academic hierarchies, counter structural inequities, and expand educational opportunities for students.
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Toward a ‘More-Than-Digital’ AI Literacy: Reimagining Agency and Authorship in the Postdigital Era with ChatGPT
This paper explores the potential of a ‘more-than-digital’ view toward agency and authorship in the postdigital era. By examining students’ narratives of their interactions with ChatGPT, this research contributes to the ongoing scholarly conversation on the relationship between humans and AI in educational contexts. This study explores college undergraduate students’ perceptions of agency and authorship through an AI-assisted research writing project. Employing a narrative analysis, this paper argues that students adopt a fair position toward their use of ChatGPT during the writing process, a standpoint that allows for addressing the tendency to assign objects’ or machines’ influence solely to human perceptions and the issue of granting excessive authority to objects or machines. We conclude this paper with pedagogical implications for fostering a ‘more-than-digital’ approach to critical AI literacy. Moreover, the paper offers implications for the future research of AI-assisted writing projects, with a focus on the thoughtful integration of AI technologies to foster critical literacy among college students.
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Air & light & time & space : how successful academics write
This book is a guide for writers aspiring to become more productive and take greater pleasure in their craft. Helen Sword interviewed one hundred academics worldwide about their writing background and practices. Relatively few were trained as writers, she found, and yet all have developed strategies to thrive in their publish-or-perish environment. Sword identifies four cornerstones that anchor any successful writing practice: Behavioral habits of discipline and persistence; Artisanal habits of craftsmanship and care; Social habits of collegiality and collaboration; and Emotional habits of positivity and pleasure. Building on this \"BASE,\" she illuminates the emotional complexity of the writing process and exposes the lack of writing support typically available to early-career academics. She also lays to rest the myth that academics must produce safe, conventional prose or risk professional failure. The successful writers profiled here tell stories of intellectual passions indulged, disciplinary conventions subverted, and risk-taking rewarded. Grounded in empirical research and focused on sustainable change, Air & Light & Time & Space offers a customizable blueprint for refreshing personal habits and creating a collegial environment where all writers can flourish.-- Provided by publisher.
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Exploring the relationship between college students’ writing anxiety and the pedagogical use of online resources
This study reports on how the use of online resources based on systemic functional linguistics (SFL) impacted college students’ emotional alignment with writing practices. Through qualitative analyses of in-class discussions, students’ interviews and reflections, as well as their written pieces gathered in a Chinese university, the case study shows that the students were able to overcome their fears with writing construction associated with their dearth of effective knowledge, albeit through a zigzag trajectory. More importantly, they could utilize the knowledge imparted through online resources, actively and confidently participating in unpacking written discourse and effectively constructing their own writing. The study concludes the importance of harnessing online resources that are effectively designed and linguistically grounded. It sheds light on the role of SFL as a linguistic technique to alleviate students’ anxieties while offering them knowledge needed for effective written communication.
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WPAs in transition : navigating educational leadership positions
\"A wide variety of professional and personal perspectives about the costs, benefits, struggles, and triumphs experienced by writing program administrators transitioning into and out of leadership positions. Contributors recount insightful anecdotes and provide a scholarly context in which WPAs can share their experiences\"--Provided by publisher.
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A Short History of Writing Instruction
This newly revised Thirtieth Anniversary edition provides a robust scholarly introduction to the history of writing instruction in the West from Ancient Greece to the present-day United States.
It preserves the legacy of writing instruction from antiquity to contemporary times with a unique focus on the material, educational, and institutional context of the Western rhetorical tradition. Its longitudinal approach enables students to track the recurrence over time of not only specific teaching methods, but also major issues such as social purpose, writing as power, the effect of technologies, orthography, the rise of vernaculars, writing as a force for democratization, and the roles of women in rhetoric and writing instruction. Each chapter provides pedagogical tools including a Glossary of Key Terms and a Bibliography for Further Study. In this edition, expanded coverage of twenty-first-century issues includes Writing Across the Curriculum pedagogy, pedagogy for multilingual writers, and social media.
A Short History of Writing Instruction is an ideal text for undergraduate and graduate courses in writing studies, rhetoric and composition, and the history of education.
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Tell Me Friends. Contemporary Stories and Plays of Tanzania
This third volume of Tell Me, Friends collects stories and plays written by students and staff at the University of Dar es Salaam between 2006 and 2008. The stories in the collection are: Our Man by Saida Yahya-Othman; The Window Seat by Benjamin Branoff; The Concealed Project by Zuhura Badru; The Total Crisis by Simon Mlundi; and Testimony by Emmanuel Lema. The plays are: The Monster by Anna Chikoti; Love is... by Kimberly McLeod; A Tanzanian Rooftop by Benjamin Branoff; Judges on Trial by Frowin Paul Nyoni; The Route to Success by Yunus Ng'umbi; and The Mop by Vincensia Shule. Read and share these stories and plays, and enjoy how they depict some of the social-economic and political factors that condition and shape our societies today.
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