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Find the Best Tools for the Job: Experimenting with Writing Workflows

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Derek Van Ittersum & Tim Lockridge Volume 4 Chapter Description This chapter introduces “writing workflows,” a concept that helps writers examine how tools shape writing processes.* It suggests that writing does not take place solely in the mind, with the tools merely transcribing that activity. Instead, it describes how any experience of writing is shaped […]

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Understanding and Maintaining Your Privacy When Writing with Digital Technologies

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Lindsey C. Kim Volume 4 Chapter Description As our students utilize more networked technologies in their writing, it has become critical that both students and teachers understand the role privacy plays in their digital activity. This chapter aims to help students understand why privacy is an important concept to consider when writing online and to

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What’s That Supposed to Mean? Using Feedback on Your Writing

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Jillian Grauman Volume 4 Chapter Description Providing feedback to students is one of the most challenging parts of a composition instructor’s job (Caswell; Straub, Practice), and making use of that feedback (whether provided by a professor, tutor, or classmate) is just as challenging for students. While research has shown that students prefer feedback that helps

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At Work in the Archives: Place-Based Research and Writing

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Lynée Lewis Gaillet & Jessica Rose Volume 4 Chapter Description This chapter outlines a plan for incorporating primary and archival research into first year writing course designs. Correlating directly with recent college initiatives and composition best practices, archival research asks students to see themselves as experts, engage in rhetorical activism, and take on college-to-career projects.

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The Rhetorical Possibilities of Accessibility

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Rachel Donegan Volume 4 Chapter Description In this chapter, I provide some basic terminology and context for disability and accessibility and discuss how access features not only have direct benefits for a disabled audience, but are beneficial rhetorical bonuses for all writers (nondisabled and disabled).* By emphasizing access in their writing projects, students have the

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Technologies of Trust: Creating Networks of Goodwill for Collaboration

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Lance Cummings, Rin Jackson, & Moriah Yancey Volume 4 Chapter Description Most students dread that fateful “group project,” often for good reasons. Our past experiences with group work sometimes don’t speak well to this kind of project.* But most writing in the 21st century is deeply collaborative and happens mostly in digital spaces. Observing the

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Four Things Social Media Can Teach You about College Writing—and One Thing It Can’t

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Ann N. Amicucci Volume 4 Chapter Description Many students are frequent users of social media, and it’s important to recognize the rich rhetorical activity that happens on apps like Twitter, Instagram, Snapchat, and TikTok. This chapter teaches students how to take rhetorical moves they make on social media and mimic these moves in academic writing,

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The Evolution of Imitation: Building Your Style

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Craig A. Meyer Volume 3 Chapter Description This chapter focuses on incorporating imitation practices into a student’s writing toolbox. By encouraging students to look more rhetorically at writing through imitation, they learn to recognize that language is more dynamic, and they can approach writing tasks with more contemplative thought instead of as a dreaded task.

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Composing the Anthology: An Exercise in Patchwriting

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Christopher Leary Volume 1 Chapter Description A composition teacher shares stories – from inside and outside of the classroom – concerning the dangers and possibilities inherent in “patchwriting.” The article presents examples of patchwriting drawn from poems, anthologies, and prose and argues that it is a useful but underappreciated writing strategy. Alternate Downloads:  You may

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