February 15th, 2010
Composition Forum 21 is now available.
This volume features an interview with Cindy Selfe, and articles focusing on web literacy and on sustainability in composition. CF 21 also includes two Program Profiles describing writing programs at SUNY Binghamton and the University of Minnesota Duluth. In addition, Volume 21 contains three book reviews and a review essay that examines recent books on activist rhetorics.
We thank you for visiting the journal, and we welcome your suggestions and comments about this volume.
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November 8th, 2009
When we published CF 20, we decided to make all content published in the journal open access, using the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike license. I’d like to provide a bit of background on open access, explain how the license we chose works, and offer some reasons for our adoption of it. Read the rest of this entry »
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July 4th, 2009
The newest volume of Composition Forum is now available at the “Current Issue” link above.
This volume features an interview with Gary Olson and three articles focusing on different dimensions of the academic work of writing specialists. CF 20 also includes two Program Profiles describing the first year writing programs at California State University, Fresno and Eastern Michigan University. In addition, Volume 20 contains reviews of three new books in rhetoric and composition.
Thanks for visiting the journal, and we welcome your suggestions and comments about this volume.
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April 28th, 2009
Those of us who direct writing programs recognize how difficult it can be to balance administrative and scholarly work. While we produce a number of in-house publications or internal program documents, we don’t have as many opportunities to frame and present these to our colleagues in the field. The Program Profiles section of Composition Forum provides an opportunity for those of us who engage in various kinds of program administration and curriculum development work to share that work with others in our field at the same time as it provides an opportunity to have that work recognized as scholarship.
As co-editors of the Program Profiles section of the journal, we invite you to submit profiles of your FYC, WAC, undergraduate, or graduate programs in Rhetoric and Composition. Profiles are generally 2,000 to 4,000 words and should include a general description of the program, the theory informing the program, a structural description of the program, institutional constraints, and a section that explains what you’ve learned from your directorship of the program or what you might do differently based on your experience.
To send queries or manuscripts, please contact our Program Profile Editors, Mary Jo Reiff and Anis Bawarshi.
Tags: administration, profile, publication, research, writing program
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March 23rd, 2009
Composition Forum seeks a Book Review Editor to replace the outgoing editor. This editor will be responsible for gathering reviews on books of interest to scholars and practitioners within the field. Editor’s duties will be soliciting reviews, offering editorial feedback to authors, and helping to format reviews for both annual issues. Duties also include maintaining contact with publishers to receive new titles, and ensuring that review authors receive copies of reviewed texts. In the future Composition Forum wishes to review as many new titles as possible within the field and further expand the number of review essays.
Please submit email indicating position, institutional affiliation, and reason for interest to Christian Weisser.
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March 7th, 2009
As part of our ongoing efforts to make Composition Forum more findable, we’ve added the journal to the WAC Clearinghouse Database and checked all similar directories we use to ensure Composition Forum has an entry. If you know of a similar site which should list CF, let us know!
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January 30th, 2009
We are happy to announce the publication of Composition Forum 19, our Spring 2009 issue. This volume features articles by Dan Fraizer, Caleb Corkery, and Nate Kreuter. CF 19 also includes a Program Profile focusing on a team teaching project at West Virginia University. In addition, Volume 19 contains reviews of six new books in rhetoric and composition.
We welcome your suggestions and comments about this volume.
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October 9th, 2008
It is a great pleasure to welcome Mary Jo Reiff to the Composition Forum staff. Mary Jo will join Anis Bawarshi as a Programs Editor, and she will help Anis develop and publish more great Program Profiles in the future. Mary Jo brings to the position her expertise as Director of Composition at the University of Tennessee-Knoxville.
Welcome, Mary Jo!
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July 7th, 2008
We’ve just finished creating Volume 18 of Composition Forum, which contains three essays, two program profiles, and four book reviews. In my completely biased opinion, this is one of our best volumes yet.
I’m also thrilled to announce the appointment of Michelle Ballif as Managing Editor and Anis Bawarshi as Programs Editor. Michelle has been with the journal for several years and has graciously agreed to take on more responsibility, while Anis has just begun working with us. Welcome, Anis!
For more information about the contents of this newest volume and about the changes taking place at CF, please visit our From the Editors page. And don’t forget to bookmark our new location: http://compositionforum.com/
Thanks for your support!
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July 5th, 2008
I’m starting to redirect content from the FAU.edu server to Compositionforum.com. I’ve replaced the all the links on the FAU.edu front page with links to Compostionforum.com. At least for now, issues will live in an “issues” subdirectory. Soon I’ll be creating “soft” redirects from the old issues to the new ones, just noting that we’re in the process of moving. Once we’ve got permanent new URLs (and that depends on software), I’ll make sure-enough redirects.
Lots of automated find and replace today. I’m sure I’ll keep finding little issues to correct here and there…
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