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Vol. 52 of Composition Forum now available!

Posted by – December 4, 2023

Dear Colleagues, 

We are pleased to announce the publication of Volume 52 of Composition Forum, now available at: https://compositionforum.com/issue/52/.

This issue includes the following features:

·       An interview on play and mindfulness with Jackie Rhodes

·       A retrospective on Janet Emig’s The Composing Processes of Twelfth Graders and the “composing aloud” method

·       Six articles addressing topics including mêtis in the composition classroom, circulation and virality, narrative writing assignments, peer feedback and transfer, graduate student instructors engaging in reflective writing, and the impact of a custom common textbook in FYW

·       Two program profiles describing the English Language Learner Writing Center (ELLWC) at Miami University and the Science Communication (SciComm) Undergraduate Writing Minor at the University of California, Santa Barbara

·       Three book reviews: Behind the Curtain of Scholarly Publishing: Editors in Writing Studies (Giberson, Schoen, and Weisser, 2022), Our Body of Work: Embodied Administration and Teaching (Nicolas and Sicari, 2022), and Toward an Anti-Capitalist Composition (Rushing, 2022)

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Vol. 51 of Composition Forum now available!

Posted by – May 9, 2023

Dear Colleagues, 

We are pleased to announce the publication of Volume 51 of Composition Forum, now available at: https://www.compositionforum.com/issue/51/.

This issue includes the following features:

·       Six articles addressing topics including interest convergence at Hispanic-Serving Institutions, graduate student mentorship, writing transfer, transdisciplinary collaboration, spatial metaphors of transfer, and attention to language.   

·       Two program profiles describing the Rhetoric and Composition minor at the College of the Holy Cross and the First-Year Composition program at the University of Central Florida.

·       Three book reviews: PARS in Practice: More Resources and Strategies for Online Writing Instructors (Borgman and McArdle, 2021), Privacy Matters: Conversations about Surveillance within and beyond the Classroom (Beck and Hutchinson Campos, 2021), Reading and Writing Instruction in the Twenty-First Century: Recovering and Transforming the Pedagogy of Robert Scholes (Carillo, 2021).

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Vol. 50 of Composition Forum now available!

Posted by – December 16, 2022

Dear Colleagues, 

We are pleased to announce the publication of Volume 50 of Composition Forum, now available at: https://compositionforum.com/issue/50/.

This issue includes the following features:

·       A retrospective on the fifty-year anniversary of Donald M. Murray’s “Teach Writing as a Process Not Product”

·       Six articles addressing topics including mindfulness and metacognition, emotion and multimodal composing, responding for transfer, multimodal pedagogy for multilingual students, a trauma-informed approach to writing program administration, and self-efficacy

·       Two program profiles describing the Writing Center at Southern University’s Baton Rouge campus and the Rhetorics, Communication, and Information Design (RCID) PhD program at Clemson University

·       Six book reviews: The Hidden Inequities of Labor-Based Contract Grading (Carillo, 2021), Rhetorics of Overcoming: Rewriting Narratives of Disability and Accessibility in Writing Studies (Hitt, 2021), Race, Rhetoric, and Research Methods (Lockett, Ruiz, Sanchez, Carter, 2021), Teaching Critical Reading and Writing in the Era of Fake News (Carillo and Horning, 2020), Composition and Big Data (Licastro and Miller, 2021), Literacy and Pedagogy in an Age of Misinformation and Disinformation (Lockhart, Glascott, Warnick, Parrish, Lewis, 2021)

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Vol. 49 of Composition Forum now available!

Posted by – September 15, 2022

We are pleased to announce the publication of Volume 49 of Composition Forum, a special issue on the discourse-based interview guest edited by Neil Baird and Bradley Dilger. You can access the special issue here: https://compositionforum.com/issue/49/.

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Vol. 48 of Composition Forum now available!

Posted by – May 11, 2022

Dear colleagues,

We are pleased to announce the publication of Volume 48 of Composition Forum, now available at: https://compositionforum.com/issue/48/.

This issue includes the following features:

·       An interview with Asao B. Inoue and Mya Poe

·       Six articles addressing topics including disability and accessibility, problem-exploring in first-year writing, hybrid and online peer review, work-integrated learning and writing transfer, long-term writing development, and gestural listening

·       A program profile describing the Faculty Writing Fellows program at Curry College

·       Two book reviews: Institutional Literacies: Engaging Academic IT Contexts for Writing and Communication (Selber, 2020), English Studies Online: Programs, Practices, and Possibilities (Banks and Spangler, 2021)

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Vol. 46 of Composition Forum now available!

Posted by – May 6, 2021

Colleagues,

We are pleased to announce the publication of Volume 46 of Composition Forum, now available at: http://compositionforum.com/.

This issue includes the following features:

  • An interview with Victor Villanueva
  • Six articles addressing topics including writing prompts and faculty expectations, graduate teacher-scholars’ understandings of translingual pedagogy, reflective writing, transmodal-translingual approaches, Teaching for Transfer (TFT), and student retention and persistence
  • Two program profiles describing writing programs at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee and Burapha University in Thailand
  • Three book reviews: Performing Antiracist Pedagogy in Rhetoric, Writing, and Communication (Condon and Young, 2017), Situating Writing Processes (Rule, 2019), Transforming Ethos: Place and the Material in Rhetoric and Writing (Carlo, 2020)

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Vol. 45 of Composition Forum now available!

Posted by – January 12, 2021

Colleagues, 

We are pleased to announce the publication of Volume 45 of Composition Forum, now available at: http://compositionforum.com/.

This issue includes the following features:

  • An interview with Íde O’Sullivan, a founder of the Republic of Ireland’s first Writing Centre at the University of Limerick (UL)
  • A retrospective on Ann E. Berthoff’s legacy and Keith Rhodes’ unpublished “Audit of a Profession”
  • Six articles addressing topics including Writing about Writing (WAW), feedback on grammar, writing teachers’ identities, feminist rhetorical frameworks, dissertation boot camps, and disciplinary expertise
  • Three program profiles describing writing programs at Roger Williams University, Georgia State University, and the University of Arizona
  • Three book reviews: Transnational Literacy Autobiographies as Translingual Writing (Canagarajah, 2019), Dreads and Open Mouths: Living/Teaching/Writing Queerly (Rallin, 2019), Conceptions of Literacy: Graduate Instructors and the Teaching of First-Year Composition (Brewer, 2020)

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Vol. 44 of Composition Forum now available!

Posted by – August 24, 2020

We are pleased to announce the publication of Volume 44 of Composition Forum, now available at: http://compositionforum.com. Volume 44, “Promoting Social Justice for Multilingual Writers on College Campuses,” is a special issue with guest editors Norah Fahim, Jennifer Johnson, Eunjeong Lee, and Brooke Schreiber.

This special issue includes the following features:

  • An interview with Gail Shuck, the Coordinator of English Language Support Programs for Boise State University
  • Six articles addressing topics including translation, antiracist and translingual writing pedagogies, linguistic social justice, multilingualism and accessibility, self-reflection and compassion, and writing centers
  • Four program profiles describing writing programs at Texas A&M University-San Antonio, Humboldt State University, Michigan State University, and Northeastern University
  • A book review of Writing Assessment, Social Justice, and the Advancement of Opportunity (Poe, Inoue, and Elliot, 2018)

We hope you will read this volume of Composition Forum, and we welcome your suggestions and comments! If you’d like to propose or guest-edit a special issue, please contact Jody Shipka.

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Vol. 43 of Composition Forum now available!

Posted by – April 29, 2020

We are pleased to announce the publication of Volume 43 of Composition Forum, now available at: http://compositionforum.com

This volume includes the following features:

  • An interview with Lad Tobin, associate professor in the English department at Boston College
  • Six articles addressing topics including visual literacy and collaborative instruction, interdisciplinary interactions in WAC/WID, source instruction, voice in writing, research on metacognitive activities and student athletes, and technology professional development
  • Two program profiles describing writing programs at Texas Woman’s University and at University of Tennessee at Chattanooga
  • Three reviews of recent books in rhetoric and composition

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Vol 42 of Composition Forum now out!

Posted by – January 3, 2020

We are pleased to announce the publication of Volume 42 of Composition Forum, now available at: http://compositionforum.com

This volume includes the following features:

  • An interview with Diana George, professor emerita at both Virginia Tech and Michigan Tech
  • Six articles addressing topics including writing transfer research, structure and design in FYW, Canadian WAC programs, writing instruction in the U.S. military, and graduate students’ first experiences teaching writing
  • Two program profiles describing writing programs at Moravian College and at Texas Christian University
  • Four reviews of recent books in rhetoric and composition

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