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Volume 56, Fall 2025
Sustaining Collective Actions: Program Assessment During Transitional Moments
Continue reading →: Sustaining Collective Actions: Program Assessment During Transitional MomentsShane A. Wood, Nikolas Gardiakos, Matthew Bryan, Natalie Madruga, Pamela Baker, Joel Schneier, Joel Bergholtz, Emily Proulx, Vee Kennedy, Ricky Finch, Mya Poe, Norbert Elliot, and Sherry Rankins-Robertson Abstract The University of Central Florida’s First-Year Composition Program has sustained its commitment to values-based sustainable development despite a series of significant…
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Volume 56, Fall 2025
“The New Illiteracy”: “Why Johnny Can’t Write” at 50
Continue reading →: “The New Illiteracy”: “Why Johnny Can’t Write” at 50Carl Schlachte The picture shows a young white man, maybe eighteen years old, his face wracked with confusion or frustration, head resting on a fist. The background, with rows of out-of-focus books, suggests he is in a library. Thick brown hair sweeps across the man’s head in the style of…
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Volume 56, Fall 2025
Tracing Transfer: Curriculum Development for Multilingual Writers in First-Year Writing
Continue reading →: Tracing Transfer: Curriculum Development for Multilingual Writers in First-Year WritingYan Li Abstract Over the past two decades, writing transfer theories have significantly influenced curriculum development in first-year writing (FYW) programs across the United States (US). This study examines the theories shaping multilingual curriculum development in FYW by presenting findings from a national survey informed by a transfer-encouraging methodology. Despite…
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Volume 56, Fall 2025
You Have to Take a Stand: An Interview with Ian Barnard
Continue reading →: You Have to Take a Stand: An Interview with Ian BarnardWalter Lucken IV An adequate summation of Professor Ian Barnard’s career in and out of rhetoric and composition studies would require much more than the space allotted. Suffice it to say that from the early 1990s to the present, Barnard, Professor of Rhetoric and Composition in the English Department at…
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Volume 55, Spring 2025
From the Editors: Volume 55
Continue reading →: From the Editors: Volume 55Christian Weisser, Jackie Hoermann-Elliot, Gavin P. Johnson, and Daniel Ernst Readers of Composition Forum may have noticed a pause in our regular volumes; we postponed a Fall 2024 release while we were making some modifications to the journal. First and foremost, we have upgraded the design and functionality of the…
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Volume 55, Spring 2025
Review of Michal Reznizki and David T. Coad’s Dynamic Activities for First-Year Composition: 96 Ways to Immerse, Inspire, and Captivate Students
Continue reading →: Review of Michal Reznizki and David T. Coad’s Dynamic Activities for First-Year Composition: 96 Ways to Immerse, Inspire, and Captivate StudentsSandie Friedman Reznizki, Michal, and David T. Coad, editors. Dynamic Activities for First-Year Composition: 96 Ways to Immerse, Inspire, and Captivate Students. National Council of Teachers of English, 2023. A May 2022 New York Times article featured a graphic with the instantly recognizable design of the Harvard crest, but in…
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Volume 55, Spring 2025
Review of Abby A. Knoblauch and Marie E. Moeller’s Bodies of Knowledge: Embodied Rhetorics in Theory and Practice
Continue reading →: Review of Abby A. Knoblauch and Marie E. Moeller’s Bodies of Knowledge: Embodied Rhetorics in Theory and PracticeGrace Boulanger Knoblauch, Abby A., and Marie E. Moeller, editors. Bodies of Knowledge: Embodied Rhetorics in Theory and Practice. Utah State University Press/University Press of Colorado, 2022. Bodies of Knowledge: Embodied Rhetorics in Theory and Practice, edited by A. Abby Knoblauch and Marie E. Moeller, is an exceptional survey book…
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Volume 55, Spring 2025
Review of Heather Ostman, Howard Tinberg, and Danizete Martínez’s Teaching Writing Through the Immigrant Story
Continue reading →: Review of Heather Ostman, Howard Tinberg, and Danizete Martínez’s Teaching Writing Through the Immigrant StoryYuni Kim Ostman, Heather, Howard Tinberg, and Danizete Martínez, eds. Teaching Writing Through the Immigrant Story. Utah State University Press/University Press of Colorado, 2021. Building on a growing body of scholarship that advocates for student-centered approaches in composition pedagogy, Heather Ostman, Howard Tinberg, and Danizete Martínez advance a narrative-based framework…
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Volume 55, Spring 2025
Review of Lynn C. Lewis’s Pivotal Strategies: Claiming Writing Studies as Discipline
Continue reading →: Review of Lynn C. Lewis’s Pivotal Strategies: Claiming Writing Studies as DisciplineMarie Pruitt Lewis, Lynn C. Pivotal Strategies: Claiming Writing Studies as Discipline. Utah State University Press, 2024. Disciplinarity has long been a concern of writing studies scholars. In an attempt to solidify the boundaries and status of the discipline, scholars have defined keywords, outlined threshold concepts, identified foundational texts, conducted…
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