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Volume 55, Spring 2025
Review of Annette Vee, Tim Laquintano, and Carly Schnitzler’s TextGenEd: Teaching with Text Generation Technologies
Continue reading →: Review of Annette Vee, Tim Laquintano, and Carly Schnitzler’s TextGenEd: Teaching with Text Generation TechnologiesHua Wang Vee, Annette, Tim Laquintano, and Carly Schnitzler, editors. TextGenEd: Teaching with Text Generation Technologies. The WAC Clearinghouse, 2023. https://doi.org/10.37514/TWR-J.2023.1.1.02. The rapid rise of AI, especially since the launch of ChatGPT in November 2022, has intensified debates about the role of AI tools in higher education. While some educators…
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Volume 55, Spring 2025
A Career-Span Writing Program for Researchers: CSU Writes Program Description—Why and How CSU Writes
Continue reading →: A Career-Span Writing Program for Researchers: CSU Writes Program Description—Why and How CSU WritesKristina Quynn Abstract CSU Writes supports researchers as writers across their career span at Colorado State University. The program emerged in an already rich writing ecosystem that includes a Writing Center and the WAC Clearinghouse. Since 2015, CSU Writes has helped thousands of faculty, postdoctoral fellows, and graduate students write…
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Volume 55, Spring 2025
Recognizing and Articulating Relationships: The Program for Writing Across Campus at the University of Washington, Seattle
Continue reading →: Recognizing and Articulating Relationships: The Program for Writing Across Campus at the University of Washington, SeattleMegan Callow Abstract Discipline-linked writing programs can pose challenges for administration and enrollment, but they can also offer valuable opportunities for students to learn more deeply about writing and communication in particular disciplinary contexts. This program profile features one enduring discipline-linked writing program at the University of Washington; to describe…
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Volume 55, Spring 2025
Curricular Success Amid Labor Instability: A WAC Program’s First Five Years
Continue reading →: Curricular Success Amid Labor Instability: A WAC Program’s First Five YearsKimberly K. Gunter, Lindy E. Briggette, Mary Laughlin, Tiffany Wilgar, and Nadia Francine Zamin Abstract In this program profile, we recount the development of Fairfield University’s award-winning WAC/WID program. We specifically describe the roles of labor and disciplinarity in building “shock-absorbent” WAC program architectures that enable WAC programs to persist.…
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Volume 55, Spring 2025
Strategic Alliances and Programmatic Change: The University of Tennessee’s Rethinking of the Rhetoric and Writing PhD Comprehensive Exam
Continue reading →: Strategic Alliances and Programmatic Change: The University of Tennessee’s Rethinking of the Rhetoric and Writing PhD Comprehensive ExamMegan Von Bergen, Kelly Sauskojus, Amber Kent-Johnson, and Lisa King Abstract The article addresses the process of making significant programmatic changes to the PhD exams in the Rhetoric, Writing, and Linguistics division in the Department of English at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. Drawing from the various experiences and positionalities…
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Volume 55, Spring 2025
Troubling Teaching for Transfer: Turning (Again) to Rhetoric and Process
Continue reading →: Troubling Teaching for Transfer: Turning (Again) to Rhetoric and ProcessManny Piña and Susan Wolff-Murphy Abstract This article examines the complexity with teaching for transfer (TFT) as curricular content through a qualitative study of how TFT was experienced by first-year writing (FYW) students at a regional, Hispanic-Serving public institution. Our analysis of reflective student writing supports previous studies that show…
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Volume 55, Spring 2025
Charting the Currents: A Deep Dive into the Writing Studies Job Market for Early Career Scholar-Teachers
Continue reading →: Charting the Currents: A Deep Dive into the Writing Studies Job Market for Early Career Scholar-TeachersAdam Phillips Abstract This article focuses on the academic job market for the field of Writing Studies primarily using data from 2021–2022 to provide insight for early career scholar-teachers. This study looks at the total jobs available for the 2021–2022 job market compared to previous years, the number of tenure-track…
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Volume 55, Spring 2025
“I Couldn’t Have Done This Without You”: Encouraging Horizontal Mentoring in Graduate Degree Programs
Continue reading →: “I Couldn’t Have Done This Without You”: Encouraging Horizontal Mentoring in Graduate Degree ProgramsCaitlin Martin and Mandy Olejnik Abstract Composition, rhetoric, and writing studies (CRWS) as a field has historically recognized the importance of mentoring for graduate students, but there can be a disconnect between learning theory and how mentoring occurs in practice. In this article, we argue for a more systematic approach…
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Volume 55, Spring 2025
Visual Mapping: (Re)Presenting Students’ Lived Experiences
Continue reading →: Visual Mapping: (Re)Presenting Students’ Lived ExperiencesJeaneen S. Canfield Abstract There are multi-faceted, invisible layers within a writer that impact the writer’s processes. Since these layers are not necessarily brought to conscious awareness or made visible, however, the writing process contains unintentional influencers. I forward these notions to argue for intentional pedagogical practices that not only…
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Volume 55, Spring 2025
Style and Substance: Templates for Academic Writing as Frames for Invention
Continue reading →: Style and Substance: Templates for Academic Writing as Frames for InventionEmily Barrow DeJeu Abstract While templates for academic writing, like those offered in the popular textbook They Say/I Say, have been embraced by some, others still question the extent to which an emphasis on form comes at the expense of substance. But ancient rhetoricians offer a theory of rhetoric that…
