Knowledge Commons | Rhetoric and Composition | Activity https://hcommons.org/groups/rhetoric-and-composition/ Activity feed for the group, Rhetoric and Composition. Sat, 04 Apr 2026 07:37:02 -0400 https://buddypress.org/?v=10.6.0 en-US 30 hourly 2 2cfcd64b01de7faeaed424576cdd08c4 Katja Thieme deposited First-Year International Students and the Language of Indigenous Studies in the group Rhetoric and Composition https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1902005/ Fri, 18 Oct 2024 03:00:16 -0400 We advocate for the inclusion of Indigenous studies within first-year writing and academic English courses, particularly those taught to multilingual, international students. We argue that asking international students to learn about local and international Indigenous issues productively intersects with coursework in academic English. Our…[Read more]

]]> 0 fd8334f2d2e50e60114fa46b1925bba9 Rosanna Cantavella deposited Inventari dels rims acordants i diccionals en Jordi de Sant Jordi in the group Rhetoric and Composition https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1889657/ Thu, 20 Jun 2024 03:01:49 -0400 This .ods spreadsheet collects all acordant and diccional rhymes of the preserved poetry of Jordi de Sant Jordi. This inventory has been udertaken by Rosanna Cantavella (Universitat de València-Clare Hall University of Cambridge), and interpreted as a paper for the symposion "'Tots jorns aprench e desaprench ensemps': 600 anys de Jordi de Sant…[Read more]

]]> 0 89db232595a94fa34be69fca11326cdf Haris C. Adhikari deposited Midway Approach to English Language (Education) and Literature in Nepal: A Decolonial Need in the group Rhetoric and Composition https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1889009/ Wed, 12 Jun 2024 03:00:25 -0400 This is a research-based, in-depth book chapter that primarily covers debates and critical challenges surrounding the decolonial turn in English language (education) and literature in Nepal. Alongside, it follows issues of relevance of different varieties of English and English as a medium of instruction, rationales for multi-tiered English…[Read more]

]]> 0 4c7035839de3b6247512a7457e68d71b Ryan Randall deposited Student Achievement Unlocked! The Effectiveness of Badging in Community College Library Instruction in the group Rhetoric and Composition https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1885876/ Sat, 11 May 2024 03:00:30 -0400 In this study, we assess differences in student performance between community college students who had and had not participated in our library’s “Research Basics” instructional badging program. We combine quantitative and qualitative assessment of student performance.

When given prompts for two hypothetical research assignments, students selec…[Read more]

]]> 0 9b24fd1ed054025d652ea1a0aecd5589 William Hart-Davidson deposited Mixing and Mastering Genre Signals: Generative AI, Writing, and the Near Future of Writing Technologies in the group Rhetoric and Composition https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1880296/ Fri, 22 Mar 2024 03:00:52 -0400 Keynote Lecture for Global Digital Humanities Symposium

In this talk, I offer a perspective on generative AI applications and the large language models at the heart of these informed by theory and research from digital writing studies. My goal is to offer an explanation of the affordances and limits of LLMs, especially those that rely on a…[Read more]

]]> 0 9e28d3e316caecbb4604e73004695e03 Haris C. Adhikari deposited Nepali Trishankus in America: An Intersectional Rhetorical Reading of The In-Betweeners in the group Rhetoric and Composition https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1879333/ Wed, 13 Mar 2024 03:02:59 -0400 This essay involves an intersectional rhetorical reading of Nepali American author Khem K. Aryal's The In-Betweeners (2023), which is a collection of thirteen gripping stories of Nepali diasporas in America. Marking a clear shift in both nature and presentation of stories of Nepali diasporas, the book presents a tapestry of diasporic hearts and…[Read more]

]]> 0 74048e34a45f23d187ffe413b76d5889 Katja Thieme deposited From language to algorithm: trans and non‑binary identities in research on facial and gender recognition in the group Rhetoric and Composition https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1878946/ Fri, 08 Mar 2024 03:01:27 -0500 We assess the state of thinking about gender identities in computer vision through an analysis of how research papers in gender and facial recognition are designed, what claims they make about trans and non-binary people, what values they espouse, and what they describe as ongoing challenges for the field. In our corpus of 50 research papers, the…[Read more]

]]> 0 71cbe479c61c4c1301efd6a8f5f4ce81 Vanessa Ruccolo started the topic Call for Participants: First-Year Writing Instructors of ESL Chinese Students in the discussion Rhetoric and Composition https://hcommons.org/groups/rhetoric-and-composition/forum/topic/call-for-participants-first-year-writing-instructors-of-esl-chinese-students/ Mon, 19 Feb 2024 19:05:56 -0500 Hello!

I am reaching out to you as an instructor of English at Virginia Tech who is also working on her Ph.D. I am seeking instructors of first-year writing for my study on non-native English-speaking (NNES) Chinese international students and their experiences teaching this population. I am curious to understand the experiences and thoughts of…[Read more]

]]> 114867af4b75bbf3ecfaedadeb6908f4 Shakil Rabbi started the topic CFP for LSL Sponsored Session for MLA 2024: Feelings for Our Languages in the discussion Rhetoric and Composition via email https://hcommons.org/groups/rhetoric-and-composition/forum/topic/cfp-for-lsl-sponsored-session-for-mla-2024-feelings-for-our-languages/ Tue, 24 Jan 2023 20:26:07 -0500 Languages are primary sites of emotional and ideological development. This
guaranteed sponsored roundtable invites topics on how our feelings for
languages play out in aesthetics, cultures, rhetorics, writings, etc.
Perspectives of graduate students and early career scholars especially
encouraged. Please submit a 250-word abstract and brief bio to…[Read more]

]]> 1dbebdf081ccab56a38458033a1edcbb Katja Thieme deposited A Play on Occlusion: Uptake of Letters to the University President in the group Rhetoric and Composition https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1827915/ Sat, 31 Dec 2022 02:23:50 -0500 Occlusion is most commonly presented as an aspect of certain genres: occluded genres. Here, occlusion is proposed as a property of the processes by which genres are taken up. While routine use of genres creates expectations around when the genre’s uptake is commonly occluded, such expected practice can be subverted by deliberate disclosure. O…[Read more]

]]> 0 057200a079867b51e51dc706e779a7ed Jessica A. Hutchins, Ph.D. deposited Tailoring Scientific Communications for Audience and Research Narrative in the group Rhetoric and Composition https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1783873/ Sun, 12 Jun 2022 02:24:43 -0400 For success in research careers, scientists must be able to communicate their research questions, findings, and significance to both expert and nonexpert audiences. Scientists commonly disseminate their research using specialized communication products such as research articles, grant proposals, poster presentations, and scientific talks. The…[Read more]

]]> 0 79a0dd0ffe8c12b9e548eb34f1fdee73 Jaix Chaix deposited The Medium/Message Is The Message: Intersemiotic Complementarity in James Hogg's The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a (Justified) Sinner in the group Rhetoric and Composition https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1782567/ Thu, 26 May 2022 02:24:24 -0400 This semiotic analysis identifies and characterizes how textual, compositional, and mathematical resources have been strategically articulated to project intersemiotic complementarity in the book The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner; Written by Himself: With A Detail of Curious Traditionary Facts, And Other Evidence, By The…[Read more]

]]> 0 c4f1d25d5138b0a697bad8b89be85dab Terry Carter deposited Pedagogical Reflections: Presentation and Contextualization of Three Online Course Syllabi in the group Rhetoric and Composition https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1764375/ Sun, 02 Jan 2022 02:23:59 -0500 This article presents a syllabus copy for the following online courses: (1) Survey of American Literature, (2) Survey of African American Literature, and (3) Workplace Writing. The article contextualizes the congruent syllabi grading components for a target audience of teachers who may be looking for ideas to assist in development of online courses.

]]> 0 d4b7e50ce8bc88fd401f92fa9c695286 Jessica A. Hutchins, Ph.D. deposited What is Identity? A Digital Anthology by Honors Students at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville in the group Rhetoric and Composition https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1761638/ Thu, 16 Dec 2021 02:24:49 -0500 This digital anthology was created by students in Honors 120: Questions and the Spirit of Inquiry, taught by Dr. Jessica A. Hutchins at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville. The course explores the question “What Is Identity?” through perspectives from the humanities, sciences, arts, and the students’ own lived experience. Students worke…[Read more]

]]> 0 5a881c4ea0e7a2c785ac9f50f33f4319 Terry Carter deposited Exploring the Possibilities of Digital Scholarship for Faculty Performance in the group Rhetoric and Composition https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1721215/ Fri, 01 Jan 2021 02:23:50 -0500 This article shares the author's exploratory journey as a senior professor eager to understand and to showcase digital scholarship during periods of faculty performance evaluations. In 2019, a previous article was submitted to this digital repository using a similar exploratory narrative; however, this article differs from the previous submission…[Read more]

]]> 0 bf5b180c33a85d9040c935aad8376f74 Robin Rolfhamre deposited ‘Caprice de chaconne’ (1671): Symmetry and proportions in Francesco Corbetta’s work for Baroque guitar in the group Rhetoric and Composition https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1695116/ Fri, 03 Jul 2020 16:25:54 -0400 For performers of Early Music, there is an everlasting quest to unveil new perspectives on a historically distant repertoire in search of new ways of performing and understanding the music. This is true for all performers of Early Music, including Baroque guitarists. A currently very popular performance piece is Francesco Corbetta’s ‘Caprice de…[Read more]

]]> 0 14b5b9d00345601f5697c5f4c1d638f9 Mary Carruth created the doc Job Positions: Imminent Deadline, Feb 29 in the group Rhetoric and Composition https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1679466/ Thu, 27 Feb 2020 00:00:05 -0500 953a2883a2b7c8aa2cd119187ca361b3 Rosanna Cantavella deposited El sistema de rimes de la tradició trobadoresca segons les Leys d’amors in the group Rhetoric and Composition https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1657161/ Tue, 09 Jul 2019 16:26:10 -0400 This is an outline of how the Leys d'amors, a fourteenth-century troubadour treatise of huge influence on post-troubadour poetry, catalogued rhymes according to merit. It is used in my classes of 35399 Medieval Catalan Literature II, degree in Catalan Philology, at the Universitat de València (http://go.uv.es/ozQkp3H).

]]> 0 ccdaf67e4c04c7e747b5a5459718b7d3 Kay Sohini deposited To the Stars and Beyond: Perceptions on The Starry Night in the group Rhetoric and Composition https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1638400/ Mon, 15 Apr 2019 16:25:32 -0400 Creative non-fiction/semi-academic reflective piece on seeing Vincent van Gogh's The Starry Night for the first time in person at the Museum of Modern Arts.

]]> 0 1acac8c3c645b519c97bfd91f1d87253 Martin Boehnert deposited Linguistisch-philosophische Untersuchungen zu Plausibilität: Über kommunikative Grundmuster bei der Entstehung von wissenschaftlichen Tatsachen in the group Rhetoric and Composition https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1605697/ Sat, 07 Apr 2018 04:13:12 -0400 Plausibilität spielt in allen Wissenschaftskulturen eine gewichtige Rolle - ob implizit oder explizit. Auffällig ist jedoch, dass es keiner spezifisch geschulten Kompetenz oder der Vermittlung eigenständiger Fähigkeiten bedarf, um einen Sachverhalt als "plausibel" zu beurteilen, während bei verwandten Begriffen wie etwa "logisch" je nach den meth…[Read more]

]]> 0 bd990eb74df3186a3827dc85261239bb André Alexandre Padilha Leitão deposited E se...? Crônicas de Possibilidades in the group Rhetoric and Composition https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1597785/ Fri, 19 Jan 2018 04:27:12 -0500 O ensino de língua portuguesa tem mudado muito desde o final da década de 1990. Mas ainda há muito o que fazer. Principalmente pela necessidade levar os alunos a compreenderem que o estudo da língua é o estudo do mundo social, cultural, identitário, psicológico, acadêmico – entre tantos outros mundos – no qual estão inseridos. Muitas vezes isso é…[Read more]

]]> 0 ef37ab257cb6bb2f35ca51014ff32e2c William Hart-Davidson deposited Calculating Kohen's Kappa: A Measure of Inter-Rater Reliability for Qualitative Research Involving Nominal Coding in the group Rhetoric and Composition https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1597784/ Fri, 19 Jan 2018 04:27:11 -0500 This is a gentle introduction to the Kappa Coefficient, a commonly used statistic for measuring reliability between two raters who are applying nominal codes or category labels to qualitative data. This was created for grad students in the Humanities and has been used in both course and workshop settings.

]]> 0 a4436cbd01402605d4bccce82017f150 Donna Maria Alexander deposited Twessays and Composition in the Digital Age in the group Rhetoric and Composition https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1575623/ Wed, 12 Jul 2017 01:02:06 -0400 While written assignments are typically growing in length in line with the ever-expanding volume of resources available to student writers, platforms like Twitter demand more succinct approaches to writing and offer a range of non-traditional stylistic options in its toolbar. Perhaps the twessay is the haiku of the essay genre: short but with a…[Read more]

]]> 0 baf016a6618e862b73178f614c7acbbd Melissa Hudler deposited Feats and Feet of Rhetoric in Jonson's Pleasure Reconciled to Virtue in the group Rhetoric and Composition https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1571437/ Wed, 24 May 2017 01:00:05 -0400 This paper examines the shared characteristics and effects of rhetoric and dance in Pleasure Reconciled to Virtue by Ben Jonson.

]]> 0 2a3705d8f90b936b8921a0ab182c2b5f Stephen Llano deposited Placing the Poetic Corrective: William Carlos Williams, Kenneth Burke and the Poetic Imaginary in the group Rhetoric and Composition https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1565933/ Tue, 04 Apr 2017 01:00:21 -0400 This essay explores the meaning of Kenneth Burke's notion of the "poetic corrective" from his book Permanence and Change by examining the ideas of William Carlos Williams, a lifelong friend and frequent correspondent with Burke. Williams's poetry is also examined as a potential model for the "poetic corrective," which I suggest is what Burke might…[Read more]

]]> 0 fbf632d9b95f9dc3844e9a35c4225929 Mary Pringle deposited Participles Becoming Prepositions – Some Arcane Information for Editors in the group Rhetoric and Composition https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1559866/ Sat, 28 Jan 2017 01:00:49 -0500 In English, some participles have already become prepositions. The author noticed in her work as a technical editor that most of her writers seemed to perceive the participle using as a preposition already although it is not listed as such in the dictionary. The paper gives the evidence and rationale for making such a claim. It offers a window on…[Read more]

]]> 0 35dca0f9867e32cbf29c44840d11e199 Mary Pringle deposited Participles Becoming Prepositions—Some Arcane Information for Editors in the group Rhetoric and Composition https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1559865/ Sat, 28 Jan 2017 01:00:49 -0500 Slideshow to accompany presentation of essay "Participles Becoming Prepositions—Some Arcane Information for Editors" (http://dx.doi.org/10.17613/M6KP7Z)

]]> 0 d0a89fcebaa02378d78f450ceeb3d4f4 Katja Thieme deposited Letters to the Woman’s Page Editor: Francis Marion Beynon’s ‘The Country Homemakers’ and a Public Culture for Women in the group Rhetoric and Composition https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1559056/ Thu, 26 Jan 2017 01:15:55 -0500 This essay focuses on the woman’s page in the Grain Growers’ Guide, edited between 1912 and 1917 by Francis Marion Beynon. I approach this material with questions that have become prominent in rhetorical studies of women’s writing. How were women called forth to speak, and what were their motivations to participate in public debate? How did woman…[Read more]

]]> 0 93ea8a2675ba7c3659a11df10e6f230e Nicky Agate created the group Rhetoric and Composition https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1558764/ Wed, 25 Jan 2017 14:19:00 -0500 0