Knowledge Commons | Aimée Knight | Group Activity https://hcommons.org/members/aimeeknight/activity/groups/ Public group activity feed of which Aimée Knight is a member. Sat, 04 Apr 2026 15:04:43 -0400 https://buddypress.org/?v=10.6.0 en-US 30 hourly 2 db39cbbae8c7e4aaa131014be0eaa4a1 Tara Coleman started the topic CFP: Emancipatory Narratives and Academic Freedom in the Writing Classroom in the forum RCWS Writing Pedagogies https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/writing-pedagogies/forum/topic/cfp-emancipatory-narratives-and-academic-freedom-in-the-writing-classroom/ Sat, 28 Feb 2026 20:07:28 -0500 Call for proposals for a guaranteed session for the 2027 MLA convention, sponsored by the Writing Pedagogies forum:

Seeking 250-word proposals exploring the impact of institutional and/or professional positionalities on how our students learn to interrogate dominant narratives in their writing. How do we emancipate students while recognizing our…[Read more]

]]> 61083f16359bfa9076f03dd6fa7c7efd Lee B. Abraham started the topic Call for Papers: MLA 2026 for Forum on Second-Language Teaching and Learning in the forum RCWS Writing Pedagogies https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/writing-pedagogies/forum/topic/call-for-papers-mla-2026-for-forum-on-second-language-teaching-and-learning-3/ Sun, 09 Mar 2025 18:43:00 -0400 Call for Papers
Forum on Second-Language Teaching and Learning
2026 Modern Language Association Annual Convention
January 8-11, 2026, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

The MLA Forum on Second-Language Teaching and Learning invites submissions for consideration to be included in two guaranteed and two non-guaranteed sessions to take place during the 2026…[Read more]

]]> 865c8bbd1e34f01f43d9a99b09cef71c Tara Coleman started the topic Calls for Proposals: MLA 2026 Convention in Toronto in the forum RCWS Writing Pedagogies https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/writing-pedagogies/forum/topic/calls-for-proposals-mla-2026-convention-in-toronto/ Tue, 04 Mar 2025 16:00:33 -0500 The RCWS forum in Writing Pedagogies is organizing two panels for the MLA 2026 Convention in Toronto. Please reach out if you have questions or are interested in proposing something for either of these sessions!

Kinship, Care, and Writing Instruction
How do writing instructors foster connection across communities while navigating cultural and…[Read more]

]]> f82dffac1731931a4e77d0673a049b68 Tara Coleman started the topic Seeking Nominations for the RCWS Writing Pedagogies Form Committee in the discussion RCWS Writing Pedagogies https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/writing-pedagogies/forum/topic/seeking-nominations-for-the-rcws-writing-pedagogies-form-committee/ Fri, 08 Mar 2024 18:45:56 -0500 The RCWS Writing Pedagogies Forum requests nominations for a new Executive Committee member! We're seeking passionate individuals with a dedication to writing pedagogies to contribute to our community. Being on the committee allows you to participate in organizing guaranteed sessions for the MLA convention each January and generally engage in…[Read more]

]]> a4d56c4835684b1b5acd13047d8e2826 Sujata Iyengar deposited 'It was the best butter': Choosing the Right Journal for Your Work in the group RCWS Writing Pedagogies https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1829048/ Tue, 10 Jan 2023 02:28:01 -0500 Series of Powerpoint slides. Background on the limited time of faculty at "the 99%" of institutions (Francisco and O'Dair) to conduct research and thus the importance of not wasting that labor by choosing inappropriate venues. Overview of types of journal, and suggestions for using reflection prompts, the MLA directory of Periodicals, and a…[Read more]

]]> 0 3b6855b826f5b4f20ce232cdc829d092 Rebecca Davis deposited Oops Token Example in the group RCWS Writing Pedagogies https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1771418/ Fri, 11 Feb 2022 03:53:31 -0500 Example of how to set up a policy of Oops Tokens to build flexibility into attendance policies. This idea comes from the book Specifications Grading by Linda Nilson via Flower Darby’s book Small Teaching Online.

]]> 0 7ee1c50023b9d2241ed8e1d9cbbe5fe2 Sujata Iyengar deposited "Decolonizing" Milton and Spenser through Diasporic Interpreters in the group RCWS Writing Pedagogies https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1748189/ Tue, 03 Aug 2021 03:53:19 -0400 Describes and provides examples of modules and assignments for a sophomore Brit Lit survey and an upper-division poetics class that responded to student demands for a more racially diverse canon. Includes a brief discussion of Lucius Henry Holsey, enslaved worker on the UGA campus, who claimed to have learned to read from Milton's Paradise Lost…[Read more]

]]> 0 1b550c4a506560fbacbe68b3532ad8f4 Sujata Iyengar deposited Some Practices for Publishing the Precariat in the group RCWS Writing Pedagogies https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1736014/ Sat, 24 Apr 2021 02:30:20 -0400 In this paper, in a panel co-sponsored by the MLA Committee on Contingent Labor in the Profession and the Council of Editors of Learned Journals, I summarize some of the structural and practical problems that challenge contingent scholars when they try to publish their work in scholarly journals. I share the record of the online, multimedia,…[Read more]

]]> 0 5f83b8fbc7dcf878d0e7389acc594588 Anne Donlon replied to the topic Invitation to join a new Commons group on teaching remotely in the discussion RCWS Writing Pedagogies https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/writing-pedagogies/forum/topic/invitation-to-join-a-new-commons-group-on-teaching-remotely-6/#post-1026685 Tue, 09 Mar 2021 21:28:55 -0500 Apologies for the additional message. For some reason, the link broke in my original post. Here is the correct link: https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/teaching-remotely/.

]]> 91056d274fb092367455a47305e8156e Michael A. Burke deposited "Double the Fun: Implementing “Multiple Measures” and Accelerated Learning Program Simultaneously" in the group RCWS Writing Pedagogies https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1722364/ Sat, 09 Jan 2021 03:51:44 -0500 This discusses the multi-year process of implementing co-requisite composition courses and establishing a multiple measures placement mechanism to determine which students need what kinds of developmental course work, if any. The end result was an increase in course pass rates and an increase in retention.

]]> 0 a7379765026ace21d1dc4d728446c915 Hilary Sarat-St. Peter started the topic Candidate for Election to RCWS Pedagogies Forum in the discussion RCWS Writing Pedagogies https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/writing-pedagogies/forum/topic/candidate-for-election-to-rcws-pedagogies-forum/ Sun, 29 Nov 2020 22:10:35 -0500 As I have been nominated to run for the election for the RCWS pedagogies forum executive committee, I would like to introduce myself via this forum.

I'm an associate professor of professional/technical writing in the department of English and Creative Writing at Columbia College Chicago, the largest nonprofit arts college in the US.  Much of my o…[Read more]

]]> a52ec621847e9eeb070c429e0c063990 Alex Mueller deposited The Places of Writing on the Multimodal Page in the group RCWS Writing Pedagogies https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1714418/ Sat, 24 Oct 2020 02:27:23 -0400 Prior to the advent of the printing press, the page—the medieval manuscript page—was often complexly multimodal, containing elaborate scripts, rubrications, and illuminations; the medieval page was a multimedia experience for its community of readers, viewers, and listeners. Both writing and the page are, and always were, visual: rendered in mul…[Read more]

]]> 0 2f80de9d0f8ae97bdb59024febdd5420 Kelly Aliano started the topic Looking for Participants for a Roundtable for MLA Conference 2021 in the discussion RCWS Writing Pedagogies https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/writing-pedagogies/forum/topic/looking-for-participants-for-a-roundtable-for-mla-conference-2021/ Wed, 29 Jan 2020 20:33:51 -0500 I am looking for participants for a roundtable for the 2021 MLA Conference. The description for the session is pasted below. Please reach out to me directly (kel.irene.aliano@gmail.com) with any questions or to submit a proposal.

Putting Writing and Performance in Conversation

This panel welcomes abstracts (max. 300 words) that explore the…[Read more]

]]> 08da7c27a362433fe5c88bc121fda948 Tanja Stampfl started the topic Tenure Track Position in Composition and Rhetoric in the discussion RCWS Writing Pedagogies https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/writing-pedagogies/forum/topic/tenure-track-position-in-composition-and-rhetoric/ Thu, 21 Nov 2019 21:04:22 -0500 The Department of English at the University of the Incarnate Word invites applications for an Assistant Professor position in Composition and Rhetoric (tenure-track, 4-4 teaching load) beginning August 2020. The successful candidate must have a Ph.D. in Composition and Rhetoric, specialize in the teaching of Composition, and demonstrate a proven…[Read more]

]]> 22f8c87f2c362658f450073daac9dabd Kathi Inman Berens deposited Introduction: "What Is Creative Making As Creative Writing?" in the group RCWS Writing Pedagogies https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1665791/ Tue, 08 Oct 2019 16:31:00 -0400 This special issue of the Journal of Creative Writing Studies centers on how creative writing changes when writers actively engage computers as nonhuman collaborators in “creative making.” Using examples from McGurl’s The Program Era, Emily Dickinson, and the crowdsourced “translation” of Melville’s classic into Emoji Dick, Berens suggests th…[Read more]

]]> 0 e6ed308bf4dcbddd50469f54f4fbad62 Sujata Iyengar deposited Focus on "Henry V": Navigating Digital Text, Performance, and Historical Resources in the group RCWS Writing Pedagogies https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1658766/ Fri, 26 Jul 2019 16:30:04 -0400 "Focus on 'Henry V'" is a peer-reviewed, multimedia, digital Open Educational Resource co-authored and co-produced by faculty, graduate students, and undergraduates on the innovative digital publishing platform Scalar. Chapters include guides to early printed editions, sources, and performance and cinematic histories of the play, as well as…[Read more]

]]> 0 22af40c6a97544f4fa59ca6ae87ea5e4 Nicole B. Wallack started the topic CFP: Deadline extended to July 31, 2019 -- Call for Proposed Chapters: The Edinburgh Companion to the Essay in the discussion RCWS Writing Pedagogies via email https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/writing-pedagogies/forum/topic/cfp-deadline-extended-to-july-31-2019-call-for-proposed-chapters-the-edinburgh-companion-to-the-essay/ Wed, 12 Jun 2019 17:26:16 -0400 Call for Proposed Chapters: The Edinburgh Companion to the Essay [Extended Deadline]

Overview:

The Edinburgh Companion to the Essay provides an overview of the theories, histories, contexts and forms of the essay as well as of current debates around the genre and its extensions. The co-editors seek brief (300-word) proposals for chapters that…[Read more]

]]> 5a4e75fbcad25ae3fceb0aef0362ad05 Stefan Vogel started the topic Study participation request in the discussion RCWS Writing Pedagogies https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/writing-pedagogies/forum/topic/study-participation-request-4/ Wed, 13 Mar 2019 23:47:24 -0400 Dear RCWS Writing Pedagogies members,

My name is Stefan Vogel. I am a PhD student in the Second Language Acquisition and Teaching Program at the University of Arizona, and I would like to invite you to participate in my dissertation research. In my dissertation project, I focus on the professional development of L2 writing instructors in higher…[Read more]

]]> 3a8333a611279fac06c02e5e359c07ec Patrick Williams deposited The Machine Stops: Critical Orientations to Our Information Apparatus in the group RCWS Writing Pedagogies https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1631827/ Tue, 12 Feb 2019 16:27:57 -0500 This chapter details a credit-based orientation & information literacy course taught with local archival and special collections materials.

]]> 0 7adb0f4668dbbeae1f672532ac456cfd Jason Helms deposited The Invisibility of Digital Labor (slides) in the group RCWS Writing Pedagogies https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1628605/ Thu, 10 Jan 2019 16:44:54 -0500 Digital scholarship, particularly with digital monographs, requires a great deal of work that traditional scholarship does not. The presenter has authored a digital monograph (published 2017) and written and co-written web texts on the methodologies of digital scholarship and critical making (both currently under review). While digital tools can…[Read more]

]]> 0 80e73ce0f35bd7d93da37f55210395d2 Jason Helms deposited The Invisibility of Digital Labor in the group RCWS Writing Pedagogies https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1628602/ Thu, 10 Jan 2019 16:39:14 -0500 Digital scholarship, particularly with digital monographs, requires a great deal of work that traditional scholarship does not. The presenter has authored a digital monograph (published 2017) and written and co-written web texts on the methodologies of digital scholarship and critical making (both currently under review). While digital tools can…[Read more]

]]> 0 517ba6e245b149593dce5bddafb9c466 Jason Helms deposited The High Cost of Love: Passive Exploitation of Labor in DH and DM Courses (slides) in the group RCWS Writing Pedagogies https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1628598/ Thu, 10 Jan 2019 16:33:15 -0500 One of the most salient aspects of DH projects is that they are fun to create. DH scholars love to make amazing new tools that solve tangible problems. This makes teaching DH a joy: students work harder on DH assignments because the assignments demand and reward their attention. When work is fun, it doesn’t feel like work. Rather than being a…[Read more]

]]> 0 3d287dd24b45f8ba14a48f79f2700216 Jason Helms deposited The High Cost of Love: Passive Exploitation of Labor in DH and DM Courses in the group RCWS Writing Pedagogies https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1628594/ Thu, 10 Jan 2019 16:26:09 -0500 One of the most salient aspects of DH projects is that they are fun to create. DH scholars love to make amazing new tools that solve tangible problems. This makes teaching DH a joy: students work harder on DH assignments because the assignments demand and reward their attention. When work is fun, it doesn’t feel like work. Rather than being a…[Read more]

]]> 0 a6a21aa7d51a4aa9d7816ca43dcefa12 bonnie lenore kyburz started the topic CFP: Women & Language (via Leland G. Spencer, Editor) in the discussion RCWS Writing Pedagogies https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/writing-pedagogies/forum/topic/cfp-women-language-via-leland-g-spencer-editor/ Tue, 11 Dec 2018 17:43:54 -0500 Women & Language, an international, interdisciplinary, peer-reviewed journal publishes original scholarly articles and creative work covering all aspects of communication, language, and gender. Contributions to Women & Language may be empirical, rhetorical-critical, interpretive, theoretical, or artistic. All appropriate research methodologies are…[Read more]

]]> 68695edf2704d219fe5cd6eb1878f5ed Carol Zuses started the topic Membership Suggestions for 2019 Forum Delegate Election in the discussion The Teaching of Writing https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/writing-pedagogies/forum/topic/membership-suggestions-for-2019-forum-delegate-election-45/ Fri, 21 Sep 2018 12:39:24 -0400 The next election for this forum’s Delegate Assembly representative will be held in the fall of 2019, and the forum’s executive committee will take up the matter of nominations for this election when it meets during the January 2019 convention in Chicago. Though the executive committee is responsible for making nominations, it is required to nom…[Read more]

]]> 1422461f12cab9c3df23d7105aa94711 Suzanne Blum Malley started the topic Dont' Miss the RCWS Literacy Studies Sessions at MLA 2018! in the discussion The Teaching of Writing https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/writing-pedagogies/forum/topic/dont-miss-the-rcws-literacy-studies-sessions-at-mla-2018-3/ Wed, 27 Dec 2017 00:22:19 -0500

RCWS Literacy Studies Sponsored Sessions:
 
402. Literacies in Motion: Crossing National, Cultural, Generational, and Local Borders
FRIDAY, 5 JANUARY 5:15 PM-6:30 PM, CONCOURSE D (HILTON)
Sponsoring Entity: RCWS Literacy Studies
Presentations
1. Digital Stewards of Alaska Native Languages and Literacies, Jennifer Stone (U of Alaska,…

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]]> c3b7abff55521291506520c2bcc9c90a Ian Barnard started the topic Candidate for Writing Pedagogies forum executive committee in the discussion The Teaching of Writing https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/writing-pedagogies/forum/topic/candidate-for-writing-pedagogies-forum-executive-committee/ Fri, 10 Nov 2017 19:20:16 -0500 Dear Colleagues,

I have been nominated to stand for election to the executive committee of the Writing Pedagogies forum, so I wanted to tell you a bit about myself and my commitments.

In my scholarship over the years, I have argued that we teachers of writing need to debunk common dispositions and practices around writing pedagogy (e.g., about…[Read more]

]]> 95767327b3cf1a3db84b1aa0496df9c9 Simone Sacchi deposited HuMetricsHSS: towards value-based indicators in the Humanities and Social Sciences in the group RCWS Writing Pedagogies https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1583547/ Tue, 03 Oct 2017 01:00:03 -0400 This presentation will introduce the HuMetricsHSS (Humane Metrics in the Humanities and Social Sciences) initiative, which aims to develop and support a values-based framework of indicators for excellence for the humanities and social science in academia and, by extension, academic libraries. This value-based evaluation paradigm uses metrics only…[Read more]

]]> 0 302491201ba6dfc9e2742b8278e3ed06 Amanda Licastro deposited Composition and Writing with Sources in the group RCWS Writing Pedagogies https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1579206/ Sat, 19 Aug 2017 01:08:55 -0400 Course Description: Develops the ability to write clear, coherent, and well-developed expository prose. This course requires analytical reading and critical thinking and includes instruction and practice in research methods and writing from sources.

]]> 0 a8e2c59b7f0b9d41ca15bcbb9d9341ee Shawn Moore deposited ENC 1101: Composition and Rhetoric in the group RCWS Writing Pedagogies https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1578177/ Wed, 09 Aug 2017 01:01:06 -0400 This is the Fall 2017 full course syllabus for ENC 1101: Composition and Rhetoric to be taught at Florida SouthWestern State College.

]]> 0 31d9a952d85eb60e96076444382a2422 Shawn Moore deposited ENC 1101: Composition and Rhetoric in the group RCWS Writing Pedagogies https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1578176/ Wed, 09 Aug 2017 01:01:02 -0400 This is the Fall 2017 full course syllabus for ENC 1101: Composition and Rhetoric to be taught at Florida SouthWestern State College.

]]> 0 7d7e4a10e8bbb29dd04a93cc49240dcb Nicky Agate started the topic Think the academy has its values & incentives all wrong? in the discussion The Teaching of Writing https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/writing-pedagogies/forum/topic/think-the-academy-has-its-values-incentives-all-wrong-2/ Sat, 05 Aug 2017 03:04:27 -0400 Dear colleagues,

Forgive the intrusion, but I thought some members of this group might be interested in the following (and the HuMetrics team would certainly be interested in hearing the perspectives of those interested in writing pedagogies):

Are you concerned about the growing reliance on quantitative metrics to evaluate research—and p…[Read more]

]]> f73c0fbe66e0c8a4aa0bc230ddc843f8 William A. Gleason started the topic Princeton University Press Call for Submissions in the discussion The Teaching of Writing https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/writing-pedagogies/forum/topic/princeton-university-press-call-for-submissions/ Fri, 17 Feb 2017 22:12:02 -0500 Now welcoming submissions, The Pocket Instructor: Writing (edited by Amanda Irwin Wilkins and Keith Shaw) will be a collection of creative exercises for teaching academic writing in the undergraduate classroom. It follows in the footsteps of The Pocket Instructor: Literature, edited by Diana Fuss and William A. Gleason (Princeton University Press,…[Read more]

]]> d81d1e3bea2d9365fcda261a1ca7e389 David Laurence deposited Trends in Bachelor's Degrees in English and Other Selected Fields of Study, 1987–2015 in the group RCWS Writing Pedagogies https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1557722/ Fri, 20 Jan 2017 20:15:09 -0500 Prepared for session 366 on the 2017 convention program, Shapes of the English Major Today, arranged by the ADE Ad Hoc Committee on the English Major, this presentation summarizes trends in bachelor's degree completions using time series degree completions data from the Integrated Postsecondary Education System (IPEDS), as compiled by the National…[Read more]

]]> 0 c190099199469d452adb99bc55bde99f Julie Ward replied to the topic CFP MLA 2017: Specifications Grading: Case Studies in the discussion The Teaching of Writing https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/writing-pedagogies/forum/topic/cfp-mla-2017-specifications-grading-case-studies/#post-1013223 Thu, 19 Jan 2017 17:42:45 -0500 Correction: This is for presentation at the 2018 Convention of the MLA.

]]> 714ec46973bb19a1d07e321619124f92 Julie Ward started the topic CFP MLA 2017: Specifications Grading: Case Studies in the discussion The Teaching of Writing https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/writing-pedagogies/forum/topic/cfp-mla-2017-specifications-grading-case-studies/ Thu, 19 Jan 2017 14:20:34 -0500 Interactive workshop focusing on Nilson's Specifications Grading. Presenters share best practices for specs grading in the classroom, using real examples. 250-word description of use of specs grading by 1 March 2017; Julie Ward (wardjulie@ou.edu) and Ashwini Ganeshan (ganeshan@ohio.edu).

]]> 192004b59667ce79d14d491927322001 Anne Geller deposited Millions of Dollars Might Get You Into the MLA: When NEH Funding Shaped the State of Writing Studies in English Studies in the group RCWS Writing Pedagogies https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1557545/ Wed, 18 Jan 2017 20:14:47 -0500 Panel Title Writing Studies at the MLA: The Past and Future of English Studies

]]> 0 64a56c44f2177fe2d6e5cf63eb0a16be Laura Lisabeth deposited When William Strunk Was A Philologist He Thought of Grammar as a Folder in the group RCWS Writing Pedagogies https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1557050/ Wed, 11 Jan 2017 20:19:46 -0500 In this paper, I show how, as a philologist, William Strunk's approach to language was a rich historical and rhetorical experience far from the prescriptivism E.B. White ascribes to him in the first edition of The Elements of Style (1959). An interesting historical parallel exists between Strunk's tenure as a PhD student in philology at Cornell…[Read more]

]]> 0 6bdba73e06aa01c14ef7c096e4dadfa5 Carol DeGrasse deposited MLA 8 Documentation Presentation (with Creative Common License) in the group RCWS Writing Pedagogies https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/552822/ Thu, 27 Oct 2016 18:43:26 -0400 The presentation is a Powerpoint slide show that covers the new MLA 8 documentation for classroom use. The presentation covers the nine core elements, with brief explanations and examples of how to properly use them in writing citations.

]]> 0 716b27f1b74ad6071030c6232ce4e640 Nicky Agate deposited Humanities Values Infographic in the group RCWS Writing Pedagogies https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/552777/ Thu, 27 Oct 2016 14:17:40 -0400 This infographic represents an in-progress attempt by the #Humetrics team at TriangleSCI to pin down values that, if encouraged and incentivized in the academy, would enrich and improve humanities scholarship. It is meant to start a conversation. What are we missing? See more about the process and thinking behind this approach at…[Read more]

]]> 0 99100c9b525c6fb7d1ca645d2cdd2c2a Brooke Carlson deposited TWITAGOGY: WRITING, INFORMATION LITERACY, WRITTEN COMMUNICATION, and 21st CENTURY PEDAGOGY in the group RCWS Writing Pedagogies https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/552568/ Mon, 24 Oct 2016 20:55:48 -0400 Technology is transforming twenty-first century education. Central to the study of English Literature is critical thinking and writing, and with the advent of digital texts (along with the precursor - digitized writing) the space of the discipline continues to expand. One way to get at what is being done in the study of literature is to explore…[Read more]

]]> 0 1fb13d3542ddfec5ba14a7f869803787 Nicky Agate deposited The Syllabus as Scholarship in the group RCWS Writing Pedagogies https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/552371/ Thu, 20 Oct 2016 13:15:56 -0400 One of a series of blog posts reflecting on #HumetricsHSS, the work of the Humane Metrics for the Humanities team at the Triangle Scholarly Communication Institute in 2016.

]]> 0 4342605d68d39bbd86dd058e1d95a5b5 Laura R. Braunstein deposited Approximating the University: The Information Literacy Practices of Novice Researchers in the group RCWS Writing Pedagogies https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/552200/ Fri, 14 Oct 2016 17:08:31 -0400 In a seminal essay, David Bartholomae asserts that novice writers need to “invent the university by assembling and mimicking its language.” Instructors and librarians who work with beginning academic writers confirm Bartholomae’s assertion. Our research asks how, precisely, novice writer-researchers go about inventing the university before they…[Read more]

]]> 0 60ffa9dd392ef05d5a2ac23d3b88449c Val Dumond replied to the topic Member news to share? in the discussion The Teaching of Writing https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/writing-pedagogies/forum/topic/member-news-to-share-2/#post-11733 Tue, 30 Aug 2016 21:19:58 -0400 book cover

After a five year struggle, my book, American-English: The Official Guide, has been published and is available through Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Kindle. Not a "rule" book, it is aimed at writers and emphasizes the benefits of creating Your Style Manual and recording personal choices of grammar and punctuation usage.  A special section offers…[Read more]

]]> e4fae0344610f27a8ac431e638d4e0d5 Pamela Herron replied to the topic Member news to share? in the discussion The Teaching of Writing https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/writing-pedagogies/forum/topic/member-news-to-share-2/#post-11714 Mon, 29 Aug 2016 21:51:05 -0400 My chapter "East to West - The Inter-Connectedness of All Things Created" will be published in the forthcoming book Sustainability in/and Writing Intensive Courses as part of the Lexington Books' Ecocritical Theory and Practice Series. The book should be out by MLA 2017.

Thanks!

Pam

]]> 89544050e070ae2d72023aca524be044 Nicky Agate started the topic Member news to share? in the discussion The Teaching of Writing https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/writing-pedagogies/forum/topic/member-news-to-share-2/ Mon, 29 Aug 2016 19:00:35 -0400 Have you recently published a book, presented a project, or won an award? Share your news with other MLA members in the Commons Newsletter. Message me your news here on the Commons (@terrainsvagues) or e-mailcommons@mla.org over the next couple of days to be included in the September issue!

]]> c3f8c300c578085cf1a2c118ebd9fe31 Brooke Carlson deposited SoTL and Rubrics: Transforming Feedback to the Written Word in the group RCWS Writing Pedagogies https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/545447/ Tue, 08 Mar 2016 06:33:34 -0500 How do we offer feedback to essays? Over time, the response as narrative has become problematic. Class sizes have increased, more classes are being taught, fewer professors are teaching composition. Time has become even more scarce as duties outside the classroom multiply for full-time faculty. In addition, technology has changed the way by…[Read more]

]]> 0 28aef3b2e8c192a7e42380276186c8d4 Brooke Carlson deposited (Skillfully) Wielding the World-Wide Web in the Classroom: “I’m NOT Gonna Be That Creepy Guy” in the group RCWS Writing Pedagogies https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/545181/ Thu, 03 Mar 2016 06:43:55 -0500 I used to share with my classes that ebooks are outselling books, and like the music industry, the book market is now digital. While the record business has shifted in profound ways with the rise of digital technology, the book press is still in flux. Digital book sales over the past couple of years have been fluctuating around book sales. As a…[Read more]

]]> 0 f7bcee5737c766662dc01081b2f110f9 Rebecca Day Babcock deposited Live from MLA-Writing about Writing in the group RCWS Writing Pedagogies https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/538782/ Fri, 15 Jan 2016 13:06:36 -0500 Blog on writing about writing sessions from MLA 2016

]]> 0 e5ec98a06ae9cc0a051c955a89d9a24c Laura Lisabeth deposited The Fetish of Style: The Elements of Style and The Marketing of English Language Usage in the group RCWS Writing Pedagogies https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/538602/ Wed, 13 Jan 2016 17:11:20 -0500 I argue that The Elements of Style by Strunk and White comes out of a history connecting it to the nineteenth century "conversation handbook" (Connors) and other cultural guides to middlebrow identity formation including The Book-Of-The-Month Club. The Elements of Style is a guide to a genteel language performance rooted in the racialized,…[Read more]

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