The Performance of Literate Practices: Rhetoric, Writing, and Stand-up Comedy

An analysis of a comedian’s composition of comedy routines leads to valuable implications about the performative aspects of revision

More Hawk, Less Seagull: The Importance of Community-Led SoTL Research

This systematic reflection essay blends research and community engagement with Margaret Kovach’s keynote address at the 2022 conference of the International Society of the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (ISSOTL) and with the coauthors’ autoethnographic accounts reflecting on their challenges across Australia and the US in conducting ethically responsible SoTL scholarship. The essay is a call for engagement with community-led projects drawing on Neil Drew’s (2006) metaphor of a seagull, who flies in, takes what it wants, and leaves a mess behind. Two stories provided by the co-authors invite further discussion into the hopeful challenges of conducting community-led SoTL research. Click here to read the corresponding ISSOTL blog post.

Redesigning a sustainable English capstone course through a virtual student-faculty partnership

This collaborative essay between undergraduate students and a faculty member illustrates the importance of partnerships between students and faculty when redesigning courses. We ground this partnering in Students as Partner (SaP) praxis. SaP reinvigorates the faculty and student relationship as one in which both students and faculty serve as active agents in curriculum development, redesign, and assessment. In this essay, we introduce our partnership, locally ground our partnership, and highlight how we redesigned a sustainable English Department capstone course to include a cumulative, integrative assignment. Our partnership was not designed to lead to a quantifiable direct output (i.e., a publication or even a redesigned class); instead, our goal was to build community, to support each other, to learn, to write for ourselves and each other. We conclude by offering brief qualitative data on the effectiveness of our redesign efforts and how our approach may work as a model for redesigning courses in different contexts/institutions

More Hawk, Less Seagull: The Importance of Community-Led SoTL Research

This systematic reflection essay blends research and community engagement with Margaret Kovach’s keynote address at the 2022 conference of the International Society of the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (ISSOTL) and with the coauthors’ autoethnographic accounts reflecting on their challenges across Australia and the US in conducting ethically responsible SoTL scholarship. The essay is a call for engagement with community-led projects drawing on Neil Drew’s (2006) metaphor of a seagull, who flies in, takes what it wants, and leaves a mess behind. Two stories provided by the co-authors invite further discussion into the hopeful challenges of conducting community-led SoTL research

Contribute a Verse

In response to the Affordable Learning Georgia initiative, Dr. Tanya Bennett and ten colleagues from the University of North Georgia have written Contribute a Verse: A Guide to First Year Composition. This peer reviewed textbook, published by the University of North Georgia Press, combines a composition rhetoric manual with grammar and documentation instruction and resources, components that can be flexibly arranged to fit instructors’ classroom plans. It includes a standard rhetoric instruction, information and practice for Standard English Grammar, and guidelines for the four most common documentation styles. Its reader compiles essays compiled for English 1101, focused for thematic discussion and selected for use in rhetorical analysis. The textbook also includes a glossary of pertinent terms and ancillary instructor resources. Its contents include Reading Critically/Engaging the Material; Rhetorical Situations; Effective Argument; Introductions and Conclusions; Logic of Assertion, Evidence, and Interpretation; Documentation; Visual Rhetoric; Multi-Modality; Inter-disciplinary Writing; and Grammar. A print version of this book is available for $29.99 Contact the University of North Georgia Press for details and ordering information. [email protected] | 706-864-1556https://digitalcommons.northgeorgia.edu/books/1002/thumbnail.jp

Embodied playbook: writing practices of student-athletes, The

Includes bibliographical references and index.Understanding student literacy in a surprising place: the university athletic department. Through analysis of a year-long case study of a university men's basketball team, showing a deeper and refined understanding of how humans learn through the body can help writing instructors reach a greater range of students..--Provided by publisher.Knowing our student-athletes -- What are plays and what do they do?: a textual analysis of scripted plays -- How do student-athletes learn plays?: a narrative of a Division II men's basketball team -- How can we better teach our student-athlete writers?: a narrative of a Division I writing center -- How can we better teach our student-athlete writers?: writing practices as jazzy, creative, collaborative

Fleshing Out The Uniqueness of Student-Athlete Writing Centers: A Response to Alanna Bitzel

" I eagerly read Alanna Bitzel’s recent column in Praxis titled “Supporting Student-Athletes.” For many reasons I am still puzzling through, writing center studies, even academia writ large, often avoid discussing the multi-million dollar stadiums and operating budgets of the high-profile athletic programs sharing our campuses. And when academia does turn its eye toward athletic programs (be it in The Chronicle of Higher Education or in university press books), it decries their bigbusiness approach and loudly bangs the drum of academic reform. "University Writing Cente