Writing With(out) Pain: Computing Injuries and the Role of the Body in Writing Activity

This article uses the lens of computer writing injuries to explore writing as an embodied activity. We use philosopher Mark Johnson\u27s five-part definition of embodiment to develop an analysis that examines the physical, flesh-and-blood aspects of writing in addition to the social and cultural aspects of embodied activity. With this framework, we show the limits of purely technological solutions to writing injuries (like ergonomic keyboards) and explore the difficulties of including somatic training in the writing classroom. Rather than prescribing a single solution, we propose that these injuries require multifaceted infrastructural changes, and point to the benefits of approaching writing with mindfulness. We conclude by suggesting ways that writing instructors and scholars can use this framework to rethink the role of the body in writing activity

Mothers\u27 Ways of Making It—or Making Do?: Making (Over) Academic Lives in Rhetoric and Composition with Children

This article focuses on five women\u27s experiences “making it” as rhetoricians with children. Expanding the definition of success Michelle Ballif, Diane Davis and Roxanne Mountford set forth in Women\u27s Ways of Making It in Rhetoric and Composition, the article offers suggestions for moving toward more family-friendly academic structures, not least by recognizing that the seemingly individualistic idea of choice—such as the choice to have children—rests uneasily with the often invisible structures that shape and delimit choices. The authors call for increased visibility of and acceptance for a greater range of possibilities for “making it” in the field today

Rhetorical Labor: Writing, Childbirth, and the Internet

238 p.Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2007.The dissertation is about more than birth or birth writing: it is also about how what we know, or think we know, is informed by and/or informs everyday rhetorics. The project, broadly, is about how people create, manage and resist epistemologies.U of I OnlyRestricted to the U of I community idenfinitely during batch ingest of legacy ETD

Rhetorical Labor: Writing, Childbirth, and the Internet

238 p.Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2007.The dissertation is about more than birth or birth writing: it is also about how what we know, or think we know, is informed by and/or informs everyday rhetorics. The project, broadly, is about how people create, manage and resist epistemologies.U of I OnlyRestricted to the U of I community idenfinitely during batch ingest of legacy ETD