Composing place: digital rhetorics for a mobile world

Includes bibliographical references and index.Composing Place proposes an innovative approach to engaging with the compositional affordances of mobile technologies. Jacob Greene utilizes a rhetorical framework through which writers can leverage the affordances of new technologies and develops this framework by drawing on theoretical approaches within rhetorical studies, multimodal composition, and spatial theory.--Provided by publisher

Strangely rhetorical: composing differently with novelty devices

Includes bibliographical references and index.Strangely Rhetorical establishes the groundwork for rhetorical strangeness as a lens under the broader interdisciplinary umbrella of rhetoric and composition and shares a series of rhetorical devices for practically thinking about how compositions are made unique. It explores how strange, novel, weird, and interesting texts work.--Provided by publisher.What 1s Strangely Rhetorical? -- Why Strangene2s Matters -- How Strang3ness Works -- Where Is Str4ngeness? -- Se7en 5trangers -- Stran6er Relations -- Parrhesia: Why Speaking Plainly May Be the Strangest Trope of All

Hashtag activism interrogated and embodied: case studies on social justice movements

Includes bibliographical references and index.This volume analyzes the ways hashtags repurpose and reclaim societal narratives, carrying over into external spaces and are embodied by both participants and spectators alike. A diverse set of contributors from a range of disciplines utilize a variety of methodologies to interrogate trajectories and strategies of specific hashtag campaigns.--Provided by publisher.Introduction: redefining hashtag activism / Melissa Ames and Kristi McDuffie -- Networked intervention and the emergence of #BostonHelp / Megan McIntyre -- Sticky hashtags: the role of emotions and affect in hashtag activism / Salma Kalim -- Affecting digital activism: comparative study of tweets from the March For Our Lives rallies and Women's Marches / Melissa Ames and Kristi McDuffie -- #iLookLikeAnEngineer: women reclaiming STEM through hashtag activism / Holly M. Wells -- The ideograph and the #pussyhat: multimodal rhetorics of brevity in the Women's March / Sarah Riddick -- Imagi(ni)ng radicalism in the context of Indian student activism: the discursivity of hashtags and memes / Avishek Ray and Neha Gupta -- Wake up Mr. West: Kanye West, the Sunken Place, and the rhetoric of Black Twitter / Kyesha Jennings -- Lexa deserved better: how one character's death sparked a revolution and changed media representation for the LGBTQ+ community / Erin B. Waggoner -- Constructing digital diasporic spaces and reframing Black masculinity through Insecure's #LawrenceHive / Robert Barry Jr. -- Meme warfare and fake hashtag activism: 4chan's alt-right trolling culture / Jeffrey J. Hall -- A rhetoric of zaniness: trolling, the alt-right, and Pepe the Frog / Sean Milligan -- Who's the #FakeHistorian?: the rhetoric of #FakeHistory among conservative (counter)publics on Twitter / Anonymous -- Digital matters: Twitter reacts and hashtivist narratives / Gabriel I. Green and Morgan K. Johnson -- Conclusion: capturing a moving target: ethical research practices for hashtag activism / Elizabeth Buchanan, Rosemary Clark-Parsons, Stephanie Vie, William I. Wolff, and Kristi McDuffie

Toward more sustainable metaphors of writing program administration

Includes bibliographical references and index.Toward More Sustainable Metaphors of Writing Program Administration builds on forty years of conversations about metaphors by presenting twelve chapters that reclaim and revise established metaphors; offer new metaphors based on sustainable, relational, or emotional labor practices and phenomena; and reveal the improvisational nature of WPA work.--Provided by publisher.From putting out fires to managing fires: lessons for WPAs from indigenous fire managers / Lydia Wilkes -- Seeing the forest and the trees: a rhizomatic metaphor for Writing Program administration / Jacob Babb -- Light and the quantum physics of WPA work / Andrew Hollinger and Manny Piña -- Grounding WPA work: a phenomenology of program development as a liminal WPA / Ryan J. Dippre -- The WPA as labor activist / John Belk -- Learning, representing, and endorsing the landscape: WPA as cartographer / Katherine Daily O'Meara -- Approaching WPA labor with Ahimsa: mapping emotional geographies through sustainable leadership / Christy I. Wenger -- Representing the basement / Alexis Teagarden -- Interlocking circles / Cynthia D. Mwenja -- The affordances and risks of artisanal production as a metaphor for Writing Program administration / Robyn Tasaka -- "Building the plane as we fly it": revising our thinking about our First-Year Experience Program / Rona Kaufman and Scott Rogers -- I'm just playin': directing writing programs as improv / Kim Gunter -- Afterword: sustaining what for why? / Douglas Hesse

Writing on the wall: writing education and resistance to isolationism

Includes bibliographical references and index.The first concerted effort of writing studies scholars to interrogate isolationism in the United States, Writing on the Wall reveals how writing teachers-often working directly with students who are immigrants, undocumented, first-generation, international, and students of color-embody ideas that counter isolationism.--Provided by publisher.Writing education across borders, an anti-isolationist project / David S. Martins -- On the semantic borders of white nationalism / Keith Gilyard -- Strangers in a strange land: "the foreign student" at US universities after World War II / Amy J. Wan -- "To supplant ignorance requires instruction": literacy as transnational racial project in the colonial Philippines / Florianne Jimenez Perzan -- Scaling cosmopolitanism in the age of precarity / Tony Scott -- Writing to mend literate fragmentation / Rebecca Lorimer Leonard -- Multilingualism beyond walls: undocumented young adults subverting writing education / Sara P. Alvarez -- Public pedagogy and multimodal learning on the US-Mexico border / Layli Maria Miron -- Combatting isolationism through COIL virtual exchange: programmatic and pedagogical perspectives / Olga Aksakalova and Tuli Chatterji -- Fostering cosmopolitanism: international educational partnerships in a professional communication course / Joleen Hanson -- Smoothing the path: Chinese-American joint degree programs as resistance to nationalism / Brooke R. Schreiber and Brody Bluemel

Writing centers and learning commons: staying centered while sharing common ground

Includes bibliographical references and index.Writing Centers and Learning Commons presents program administrators, directors, staff, and tutors with a resource of theoretical rationales, experiential journeys, and go-to practical designs and strategies for the many questions involved when writing centers find themselves operating in shared environments.--Provided by publisher.Introduction: the politics and pedagogy of sharing common ground / Steven J. Corbett, Teagan E. Decker, and Maria Soriano Young, with contributions from Hillory Oakes, Elizabeth Busekrus, Alexis Hart, Robyn Rohde, Cassandra Book, Virginia Crank, Celeste Del Russo, Alice Batt, and Michele Ostrow -- The spatial landscape of the learning commons: a political shift to the (writing) center / Elizabeth Busekrus, Alexis Hart, and Robyn Rohde -- Questioning the "streamlining" narrative: writing centers' role in new learning commons / Cassandra Book -- On shopping malls and farmers' markets: an argument for writing center spaces in the university and the community / Helen Raica-Klotz and Christopher Giroux -- Scientific writing as multiliteracy: a study of disciplinarity limitations in writing centers and learning commons / Robby Nadler, Kristen Miller, and Charles A. Braman -- Trade-offs, not takeovers: a learning center/writing center collaboration for tutor training / Virginia Crank -- New paradigms in shared space: 2015 Mid-Atlantic Writing Centers Association Conference keynote address and postscript / Nathalie Singh-Corcoran -- Integrating writing and research centers: student, writing tutor, and research consultant perspectives / David Stock and Suzanne Julian -- "Experts among us": exploring the recursive space of research and writing collaborations through tutor training / Celeste Del Russo -- The tales we tell: applying peripheral vision to build a successful learning commons partnership / Alice Batt and Michele Ostrow -- Breaking the silos / Patricia Egbert -- Sharing "common" ground within a success center: welcomed changes, uncomfortable changes, and promising compromises / Kathleen Richards -- Conclusion: toward sharing the common ground of student success / Maria Soriano Young, Teagan E. Decker, and Steven J. Corbett