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“Lend Ears!”: Creating Audio Recordings of Final Drafts to Develop Rhetorical Awareness

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Heather Shearer Assignments & Activities Archive Assignment Description Many composition instructors ask students to read drafts aloud during writing workshops because doing so helps writers identify logical gaps, stylistic mishaps, or localized errors they overlook when reading drafts silently. To amplify the writerly knowledge gained from reading drafts aloud, we can extend the read-aloud practice […]

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What’s the Diff? Version History and Revision Reflections

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Benjamin Miller Volume 5 Chapter Description This essay recommends that writers use digital tools to keep track of what’s changing as they write—and to include a quick comment with each notable change, saying what they’re trying to achieve. These revisitable histories are helpful in several ways. First, when we notice what we’re changing (often unconsciously)

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Changing Your Mindset About Revision

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L. Lennie Irvin Volume 5 Chapter Description Many freshmen enter college with a one-draft writing process where revision means tidying up errors and then submitting the final product. This chapter is about changing your thinking about revision as a foundation for changing your practice of revision. The chapter explores the false concepts about writing and

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The Good, The Bad, and the Ugly of Peer Review

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Erin E. Kelly Volume 5 Chapter Description Academic writing classes regularly require students to engage in peer review: that is, to read and comment on classmates’ work in progress in an attempt to make that work better. This chapter shows how such class activities connect to the practices of academic peer review associated with academic

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Find the Best Tools for the Job: Experimenting with Writing Workflows

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Derek Van Ittersum & Tim Lockridge Volume 4 Chapter Description This chapter introduces “writing workflows,” a concept that helps writers examine how tools shape writing processes.* It suggests that writing does not take place solely in the mind, with the tools merely transcribing that activity. Instead, it describes how any experience of writing is shaped

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Understanding and Maintaining Your Privacy When Writing with Digital Technologies

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Lindsey C. Kim Volume 4 Chapter Description As our students utilize more networked technologies in their writing, it has become critical that both students and teachers understand the role privacy plays in their digital activity. This chapter aims to help students understand why privacy is an important concept to consider when writing online and to

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What’s That Supposed to Mean? Using Feedback on Your Writing

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Jillian Grauman Volume 4 Chapter Description Providing feedback to students is one of the most challenging parts of a composition instructor’s job (Caswell; Straub, Practice), and making use of that feedback (whether provided by a professor, tutor, or classmate) is just as challenging for students. While research has shown that students prefer feedback that helps

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At Work in the Archives: Place-Based Research and Writing

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Lynée Lewis Gaillet & Jessica Rose Volume 4 Chapter Description This chapter outlines a plan for incorporating primary and archival research into first year writing course designs. Correlating directly with recent college initiatives and composition best practices, archival research asks students to see themselves as experts, engage in rhetorical activism, and take on college-to-career projects.

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The Rhetorical Possibilities of Accessibility

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Rachel Donegan Volume 4 Chapter Description In this chapter, I provide some basic terminology and context for disability and accessibility and discuss how access features not only have direct benefits for a disabled audience, but are beneficial rhetorical bonuses for all writers (nondisabled and disabled).* By emphasizing access in their writing projects, students have the

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Technologies of Trust: Creating Networks of Goodwill for Collaboration

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Lance Cummings, Rin Jackson, & Moriah Yancey Volume 4 Chapter Description Most students dread that fateful “group project,” often for good reasons. Our past experiences with group work sometimes don’t speak well to this kind of project.* But most writing in the 21st century is deeply collaborative and happens mostly in digital spaces. Observing the

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