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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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The Importance of Transfer in Your First Year Writing Course

critical thought and analysis, demystifying writing assignments, genre and discourse community, rhetorical situation, volume 4, Writing Transfer /

Kara Taczak Volume 4 Chapter Description This essay explores the importance of transfer in first year writing. Transfer is the ability to take writing knowledge and practices from one context and use it to repurpose or reframe it in a new/different writing context. To help students better understand how to effectively transfer, this essay examines

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Beyond Language Difference in Writing: Investigating Complex and Equitable Language Practices

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Cristina Sánchez-Martín Volume 4 Chapter Description The goal of this essay is to inquire about the role of language difference in the learning of writing, especially in academic settings where normative and exclusionary views of language and writing dominate. The essay begins with the description of a recipe, a genre that includes explicit examples of

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What Are We Being Graded On?

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Jeremy Levine Volume 4 Chapter Description Grades are an (often) unmentioned but all-powerful force in the writing classroom. We know that grades mean a great deal to students, motivating many of their decisions in the classroom.* But because grading is uncomfortable and inexact work, we rarely discuss it openly in class — a silence that

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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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Make Your “Move”: Writing in Genres

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Brad Jacobson, Madelyn Pawlowski, & Christine M. Tardy Volume 4 Chapter Description When approaching new genres, students often wonder what kind of information to include and how. Rhetorical moves analysis, a type of genre analysis, offers a useful, practical approach for students to understand how writers achieve their goals in a genre through various writing

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Creating, Using, and Sharing Information in Research Communities

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Cassie Hemstrom & Kathy Anders Volume 4 Chapter Description This chapter extends John Swales’ theory of discourse communities into the sphere of information literacy, as it is conceptualized in the ACRL Framework for Information Literacy for Higher Education. We propose the concept of research communities, where discourse communities with the common goal of research use,

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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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How to Analyze Data in a Primary Research Study

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Melody Denny & Lindsay Clark Volume 4 Chapter Description This chapter introduces students to the idea of working with primary research data grounded in qualitative inquiry, closed-and open-ended methods, and research ethics (Driscoll; Mackey and Gass; Morse; Scott and Garner). We know this can seem intimidating to students, so we will walk them through 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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