We are very pleased to announce the release of Writing Spaces: Readings on Writing Volume 4, with 19 new open-access essays for use in your composition courses! Writing Spaces: Readings on Writing offer multiple perspectives on a wide range of topics about writing. In each chapter, authors present their unique views, insights, and strategies for writing by addressing undergraduate readers directly. Volume 4 adds to previous volumes on important topics such as linguistic diversity, digital privacy, feedback, online source evaluation, grading criteria, social media, racial literacy, public writing, primary data analysis, digital collaboration, writing workflows, genre theory, knowledge transfer, archival research, and accessibility.
The new volume of Writing Spaces can be downloaded directly from: https://writingspaces.org/?page_id=726 or from the WAC Clearinghouse: https://wac.colostate.edu/books/writingspaces/writingspaces4/
For printed copies for your classes, you can order it from Parlor Press: https://parlorpress.com/products/writing-spaces-readings-on-writing-volume-4
Virtual Release Celebration
To celebrate the release of Volume 4, please join authors, editors and other community members for a Virtual Release Party, to be held via Zoom on Monday, Sept. 27 – 6 pm ET/3 pm PT. Hear from editors about WS updates (including new website features) and authors about their chapter contributions. Everyone is welcome!
Zoom Information
Writing Spaces Virtual Release Celebration
Time: Sep 27, 2021 06:00 PM Eastern Time (US and Canada)
Join from PC, Mac, iOS or Android: https://iupvideo.zoom.us/j/7318977718
More details about Writing Spaces, Volume 4:
Writing Spaces Volume 4 was co-edited by Dana Lynn Driscoll (Indiana University of Pennsylvania), Megan Heise (Indiana University of Pennsylvania), Mary K. Stewart (California State University San Marcos), and Matthew Vetter (Indiana University of Pennsylvania). Our chapter listing and contributors are:
· Workin’ Languages: Who We Are Matters in Our Writing by Sara P. Alvarez, Amy J. Wan, and Eunjeong Lee
· Four Things Social Media Can Teach You about College Writing—and One Thing It Can’t by Ann N. Amicucci
· Effectively and Efficiently Reading the Credibility of Online Sources by Ellen Carillo and Alice Horning
· Writing with Your Peers by Raquel Corona, Kami Day, and Michele Eodice
· Technologies of Trust: Creating Networks of Goodwill for Collaboration by Lance Cummings, Rin Jackson, and Moriah Yancey
· How to Analyze Data in a Primary Research Study by Melody Denny and Lindsay Clark
· The Rhetorical Possibilities of Accessibility by Rachel Donegan
· At Work in the Archives: Place-Based Research and Writing by Lynée Lewis Gaillet and Jessica Rose
· What’s That Supposed to Mean? Using Feedback on Your Writing by Jillian Grauman
· Writing toward Racial Literacy by Mara Lee Grayson
· Creating, Using and Sharing Information in Research Communities by Cassie Hemstrom and Kathy Anders
· Public Writing for Social Change by Ashley J. Holmes
· Make Your “Move”: Writing in Genres by Brad Jacobson, Madelyn Pawlowski, and Christine M. Tardy
· Understanding and Maintaining Your Privacy When Writing with Digital Technologies by Lindsey C. Kim
· What Are We Being Graded On? By Jeremy Levine
· Beyond Language Difference in Writing: Investigating Complex and Equitable Language Practices by Cristina Sánchez-Martín
· Read the Room! Navigating Social Contexts and Written Text by Sarah Seeley, Kelly Xu, and Matthew Chen
· The Importance of Transfer in Your First Year Writing Course by Kara Taczak
· Find the Best Tools for the Job: Experimenting with Writing Workflows by Derek Van Ittersum and Tim Lockridge