Writing Spaces: Readings on Writing, Volume 5, is a collection of Creative Commons licensed essays for use in the writing classroom, all written by writing teachers for students.
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Volume 5 updates and adds to previous volumes by offering essays on topics such as advanced rhetoric, translanguaging and code-meshing practices, revision workflows, environmental justice, social annotation, Wikipedia, plagiarism, accessibility, data analysis, writing knowledge transfer, and more.
Table of Contents
- We Write Because We Care: Developing Your Writerly Identity by Glenn Lester, Sydney Doyle, Taylor Lucas, and Alison Overcash
- Dispositions Toward Learning by Jennifer Wells
- Is This for a Grade? Understanding Assessment, Evaluation, and Low-Stakes Writing Assignments by Jason McIntosh
- How Writing Happens by Zack DePiero and Ryan Dippre
- What Color Is My Voice? Academic Writing and the Myth of Standard English by Kristin DeMint Bailey, An Ha, and Anthony J. Outlar
- What Can I Add to the Discourse Community? How Writers Use Code Meshing and Translanguaging to Negotiate Discourse by Lisa Tremain
- Environmental Justice: Writing Urban Spaces by Mattius Rischard
- Enabling the Reader by Kefaya Diab
- Everything’s Biased: A Guide to Determining When Bias Matters by Danielle DeRise
- Reading in Conversation: A Student’s Guide to Social Annotation by Michelle Sprouse
- “I Passed First-Year Writing—What Now?” Adapting Strategies from First-Year Writing to Writing in the Disciplines by Amy Cicchino
- Strategies for Analyzing and Composing Data Stories by Angela M. Laflen
- “Doing Research Is Fun; Citing Sources Is Not”: Understanding the Fuzzy Definition of Plagiarism by Rachel Buck and Silvia Vaccino-Salvadore
- Elaborate Rhetorics by David Blakesley
- What Is Rhetoric? A “Choose Your Own Adventure” Primer by William Duffy
- Thinking Across Modes and Media (and Baking Cake): Two Techniques for Writing with Video, Audio, and Images by Crystal VanKooten
- You Are Good for Wikipedia by Matthew Vetter and Oksana Moroz
- The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly of Peer Review by Erin E. Kelly
- Changing Your Mindset about Revision by L. Lennie Irvin
- What’s the Diff? Version History and Revision Reflections by Benjamin Miller
- Navigating Your Collaborative Project by Ellen Cecil-Lemkin and Tamara Gluck
- Writing Science in the First Year of College: Why It Matters to STEM Students and How STEM Students Benefit from It by Christopher Thaiss and Stephanie Wade
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