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Jiang, Jialei; Vetter, Matthew A. – Composition Forum, 2020
Wikipedia's gender gaps are both well-established and well-challenged, and while Wikipedia-based assignments have become more common in composition, teacher-scholars have not fully explored the opportunities for feminist pedagogy offered by the encyclopedia. This article reports on a teacher research study designed to examine the efficacy of the…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Feminism, Rhetoric, Electronic Publishing
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Mitchum, Catrina; Rodrigo, Rochelle; Staples, Shelley – Composition Forum, 2020
This program profile describes the process the Writing Program at the University of Arizona took to create a pathway to course completion for students during the pandemic-induced remote transition in Spring 2020. While the majority of students continued to have access to the hardware and software necessary to complete the term online, some…
Descriptors: Inclusion, Writing Instruction, Distance Education, College Students
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Herzl-Betz, Rachel – Composition Forum, 2022
This article seeks to theorize the pedagogical work disabled instructors navigate to create accessible writing classrooms. Through retroactive analysis, I introduce the concept of Access Negotiation Moments (ANMs) as limited, low-stakes contexts where disabled instructors define the limits of their own access needs. Ultimately, I theorize a…
Descriptors: Writing Instruction, Teaching Methods, Persuasive Discourse, Disabilities
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Cedillo, Christina V. – Composition Forum, 2018
In this article, I argue for pedagogies that explicitly center the embodied perspectives of students and their audiences. Using Stephanie Kerschbaum's concept of "anecdotal relations," or orientations towards disability that inform rhetorical transactions, I analyze my academic experiences as a Chicana with "invisible"…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Racial Factors, Ethnicity, Disabilities
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Basgier, Christopher – Composition Forum, 2017
To illustrate how genre pedagogy and public writing pedagogy can inform one another, this program profile describes the second-semester composition course at University of North Dakota, ENGL 130: College Composition II: Writing for Public Audiences. In this course, genre works as a rhetorical bridge across an interlinked sequence of research,…
Descriptors: Literary Genres, Writing (Composition), College English, Institutional Characteristics
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Vie, Stephanie; Dieterle, Brandy – Composition Forum, 2016
Comics--both digital and print--increasingly make their way to the classroom. Scholars in the field have illustrated the pedagogical value of comics, but there remains little discussion as of yet about how comics can inform critical literacy, a necessary skill for twenty-first-century communication. Here the authors discuss an approach to…
Descriptors: Cartoons, Visual Aids, Critical Literacy, Scaffolding (Teaching Technique)
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Alvarez, Steven – Composition Forum, 2016
Foodways literacies offer composition courses a rich opportunity to enact a "sensual pedagogy" that explores affect through cross-cultural culinary encounters. In this assignment description, I present a class I developed at the University of Kentucky, Taco Literacy, as an example of such pedagogy. The class explores the languages and…
Descriptors: Food, Writing (Composition), Foreign Countries, Literacy
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Yam, Sharon – Composition Forum, 2018
This article posits that inviting students to interrogate and share their worldviews through personal narratives could promote mutual inquiry across difference. Detailing a series of assignments and activities developed from the model of invitational rhetoric, this article analyzes students' writing and reflections to demonstrate how mutual…
Descriptors: World Views, Personal Narratives, Student Attitudes, Assignments
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Warren-Riley, Sarah; Hurley, Elise Verzosa – Composition Forum, 2017
With the proliferation of digital media and other forms of technologically mediated communication, this article argues that critical multimodal pedagogical approaches to public writing--particularly through interrogating mundane, everyday texts--have the potential to engage students with advocacy and its role in shaping public discourse. In this…
Descriptors: Learning Modalities, Teaching Methods, Collaborative Writing, Educational Technology
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Habib, Anna S.; Haan, Jennifer; Mallett, Karyn – Composition Forum, 2015
In the U.S., international enrollment trends have increased the pedagogical imperative to address multilingual graduate student writers' linguistic needs/growth in the process of their developing disciplinary expertise. In the context of this internationalization effort, what can two disciplines--Applied Linguistics and Composition--constructively…
Descriptors: English for Academic Purposes, Graduate Students, Multilingualism, Second Language Learning