Dear colleagues and friends,
On behalf of the entire editorial team, I am happy to share multiple updates at Writing Spaces, the open access textbook series for postsecondary writing education materials. We hope these new contributions will be valuable resources for your teaching. Please help us promote and celebrate our new authors by sharing with your professional networks.
Special Cluster on Writing in Global Spaces https://writingspaces.org/essay-index/
Three new essays that tackle writing education from an international perspective. These contributions, edited by Rachel Buck, will be part of Volume 7 of Writing Spaces.
- Reflecting on Literacy Identities Through Writing Personal Narratives by Ruth Li
- Writing as the World Falls Apart: A Filipino Perspective on Academic Writing by Florianne Jimenez and Aileen Salonga
- Writing Counterstories: Ways to Challenge Dominant Narratives in FYC by Sana Sayed
45 new contributions in the Activities & Assignments Archive https://writingspaces.org/aaa/
As an open access companion resource to the Writing Spaces textbook series, the Activities & Assignments Archive offers pedagogical resources grounded in current practice and scholarship, organized by topic. Each document presents a pedagogical activity or assignment, curated by teacher-scholars for writing students, and reviewed by the Writing Spaces editorial team. The latest round of contributions, including 45 new assignments and activities, were reviewed and published by Matt Vetter, Bryna Siegel Finer, Xiao Tan, and Colin Charlton, and Brian Ernst.
- Outside the Frame: An Image Analysis – Stephen Paur
- What Is Writing Like for You? Using Metaphors to Explain Writing and Writer’s Block Experiences in First-Year Writing – Olivia Imirie
- Collaborative Problem-Solving: Deliberative Discourse toward Group Consensus – Sarah Moon
- Rhetorical Moves Analysis of Emails – Lisa Parzefall
- Learning to Listen for Immersion and Rhetorical Choices – Tanya K. Rodrigue and Kyle D. Stedman
- Learning to Incorporate Source Material with a Full Menu of Options: Developing a Discrete Skill in Isolation – Stephen David Grover
- Experimenting with Style: Cyborg Voices – Benjamin Hojem and Rhiannon Scharnhorst
- Communication Guide Assignment – Alexandria Hanson
- Reflective Writing About Podcasts for Critical Language Awareness – Madeline Crozier
- Map-Making and Storytelling – Gitte Frandsen
- Gen AI: Large Language Models and Linguistic Whitewashing – Chris Mayer
- Building Inclusive Classrooms: Equipping Educators with an Introductory Social Justice Lesson Plan – Bethany Meadows and Kimberly Groves
- Shaping Multilingual Identity: Translanguaging Practices Through Digital Storytelling Workshop – Alexandra Krasova
- Summaries: GAI vs. Human – by Tiffany Buckingham Barney
- Collaborative Building of a Course AI Policy – Benjamin Goodwin
- Informative or Argumentative Infographic – Erin Breaux
- The Zine Project: Reorienting Concepts of Composition through Multimodal Reflection – Tania de Sostoa-McCue
- Intersectional Identity Photo Essay – Jackie Mohan
- Cultural Analysis Podcast – Jackie Mohan
- Reflecting with Zines: A Multimodal Alternative to the Final Reflective Essay – Kelli R. Gill
- “Getting a Peek Behind the Wizard’s Curtain”: Teaching Students How to Read Academic Articles with Haas’ ‘Learning to Read Biology’ – Kevin E. DePew
- Ethical Use of Generative AI for Conducting Research – Aimee Jones
- Multimodal FAQ Assignment – Mary Laughlin
- AI and Language: Facilitating Emergent Participation in New Discourse Communities – Kelsey Hawkins
- Reflective Agency: Journaling to Locate a Writing Identity – Meredith McKinnie and Tabitha McBride
- “So What?” Speed Dating: Articulating an Argument’s Significance- Shannon Mooney
- Beautiful Sentences – Mark Shea
- Literary Analysis via Songs – Sean Oros
- Large Language Models and Chain Stories: An Exploration of Creativity and Artificial Intelligence – Chris Mayer
- Activist Archival Project – by Julie C. Bates and Sarah Warren-Riley
- Source Speed Dating: Where Do Research Topics Come From? – Hannah T. Davis
- Fuzzy Logic: How the Fuzzy Definition of Plagiarism Is Getting Even Fuzzier – Steven Engel and Staci Shultz
- “Read, Feed, and Seed”: Fostering Research Writing in Classroom Spaces – Mustafa Masihuddin Siddiqui
- Discourse Communities Manual Presentation – Andrew H. Yim
- The Time Capsule: A Narrative Composition for Developing Social Support Systems – Michele N. Zugnoni
- Cultivating Metacognitive Growth: Teacher-student Rubric Co-construction for Enhanced College Writing Instruction – Tong Zhang
- “Are Cats Good? An Important Study”: Using a Meme Article for Teaching Writing of Analytic Summaries – Wei Xu and Hongni Gou
- Impersonation Podcast: Understanding Untruth in Uncertain Times – Joseph S. Vuletich
- Who Is This Space Designed to Exclude? Instructions and Usability/Accessibility Analysis (IAUA) – Megan Von Bergen
- The Grammar of Text Messaging: Analyzing Non-Standard English to Develop Genre Awareness – Kristen Vogel
- Writing, Translating, and Revising Menus: An International Virtual Exchange Project – Massimo Verzella
- Teaching Three ‘Writing for University and Beyond’ Course Concepts Simultaneously Utilizing One Three-minute Scene from a Bollywood Film – Kanika Verma
- Proposal for Change on Campus – Sarah Swofford
- Genre Analysis of Project Proposals – Sarah Swofford
- Brand Style Guide Assignment – Madeleine Sorapure
Volume 6: Technical Writing Spaces https://writingspaces.org/writing-spaces-volume-6/
The sixth volume of the Writing Spaces series explores writing in technical and professional communication. Edited by Pavel Zemliansky and Kirk St.Amant, this volume features 17 new essays by diverse contributors.
- Who Is the User? Researching Audiences for Technical Documents by Emma J. Rose
- Assessing Sources for Technical Communication Research by Therese I. Pennell
- Last to Be Written, First to Be Read: Writing Memos, Abstracts and Executive Summaries by K. Alex Ilyasova
- Drafting Technical Definitions and Descriptions by Quan Zhou
- Let’s Party: Composing a Review of the Literature on a Technical Topic by Daniel P. Richards
- Stronger Together: Collaborative Work in the Technical Writing Classroom by Laurence José
- Worth a Thousand Words: Constructing Visual Arguments in Technical Communication by Candice A. Welhausen
- Technical, Scientific, and Business Presentations: Strategies for Success by Darina M. Slattery
- Writing Technical Content for Online Spaces by Yvonne Cleary
- Social Media as a Space for Today’s Technical Communication Work by Clinton R. Lanier
- Introduction to Usability and Usability Testing by Felicia Chong and Tammy Rice-Bailey
- Beyond Audience Analysis: Three Stages of User Experience Research for Technical Writers by Joanna Schreiber
- “Not So Fast”: Centering Your Users to Design the Right Solution by Candice Lanius and Ryan Weber
- Basic Approaches to Creating Accessible Documentation Projects: What Is Accessibility, and What Does It Have to do with Documentation Projects? by Cathryn Molloy
- Designing Multimodal Technical Instructions for Cross-Cultural Resonance Using a Culturally Inclusive Approach by Audrey G. Bennett
- How to Write for Global Audiences by Birgitta Meex
- Composing Technical Documents for Localized Usability in the International Context by Keshab Raj Acharya
Thank you for your continued support!
The Writing Spaces Editorial Team
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Matt Vetter (mvetter)
Mary Stewart (mkstewart)
Trace Daniels-Lerberg (trace.daniels)
Bryna Siegel Finer (brynasf)
Xiao Tan (Xiao.tan)
Colin Charlton (colin.charlton)