Dear Colleagues,
We are pleased to announce the publication of Volume 55 of Composition Forum, now available at: https://compositionforum.com/.
This issue includes the following features:
- An interview with Ira Shor on critical pedagogy, mentorship, and the value of higher education
- Seven articles addressing topics including graduate student preparation and professional development, feminist pedagogy and quantitative writing, conversations on style and substance, visual mapping, horizontal mentoring in graduate programs, data on the writing studies job market, and teaching for transfer
- Four program profiles describing the University of Tennessee’s Rhetoric and Writing PhD program/comprehensive exams, Fairfield University’s Writing Across the Curriculum (WAC) program, the Program for Writing Across Campus at the University of Washington, Seattle, and Colorado State University’s Writes Program
- Five book reviews: TextGenEd: Teaching with Text Generation Technologies (Vee, Laquintano, Schnitzler, 2023), Pivotal Strategies: Claiming Writing Studies as Discipline (Lewis, 2024), Teaching Writing Through the Immigrant Story (Ostman, Tinberg, and Martínez, 2021), Bodies of Knowledge: Embodied Rhetorics in Theory and Practice (Knoblauch and Moeller, 2022), and Dynamic Activities for First-Year Composition: 96 Ways to Immerse, Inspire, and Captivate Students (Reznizki and Coad, 2023)
Additionally, we’re excited to share our new website (and logo) redesign!
All my best,
Shane Wood
Communications Editor
Composition Forum