Dear Colleagues,
We are pleased to announce the publication of Volume 56 of Composition Forum, now available at: https://compositionforum.com/.
This issue includes the following features:
· An interview with Ian Barnard on politics and the state of higher education
· A retrospective on “Why Johnny Can’t Write”
· Six articles addressing topics including rhetorical strategies of access-making, qualitative research methods and coding participant drawings, quantitative RAD research, habits of mind in first-year writing, writing transfer and multilingual curricular development, and collaborative and equitable assessment in a graduate composition pedagogy course
· Four program profiles describing the American University of Sharjah Writing Center, the Engineering Physics Program at Chalmers University of Technology in Sweden, the Professional Graduate Diploma in Education in Scotland, and the First-Year Composition Program at the University of Central Florida
· Four book reviews: Multimodal Composing and Writing Transfer (Alexander, Davis, Mina, Shepherd, 2024), Threshold Conscripts: Rhetoric and Composition Teaching Assistantships (Macauley, Jr., Anglesey, Edwards, Lambrecht, and Lovas, 2023), Translingual Pedagogical Perspectives: Engaging Domestic and International Students in the Composition Classroom (Kiernan, Frost, and Malley 2021), and Mentorship/Methodology: Reflections, Praxis, and Futures (Gruwell and Lesh, 2024)
· A symposium on Critical Race Theory
Thanks for taking the time to read this volume of Composition Forum!
All my best,
Shane Wood
Communications Editor
Composition Forum