Dear colleagues,
On behalf of the editorial team (Ryan Ware, Kevin Roozen, and myself), we’re delighted to share that the inaugural issue of Literate Activity: Perspectives on Textual Practices in the World is now published on the WAC Clearinghouse! You can access the first issue here: https://wacclearinghouse.org/literate-activity/ and I’ve included a table of contents below.
Keeping Complexity Alive: Toward More Capacious Moves for Conceptualizing, Studying, and Representing What People Do with Texts
Ryan Ware, Bruce Kovanen, and Kevin Roozen
Literate Activity as a Semiotically and Culturally-Historically Expansive Theoretical Framework for Research and Practice
Paul A. Prior
Between Paper and Flesh: Semiotic and Performative Work of Artists’ Books
Sojin Cho
“I feel like I get my best ideas when I’m asleep…”: Dreams as Distributed, Embodied Semiotic Encounters in Disciplinary Problem-Solving
Sarah Durst
Composing Science: Everyday Genres and the Power of Literate Activity
Sue Hum, Jamie Crosswhite, and Briana Hauff Salas
The Work of Reading: An Institutional Ethnography of a Writing in the Disciplines Course
Melanie Doyle
Writing that Sticks: A Scene of Collaborative Literacy
Karla J. Murphy and Chelsie Schlesinger
Literacy in Keeping a To-Do List: A Mundane Autoethnography
CJ Wasson
Autopsy of a Breakup: The Matter of Love and Loss
Christine Ochs-Naderer
Best wishes,
Bruce