New: Release of the special issue of Open Words, “Multilingual Student Writers in Higher Education”

I am thrilled to share the release of the special issue, "Multilingual Student Writers in Higher Education," which I led as guest editor for the Open Words journal. The entire issue is available for access at https://wac.colostate.edu/openwords/. I have also attached a PDF copy of this issue along with this email. Please feel free to share this information with your colleagues. The special issue features the following articles:

Guest Editor’s Introduction: Access Necessarily Precedes Success: Multilingual Student Writers in Higher Education, by Jagadish Paudel

Re-Addressing the "Problem of PCW": Rethinking a Bridge-Writing Course in the Interest of Supporting Multilingual Students, by Joyce Meier, Xiqiao Wang, and Cheryl Caesar

“How Can I Sound Politician?”: A Case Study of Multilingual Writer Transferring Prior Knowledge in Multimodal Composing, by Xiao Tan

Encouraging Language Negotiation in Institutional Spaces: A Qualitative Case Study in Pedagogies to Promote Translanguaging in Writing Courses, by Maria Isela Maier

Storytelling in First Year Writing, by Anthony DeGenaro and Lena Hakim

Piloting a Language Autoethnography in a First-Year Writing Program: A Study of Five Multilingual Student Writers, by Michael J. Faris, Michelle E. Flahive, Elizabeth Hughes Karnes, and Callie F. Kostelich

Multilingual Epicenters: First-Year Writing and the Writing Center as Critical Sites of Multilingual Sustainability for Language-Minoritized Students in Higher Education, by Marco F. Navarro, Sara P. Alvarez, and Eunjeong Lee

Multilingual Student Writers in Higher Education: Increasing Support for Multilingual Student Writers in a Writing Center Context, by Allie Johnston

Best, Jagadish

Jagadish Paudel, Chair
Roland Dumavor, Vice Chair
Kathleen Lyons, Past Chair