Kells’ “The Rhetorical Imagination of Writing Across Communities: Nomos and Community Writing as a Gift-Giving Economy”
Kells, Michelle Hall. “The Rhetorical Imagination of Writing Across Communities: Nomos and Community Writing as a Gift-Giving Economy.” Reflections, vol. 16, no. 1, Fall 2016, pp. 149-166. Kells uses the classical concept of nomos to position writing across communities (or WACommunities) “as a counter-discourse” to other models of writing curricula (153). Kells explains nomos as…
Eodice, Geller, and Lerner’s “The Power of Personal Connection for Undergraduate Student Writers”
Eodice, M., Geller, A.E., & Lerner, N. (2019). The power of personal connections for undergraduate student writers. Research in the Teaching of English, 53(4), 320-339. Eodice, Geller, and Lerner’s article (2019) extends work they did in their study The Meaningful Writing Project (Eodice, Geller, & Lerner, 2016) by identifying that what makes writing meaningful for…
Engel, Lam, Meyer, & Nix’s “How Does Expansive Framing Promote Transfer? Several Proposed Explanations and a Research Agenda for Investigating Them”
Engle, R.A., Lam, D.P., Meyer, X.S., & Nix, S.E. (2012). How Does Expansive Framing Promote Transfer? Several Proposed Explanations and a Research Agenda for Investigating Theme. Educational Psychologist, 47(3), 215-231. In a divergence from much of the work on transfer I’ve read in writing studies, Engel, Lam, Meyer, & Nix (2012) bring physical and social…
Fine’s “The Sociology of the Local: Action and its Publics”
Fine, G.A. (2010). The sociology of the local: Action and its publics. Sociological Theory, 28(4), 356-376. Fine’s text feels like the sociologist’s analog to the lingiust’s/literacy scholar’s understanding of discourse communities. Fine’s theorizing of the local–action, interaction, social organization–felt synonymous Gee’s or Johns’ definition of discourse communities. Fine (2010) writes “a local sociology asserts that…
Eberly’s “From Writers, Audiences, and Communities to Publics: Writing Classroom as Protopublic Spaces”
Eberly, Rosa. “From Writers, Audiences, and Communities to Publics: Writing Classrooms as Protopublic Spaces.” Rhetoric Review, vol. 18, no. 1, 1999, pp. 165-178. Eberly theorizes publics, heavily and helpfully around Dewey, to define pedagogical approaches to defining publics in teaching. Through connecting rhetorical concepts–like audience, invention, stasis theory–with public address, Eberly identifies parallels between publics…
Devet’s “The Writing Center and Transfer of Learning: A Primer for Directors”
Devet, Bonnie. “The Writing Center and Transfer of Learning: A Primer for Directors.” The Writing Center Journal, vol. 35, no. 1, 2015, pp. 119-151. Devet’s primer is comprehensive in scope, a useful introduction for any scholar-educator interested in learning more about transfer of learning. Devet helpfully pulls from educational psychology and composition studies to define…
Hill’s “Tutoring for Transfer: The Benefits of Teaching Writing Center Tutors about Transfer Theory”
Hill, H.N. (2016). Tutoring for transfer: The benefits of teaching writing center tutors about transfer theory. Writing Center Journal, 35(3), 77-102. This is a great study for writing center administrators (WCAs), and writing program administrators (WPAs) more broadly, who want a comprehensive theoretical and practical understanding of how transfer theory and pedagogy work. Hill’s methods…
Giroux’s “Public Pedagogy & the Responsibility of Public Intellectuals: Youth, Littleton, & the Loss of Innocence”
Giroux, Henry A. “Public Pedagogy and the Responsibility of Intellectuals: Youth, Littleton, and the Loss of Innocence.” JAC, vol. 20, no. 1, 2000, pp. 9-42. Giroux’s work here amplifies what’s at the heart of public pedagogy: the tension that arises from society’s in/formal teaching to reinforce a particular status quo–or dominant discourse (a la Gramsci)–and…
Sandlin, O’Malley, & Burdick’s “Mapping the Complexity of Public Pedagogy”
Sandlin, J.A., O’Malley, M.P., & Burdick, J. (2011). Mapping the complexity of pedagogy scholarship: 1894-2010. Review of Educational Research, 81(3), 338-375. https://www.jstor.org/stable/23014296 Sandlin, O’Malley, and Burdick reviewed 420 scholarly sources that identify the key term “public pedagogy” (with few exceptions) and organize this literature into the following categories: citizenship within and beyond schools popular culture…
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