College Composition & Communication - Volume 64, Issue 4, 2013

Grounded in the principle that writing assessment should be locally developed and controlled, this article describes a study that contextualizes and validates the decisions that students make in the modified Directed Self-Placement (DSP) process used at the University of Michigan. The authors present results of a detailed text analysis of students’ DSP essays, showing key differences between the writing of students who self-selected into a mainstream first-year writing course and that of students who self selected into a preparatory course. Using both rhetorical move analysis and corpus-based text analysis, the examination provides information that can, in addition to validating student decisions, equip students with a rhetorically reflexive awareness of genre and offer an alternative to externally imposed writing assessment.

This essay explores potential connections between feminist historiography in rhetoric and the digital humanities. We investigate how specific digital innovations might invigorate feminist historiographic study, and we pause to consider how a turn to the digital might run counter to feminist methodological imperatives.

A study of twenty-five newly returned adult students finds that students with more process experience used more and more specific process analogies to construct their writing processes for school assignments than those with less process experience. Cues from peers and sense of academic identity also influenced transfer of process knowledge.

MOOC Response about “Listening to World Music” Steven D. Krause

What I Learned in MOOC Jeff Rice

On the Blunt Edge: Technology in Composition’s History and Pedagogy Shane Borrowman, editor

Going Wireless: A Critical Exploration of Wireless and Mobile Technologies for Composition Teachers and Scholars Amy C. Kimme Hea, editor

Rhetorical Delivery as Technological Discourse: A Cross-Historical Study Ben McCorkle

Digital Detroit: Rhetoric and Space in the Age of the Network Jeff Rice

Technologies of Wonder: Rhetorical Practice in a Digital World Susan H. Delagrange