... .” Technical Communication Quarterly 14 : 327 – 33 . Gaming/Writing and Evolving Forms of Rhetorical Awareness Potentials of Interactive Digital Media for Democratic Classrooms Adrienne P. Lamberti and Anne R. Richards This article calls attention to the need to explore with greater...

...James J. Brown, Jr.; Andrew Engel; Whitney Hardin; Donora Hillard; Jason Kahler; Michael McGinnis; Derek Risse; Conor Shaw-Draves This article describes a graduate seminar titled “Interfaces and Infrastructures” that took place at Wayne State University. The course engaged with new media...

...Catherine Gubernatis Dannen This article argues that popular sports media (such as websites, TV shows, and tweets) can be used in the freshman composition classroom to introduce students to academic argument and to encourage them to reimagine their own writing styles. Because sportswriters...

...Ellen Cushman This article describes the culture of some English departments and the value system often attached to various forms of media in them. Because English studies so often values the letter, texts, and the consumption of these, it's been caught in its own hierarchy of signs. English...

... to enlighten or liberate.” Since sites like Facebook and MySpace are frequently cast as dangerous technologies in the media, students often expect a similarly negative stance when social networking sites are discussed in the classroom. I explain to my class that our goal is not to evaluate Facebook...

...Zack Shaw Abstract Instructors of writing-intensive disciplines infrequently integrate cinematic media in composition curricula. Furthermore, when instructors use films in composition courses, they often treat films merely as supplemental texts tangentially relevant to course topics and prioritize...

...Laura A. Ewing Public writing spaces, such as blogs and social media sites, are expanding quickly with new websites, web applications, and other interfaces constantly available to users. As these digital composing spaces continue to expand, it is important that writers are capable of operating...

...Craig Carey Abstract This article offers a critical and personal reflection on the role of curiosity, fragments, and play in creating meaningful encounters with archives in the college classroom. Drawing on play theory, poetics, media studies, and pedagogical theory, the essay reimagines archival...

... is that the way students raised in a culture saturated in electronic media learn is dramatically different than the way people learned a generation ago. That shift in learning is the exigence that requires a transformation of teaching. © 2008 by Duke University Press 2008 Bitzer, Lloyd. 1968...

... in the news media, an improved understanding of the strategies that scholars use when they gather and interpret textual evidence, and intelligent discussions about the implications of rhetorical strategies utilizing Otherness. From the Classroom The Composition...

.... In the course students examine relationships between men and women at home, in the workplace, and in the media while honing their skills of comprehension, summary, synthesis, and engagement. Semester after semester the author found that Flaubert’s nineteenth-century French work appealed to students, especially...

... are increasingly exposed through our body projections in the classroom and depictions of our body and sexuality in an increasingly savvy media in which Google, Facebook, and social networking sites create matrices of identifications and disidentifications that inform our classroom experiences. The article traces...

... that incorporating Downton Abbey and related social media to the study of novels of the early twentieth century enlivens the material, motivating students to enter into a period of history through its literature in service of not only increased historical and literary knowledge but also a more nuanced understanding...

... curiosity for the material that emerged in hallway conversations at the intersection of different disciplines, at the intersection of ecocriticism and feminist theory, and at the intersection of popular media and personal life. The authors argue that collaborative teaching and intersectionality led to more...

... that “reading” the film in terms of gender and genre can not only help students apply modes of textual analysis to narratives in other media but also alert them to the location of such narratives within larger discursive frameworks of defining national identities. Raazi presents a critical and ideological...

...Rachel McCabe Abstract Any attempt to control the content and conversations of first-year composition classrooms has become increasingly complicated by social media and technology. Building on the types of textual difficulty explored by scholars like Mariolina Rizzi Salvatori and Patricia Donahue...

...—inflected by feminist research, new literacy studies, critical theory, and digital media studies—provide teacher-scholars a promising set of strategies for conducting research and for representing students' work and our own scholarship in digital contexts...

...Marc Bousquet With the long-term decline in the cultural capital of literature and a steep decline in tenure-track hires in literary studies, faculty across English are rethinking their relationship to writing. As interest in digital media grows, together with rising enrollment in courses...

... the concept of literature to one organized around textuality: the production and reception of texts in all the media that use the English language. This will only be possible if we first recognize that English studies has really fallen. The English Curriculum after the Fall Robert Scholes Som natural...

... writing. Ultimately, the magazine remediates between traditional readers and new media approaches. Reading the New Yorker Serialized Texts and the Performative Present in the Writing Classroom Joseph J. Letter To readers focused on content, a glance at the cover of the New Yorker’s 2008...