Jonathan Marine

George Mason University | GMU · Department of English

Students who are engaged writers are likely to produce better writing and to enjoy writing more than students who are disengaged writers. Yet, we are unaware of any existing tool that validly and reliably measures writing engagement. In this article, we describe what writing engagement is and why it is important. Then, we present the Writing Engage...

This article argues that latrinalia is an important and potentially beneficial source of public writing deserving of educators' and researchers' attention. I start by comprehensively reviewing the research record of latrinalia in order to demonstrate its status as a legitimate academic field while surfacing the major trends, questions, and fault li...

A doctoral student and a high school teacher partnered to design a student-centered unit that positioned students to learn from each other.

Toward a Re-Emergence of James Moffett's Mindful, Spiritual, and Student-Centered Pedagogy is an edited collection comprised of thirteen original chapters and two vital reprints of Moffett’s work that have been out of print for more than thirty years. All of the contributions in this volume are dedicated to pushing forward Moffett’s prescient ideas...

Writing As a Human Activity offers a collection of original essays that attempt to account for Charles Bazerman’s shaping influence on the field of writing studies. Through scholarly engagement with his ideas, the 16 chapters—written by authors from Asia, Europe, North America, and South America—address Bazerman’s foundational scholarship on academ...

Purpose This book review seeks to clarify the contribution of the (2022) edited collection, International Models of Changemaker Education to the field of work-applied management. It proposes that the many international models of changemaker education described in this book offer management professionals an array of innovative methods which support...

In 1966, more than 50 scholars from the UK, US, and Canada convened at Dartmouth College to discuss the state of the profession of English teaching, ultimately proposing a “growth” model of language learning which contrasted with the skills-based models of curriculum sequencing prevalent at the time. While debates about the impact of the 1966 Dartm...

For this special issue we invited researchers who had presented at the 2021 virtual conference to develop full papers based on their conference presentations. Given that the papers emerged in alignment with the goals of ISAWR, they reflect those values, namely: the bringing together of different writing research traditions from around the world; fu...

Para este número especial, invitamos a los investigadores que habían participado en la conferencia virtual de 2021 a desarrollar un artículo completo a partir de sus ponencias. Estos artículos surgen de manera alineada con los objetivos de ISAWR, de tal forma que reflejan sus valores, tales como: la confluencia de diferentes tradiciones de investig...

In ancient Roman mythology, Janus is the god of beginnings, transitions, and endings. For him, as for the other deities of ancient mythology, beginnings and endings were indistinguishable. For the TAs and GTAs of modern higher education, Janus represents an important referent – we are at once facing outward to the institutions we serve much as we f...

This annotated bibliography contains several of the most important works on or about James Moffett, including articles, book chapters, special issues, and commemorative homages to his life and work.

This bibliography contains all known publications of the well known language learning theorist James Moffett, including books, articles, book chapters, transcribed speeches, and research reports.

Book review of McCann, T. M., & Knapp, J. V. (2021). Learning to Enjoy Literature: How Teachers Can Model and Motivate. Rowman & Littlefield. https://ncte.org/resources/journals/english-education/reviewing-the-field/

This article reports on the implementation of a formative assessment tool (the Writing Engagement Scale, or WES) in grades 3–5 in schools in the United States. We used confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) to collect validity evidence for the WES for our population. Results demonstrated acceptable validity and reliability. In addition, survey results...

(https://kairos.technorhetoric.net/26.2/reviews/marine/index.html) Colton and Holmes’ book, "Rhetoric, Technology, and the Virtues", seeks to update the neglected Aristotelian paradigm of virtue ethics in order to sketch a guide to rhetorical and ethical action in modern, digitally mediated contexts. In the Introduction, the authors grapple with t...

While student engagement is a well-researched educational construct that is positively associated with student performance, writing engagement has received less attention. Drawing on engagement research generally and reading engagement research specifically, the authors present writing engagement as a multidimensional construct including affective,...

Past research on bathroom graffiti (latrinalia) has utilized disparate collection and analysis methodologies. Here, we seek to devise a rigorous, unified methodological framework for the collection and analysis of latrinalia. We begin by reviewing the disjointed methodological approaches and findings of previous research on bathroom graffiti in ord...