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While current approaches to theorizing rhetorical circulation often designate digital rhetorics as their object of study, this designation unintentionally closes off rhetorical inquiry. Analog, material rhetorics, like graffiti, resemble digital rhetoric in the circulation of their rhetorical effects. The study of graffiti rhetorics therefore invit...
The Legacy of James Moffett is a valuable resource designed for classroom teachers, graduate students, scholars, and curriculum specialists in English, English education, and writing studies. It serves as a practical guide, delving into Moffett's theory, methodology, and educational practices. By documenting Moffett's significant impact on the teac...
"Far out in the uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of the Western Spiral
arm of the Galaxy lies a small unregarded [field known as Writing Studies]" (p. 5). So
begins, with a slight edit on my part, Douglas Adams's book, The Hitchhiker's Guide
to the Galaxy, the popular science fiction novel and the central conceptual referent on which t...
In this chapter, we present the findings of a systematic review of L1, international, longitudinal writing research from 2000-2020 across the following categories: research design, study settings, participant characteristics, methods of data collection and analysis, publication, and funding. Our study shows that during the past twenty-one years of...
A book review of the first monograph to focus exclusively on graffiti from a composition and rhetoric perspective.
https://compositionforum.com/issue/53/marine-lesh-review.php
In this article, we argue for an expanded conception of language assess-ment based on the principles of James Moffett and centered on outfitting teachers with useful information with which to guide their practice and optimize student learning. Importantly, we begin the article by demonstrating that Moffett’s interest in assessing language growth oc...
In this special edition of Moffett’s Corner, Sheridan Blau, former Professor of Practice in the teaching of English at Teachers College, Columbia University interviews the noted composition theorist Sondra Perl in order to solicit her memories of the late James Moffett.
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...
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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...
James Porter Moffett (1929–1996) was a ground-breaking teacher, author, and theorist of language learning who had a profound impact on the fields of English Education, Language Arts, Composition, and Educational Psychology in the mid to late 20th century and was the first member of the Assembly for Expanded Perspectives on Learning (AEPL). In the i...
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/
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,...
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...
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...