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 …
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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 …
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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 schoolspopular culture and …
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