Composition Studies 53.1 (Spring 2025)

The oldest independent periodical in the field, COMPOSITION STUDIES publishes original articles relevant to rhetoric and composition, including those that address teaching college writing; theorizing rhetoric and composing; administering writing programs; and, among other topics, preparing the field's future teacher-scholars. All perspectives and topics of general interest to the profession are welcome. We also publish Course Designs, which contextualize, theorize, and reflect on the content and pedagogy of a course. Contributions to Composing With are invited by the editor, though queries are welcome.CONTENTS OF COMPOSITION STUDIES 53.1 (Spring 2025): Editorial Introduction: Charting Our Course Here and Forward by Zachary Beare and Jacob Babb AT A GLANCE: New Methodologies for Researching Reflection: Reflection-in-Motion in the Writing Classroom by Jaclyn Fiscus-Cannaday ARTICLES: Risk-Taking in Labor-Based Grading Contracts for Collaborative Multimodal Composing by Daniel Libertz Grading Contracts and the Behavioral Commonplaces of Composition Pedagogy by Mathew Gomes Aligning with and through Difference: Tracing the Thingifications of a Multi-Campus Outcomes Statement by Jessica Ouellette and Ryan Dippre Through Thick and through Thin: Domains of and Tensions surrounding Expertise in a Subset of Writing Studies Scholarship by James P. Purdy The Eco-Cosmopolitan Campus: Expanding Place-Based Writing Instruction through Ecocomposition by Luke Rodewald COURSE DESIGNS: The ACT Model in First-Year Writing: Neuroplasticity and Student Well-Being Post-COVID by Casie J. Fedukovich and Brooke Mulhollem ENGL 111L: Grammar and Writing Workshop by Megan J. Busch WRIT 400: Writing for Nonprofits by Meghan A. Sweeney WHERE WE ARE: THE PRESENT AND FUTURE OF ACADEMIC CONFERENCES: Nimble and Sustainable: The Future of Feminisms and Rhetoric and Coalitional Conferences by Cristy Beemer and Rebecca S. Richards Reimagining Academic Conferences and Professional Volunteerism in a World of Academic Precarity by Genie Nicole Giaimo What's the Future for Academic Conferences? What Should Be Their Future? by Kofi J. Adisa and Frankie Condon Cohesion, Community, and Belonging: The Emergence of the TYCA National Conference as an Open-Access Advocacy Space by Joanne Baird Giordano and Charissa Che Living Our Principles: Designing an Accessible and Inclusive Virtual Conference by Theresa Evans, Kevin E. DePew, Amy Cicchino, and Cat Maherty Retracing Our (Mis)steps: The Purpose and Value of Our CWPA Conference by Erin Lehman, Kelly Blewett, Callie F. Kostelich, Amanda Presswood, and Mary Lourdes Silva Unintended Benefits: Conference Through and Beyond the COVID-19 Pandemic by Caleb González, Annie Halseth, Jesse McLain, and Mike Palmquist Reflexivity, Accountability, Relationships: Conferencing through the Lens of Watson 2021 and 2024 by Andrea Olinger, Shayani Almeida, and Steve Shoop BOOK REVIEWS: The Black Box: Writing the Race, by Henry Louis Gates, Jr. reviewed by Kimberly A. Bain Sanctuary: Exclusion, Violence, and Indigenous Migrants in the East Bay, by Cruz Medina reviewed by Katie Silvester The New Work of Writing Across the Curriculum: Diversity and Inclusion, Collaborative Partnerships, and Faculty Development, by Staci M. Perryman-Clark reviewed by Gideon Kwashie Kwawukumey Rhetoric and Guns, edited by Lydia Wilkes, Nate Kreuter, and Ryan Skinnell reviewed by Sean Murray 2024 REVIEWERS Read more