Mohammad Nabi Karimi , Fatemeh Nami , Fatemeh Asadnia
{"title":"Professional development through CALL lesson study: L2 writing teachers’ perception and practice","authors":"Mohammad Nabi Karimi , Fatemeh Nami , Fatemeh Asadnia","doi":"10.1016/j.compcom.2023.102805","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.compcom.2023.102805","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Despite a surge of interest in teachers’ purposeful integration of technology into classrooms, research on L2 writing teachers’ digitallymediated writing instruction through lesson study (LS) is essentially lacking. To address this void, we investigated how L2 writing teachers perceived and practices professional development<span><span><span> (PD) through technology-assisted writing pedagogy within the three LS phases, i.e., collaborative LS design and implementation, peer observation and feedback, and peer revision. The data sources included the participant teachers’ screencasts, peer reflective comments/responses, and semi-structured interviews. The findings demonstrated that the experience of LS-oriented, digitallymediated writing instruction facilitated the writing teachers’ firsthand exploration of digital spaces and promoted their digitallymediated teaching competence through peer reflection, team coaching, and project-based practices. Additionally, the experience enhanced their pedagogical flexibility, confidence, and autonomy for adapting writing instruction to virtual platforms, assisted them in developing technology-mediated writing lesson plan, task design, and assessment rubric, engaged them in a small community of L2 writing teachers as digital materials co-producers, and helped them use digital tools to meet learners’ context-specific writing needs. The study promises implications for </span>CALL teachers and CALL teacher </span>education programs.</span></p></div>","PeriodicalId":35773,"journal":{"name":"Computers and Composition","volume":"70 ","pages":"Article 102805"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"50178616","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Constructing belonging through sonic composition","authors":"Chris Friend","doi":"10.1016/j.compcom.2023.102789","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.compcom.2023.102789","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Traditional students spend about four years residing at their undergraduate institutions. During those years, commuter students visit campus mostly on an as-needed basis, limiting their opportunities to establish a sense of belonging. Exacerbating the physical separation between students and their schools, <span>covid</span>-19-related lockdowns and closures challenged traditional means of community-building for institutions of higher education. A year without in-person classes in 2020–21 meant that in Fall 2021, both first- and second-year students, plus two cohorts of new employees, were new to campus facilities. Disbursing work and classes away from a centralized physical campus created a gap in experiential institutional memory. This article considers the problem of belonging within an urban-grant university community; shows how sound- and location-based digital composition projects preserve collective memory, provide forensic documentation of institutional legacies, and strengthen students’ awareness of temporal context; and theorizes the role of soundwriting projects in creating a sense of belonging for college students.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":35773,"journal":{"name":"Computers and Composition","volume":"69 ","pages":"Article 102789"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"50198346","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Digital storytelling for cultivating a participatory culture in first-year composition","authors":"Ali Alalem","doi":"10.1016/j.compcom.2023.102792","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.compcom.2023.102792","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>This article provides an inquiry-based, participatory framework for incorporating digital storytelling into first-year composition for the purpose of cultivating a participatory culture and empowering students to compose for rhetorical and digital delivery. The framework aims at reifying Henry <span>Jenkins (2009)</span> notion of participatory culture and engaging students with the core media literacies that are central to active participation in the digital age. To gauge the effectiveness of the framework, this study utilizes NVivo to code and thematically analyze 19 students’ reflections based on James E. <span>Porter (2009)</span> theoretical framework for digital delivery: body/identity, access/accessibility, distribution, interaction, and economics. This article also presents three case studies of student-created videos to further demonstrate the robust potential of the framework to foster social activism in the classroom and to spur students to cultivate rhetorical agency and awareness.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":35773,"journal":{"name":"Computers and Composition","volume":"69 ","pages":"Article 102792"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"50197945","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Letter from the editor","authors":"Kristine L. Blair","doi":"10.1016/j.compcom.2023.102794","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.compcom.2023.102794","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":35773,"journal":{"name":"Computers and Composition","volume":"69 ","pages":"Article 102794"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"50197946","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The uses—and limits—of distraction-free writing","authors":"Kory Lawson Ching","doi":"10.1016/j.compcom.2023.102793","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.compcom.2023.102793","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>This article examines the potential uses—and limits—of so-called “distraction-free” writing software, especially in academic writing contexts. It does so by presenting findings from two different qualitative studies, one in which graduate students experimented with such tools and reflected on their experiences, and another study in which undergraduate students composed reflective essays about their writing processes. Taken together, these findings indicate that distraction-free writing may only prove useful within a relatively narrow band of composing activity. Moreover, they suggest that participants’ beliefs and understandings of what constitutes writing activity—and distraction from it—are both broader and more fluid than tacit assumptions embedded in distraction-free writing software. Ultimately, the point is not necessarily to critique this class of software, but instead to use it as an occasion to better understand phenomena related to composing processes, such as attention, distraction, and motivation.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":35773,"journal":{"name":"Computers and Composition","volume":"69 ","pages":"Article 102793"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"50197949","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Technofeminism, Twitter, and the counterpublic rhetoric of @SheRatesDogs","authors":"Alexis Sabryn Walston","doi":"10.1016/j.compcom.2023.102788","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.compcom.2023.102788","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>This article analyzes the Twitter account @SheRatesDogs to determine if and how it rhetorically constitutes a technofeminist counterpublic. Ultimately, this essay argues that SheRatesDogs is a technofeminist counterpublic because it brings together Twitter users who want to end harmful, volatile, and sexist online discourse. The counterpublic uses common themes—humor, anger, and calls to action—to promote the public's awareness of these harmful discourse norms and to demand policy changes from various institutions.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":35773,"journal":{"name":"Computers and Composition","volume":"69 ","pages":"Article 102788"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"50197947","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Reconceptualizing literacy: Experimentation and play in audio literacy narratives","authors":"Kara Poe Alexander","doi":"10.1016/j.compcom.2023.102790","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.compcom.2023.102790","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>The literacy-as-success myth is prevalent in print-based literacy narratives<span> but how students relate to this dominant myth in modes beyond print is still unknown. To learn more about how students characterize literacy in a non-print-based mode, I analyzed 170 audio literacy narratives (ALNs) from students who uploaded their essay to the Digital Archives of Literacy. Findings show that students ignore the literacy-as-success myth and instead offer a capacious view of literacy as an ongoing, fluid process of experimentation, communal connection, and play. Students promote literacy not as an end point but rather as a place to invent and reinvent oneself and to rethink previously held definitions of literacy. They also utilize creative and innovative composing approaches that not only expand the literacy narrative genre but also facilitate reimagination of their literate lives. Ultimately, audio literacy narratives provide a valuable means to disrupting the literacy myth and promoting a more expansive understanding of literacy development that breeds curiosity, creativity, and invention. As a result, it is an important assignment in writing classrooms.</span></p></div>","PeriodicalId":35773,"journal":{"name":"Computers and Composition","volume":"69 ","pages":"Article 102790"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"50198345","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Beyond the break, theory on a dramatic scale","authors":"Stan Harrison , Richard Van Dyke","doi":"10.1016/j.compcom.2023.102795","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.compcom.2023.102795","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p><span>Ours is a time of epistemological break that requires a dramatic shift in our theorizing of the socioeconomic relationship of internet-articulated writers to data-mining corporations before we may formulate liberatory pedagogies and practices of internet writing. In the past, Computers and Writing (C&W) theorists joined others in describing a relationship that takes various names: surveillance capitalism, algorithmic capitalism, platform capitalism. Yet, to advance beyond the break, we posit that C&W theorists must recognize data mining as an exploitation belonging instead to a feudal mode of production. Unable to exploit the labors of proletarianized producers, capitalists on the internet transitioned to </span>feudalism<span> by enclosing the digital commons; distributing the commons as universal private property; using the rent form to alienate digicultural producers; subsuming producers’ sociolinguistic behaviors under the feudal mode; appropriating surplus labors of the class of unwaged labor; and placing heterogeneous, differentiated agents on the internet into two economic classes: peasants and lords. In this condition, the peasant class of digicultural producers cannot distance themselves through regulation, volunteerism, cloaking, and shielding. Their subsumed sociolinguistic activities cannot relieve exploitation because the two-sided act of languaging becomes three-sided with the addition of computer programs and AI acting as agents of digital lords.</span></p></div>","PeriodicalId":35773,"journal":{"name":"Computers and Composition","volume":"69 ","pages":"Article 102795"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"50197948","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"“Places to stand”: Multiple metaphors for framing ChatGPT's corpus","authors":"Salena Sampson Anderson","doi":"10.1016/j.compcom.2023.102778","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.compcom.2023.102778","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>As a prerequisite for the use of ChatGPT in writing classes, instructors should scaffold students’ (critical) digital literacy of the technology. Part of such scaffolding should include the exploration of relevant frameworks for conceptualizing ChatGPT, including the use of multiple metaphors, like <em>tool</em> and <em>collaborator.</em> By analyzing recent scholarly and news discourse regarding ChatGPT, prompts and outputs from ChatGPT, and the author's own writing process, the essay illustrates the limitations of the <em>tool</em> and <em>collaborator</em> metaphors, while emphasizing the value of multiple metaphors. In particular, the <em>tool</em> metaphor fails to account for ChatGPT's human components – namely its repurposing of thousands of authors’ writing and ideas, from which it draws with no transparency on sources. While the <em>collaborator</em> metaphor appears to address the need to cite ideas that are not one's own, ChatGPT fails to provide the accountability of a human author, even as it includes biased output derived from its training corpus, and while again failing to identify original sources. Medical and surgical metaphors highlight the ways that ChatGPT acts upon both the enormous corpus, or body of human writing, on which it was trained and our social body in our academic communities and beyond.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":35773,"journal":{"name":"Computers and Composition","volume":"68 ","pages":"Article 102778"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"50181995","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}