Computers and Composition

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June 2024

  1. Personalizing first-year writing course design and delivery: Navigating modality, shared curriculum, and contingent labor in a community of practice
    Abstract

    This article describes five first-year writing instructors’ experiences with personalizing shared curriculum across three different course delivery formats (face-to-face, hybrid, online). The data is drawn from teaching journals that the co-authors, a non-tenure track, part-time Lecturer and a tenured Writing Program Administrator, and three Graduate Student Teaching Associates completed throughout Fall 2022. The findings illustrate both benefits and drawbacks related to shared curriculum: discussing and troubleshooting curriculum in a community of practice is highly valuable, but separating course delivery from course design is challenging. In our study, those challenges manifested as disconnects between course content and disciplinary identity, as well as personal feelings of failure. On the other hand, the need to personalize shared curriculum across multiple delivery formats proved productive, especially when instructors used asynchronous online materials as a starting point to develop hybrid and face-to-face lesson plans. Ultimately, we advocate for more conversations about how writing programs can support contingent faculty as they personalize shared curriculum through both course delivery and design, and we offer an example of a successful community of practice that revises shared curriculum in response to community members’ experiences with teaching in multiple modalities.

    doi:10.1016/j.compcom.2024.102847

January 2000

  1. Looking elsewhere: career options other than the tenure-track teaching position for M.A.s and Ph.D.s in English
    doi:10.1016/s8755-4615(99)00031-6
  2. The tenure of the oppressed: ambivalent reflections from a critical optimist
    doi:10.1016/s8755-4615(99)00027-4
  3. Yes, a technorhetorician can get tenure
    doi:10.1016/s8755-4615(99)00026-2
  4. Shaping the imaginary domain: strategies for tenure and promotion at one institution
    doi:10.1016/s8755-4615(99)00030-4
  5. Technology and tenure: creating oppositional discourse in an offline and online world
    doi:10.1016/s8755-4615(99)00029-8