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December 2025

  1. Composing with AI
    Abstract

    Composing with AI provides research about the rise of generative AI in composition studies, focusing on histories, policies, reports of classroom and student use, multimodal composing and teaching AI literacies.

  2. ChatGPT is Not Your Friend: The Importance of AI Literacy for Inclusive Writing Pedagogy
  3. Teaching Knowledge Labor and Literacy for the Age of AI and Beyond with Rhetorical Information Theory
  4. Interfacing Chat GPT: A Heuristic for Improving Generative AI Literacies

June 2020

  1. 3.2 Developing Critical Literacies
  2. 3.3 Developing Rhetorical Literacies

January 2019

  1. The Archive as Classroom: Pedagogical Approaches to the Digital Archive of Literacy Narratives
    Abstract

    Honorable Mention for the 2019 Computers and Composition Distinguished Book Award Since its public launch in 2008, the Digital Archive of Literacy Narratives (DALN) has collected approximately 7500 unique contributions of people’s literacy experiences from across the globe and from a variety of backgrounds. The Archive as Classroom: Pedagogical Approaches to the Digital Archive of Literacy Narratives showcases the variety of innovative ways educators have used this resource in classroom practice.

  2. Reid & Hancock, “Teaching Basic Writing in the 21st Century: A Multiliteracies Approach”
  3. Newman, “Understanding Others’ Stories to Find Our Own: Helping Linguistically Diverse Students Analyze, Create, and Evaluate Digital Literacy Narratives”
  4. Michaels, “Social Media, the Classroom, and Literacy Sponsorship: An Analysis of DALN Narratives through Positioning Theory”
  5. III. Literacy
  6. Bahl, “Religion, Remediated: Engaging Religious Literacies with the DALN”
  7. Myatt & Krueger, “The DALN as Mentor Text: Empowering Students as Literacy Agents”
  8. Rodríguez, “‘Writing is much more than putting ink on paper’: Preservice Teachers and Socially Responsible Literacies for a Connected and Digital World”

July 2018

  1. Racial Shorthand: Coded Discrimination Contested in Social Media
    Abstract

    Racial Shorthand disrupts the dominant shorthand by demonstrating how communities of color produce multimodal projects and leverage the affordances of social media in ways that extend the rhetorical traditions and literacy practices of these communities.

November 2016

  1. 8.04 » Implications for Supporting Literate Development
  2. Expanding Literate Landscapes: Persons, Practices, and Sociohistoric Perspectives of Disciplinary Development
    Abstract

    Challenging narrow, institutionally-bounded accounts of the relations among writing, the social, and learning, Expanding Literate Landscapes presents five longitudinal case studies of writers to argue for a more dispersed, complexly mediated and heterogeneously situated understanding of trajectories of identity, practice, and literate development.

  3. 8.02.06 » Representing the Semiotic Richness of Literate Lives

March 2015

  1. Strategic Discourse: The Politics of (New) Literacy Crises
    Abstract

    John Trimbur's much-cited 1991 essay, "Literacy and the Discourse of Crisis," persuasively argues for a view of literacy crisis discourse as "always strategic," and demonstrates the ways in which it has reified "the meritocratic educational order" (285-286). This project considers Trimbur's argument close to 25 years later, examining twenty-first century literacy crisis discourses immersed inextricably in a technological age. The notion of literacy crisis is a popular trope in the field of composition, rhetoric and literacy studies. Scholars such as Bronwyn T. Williams, Michele Knobel, Colin Lankshear, James Paul Gee, Cynthia L. Selfe and Gail Hawisher among many others have developed innovative heuristics in order to understand the nature of literacy learning in a digital age and enrich readers' understanding of the epistemologies underlying new literacy practices. However, this innovative book project considers the ways in which literacy crisis discourses have reinvented themselves in the twenty-first century through a richly textured view of these varied discourses.

  2. 1 Distracted by Digital Literacy: Unruly Bodies and the Schooling of Literacy Stacey Pigg

March 2013

  1. Stories That Speak to Us
    Abstract

    Stories That Speak to Us —a digital collection of scholarly, curated exhibits—is designed to investigate literacy narratives from a number of perspectives: to explore why they are important, what information they carry about reading and composing, why they might be valuable, not only for scholars and teachers, but also for librarians, community literacy workers, individual citizens and groups of people. As the editors and authors collectively suggest, literacy narratives are powerfully rhetorical linguistic accounts through which people fashion their lives; make sense of their world, indeed construct the realities in which they live.

  2. Stories that Speak to Us: Exhibits from the Digital Archive of Literacy Narratives
  3. Foreword: Five Ways to Read a Curated Archive of Digital Literacy Narratives by David Bloome
  4. A Brief Introduction to the Digital Archive of Literacy Narratives (DALN) by H. Lewis Ulman
  5. Remixing the Digital Divide: Minority Women’s Digital Literacy Practices in Academic Spaces by Genevieve Critel
  6. Multilingual Literacy Landscapes by Alanna Frost & Suzanne Blum Malley
  7. Claiming Our Place on the Flo(or): Black Women and Collaborative Literacy Narratives by Valerie Kinloch, Beverly J. Moss & Elaine Richardson
  8. Ludic Literacies: Mapping the Links Between the Literacies at Play in the DALN by Jamie Bono & Ben McCorkle
  9. The Third Eye: An Exhibit of Literacy Narratives from Nepal by Ghanashyam Sharma
  10. “So my computer literacy journey . . .”: Re-creating and Re-thinking Technological Literacy Experience through Narrative by Julia Voss
  11. Mapping Transnational Literate Lives: Narratives, Languages and Histories by Amber M. Buck & Gail E. Hawisher
  12. Articulating Betweenity: Literacy, Language, Identity, and Technology in the Deaf/Hard-of-Hearing Collection by Brenda Jo Brueggemann (writer) & and Julia Voss (designer)
  13. Optimistic Reciprocities: The Literacy Narratives of First-Year Writing Students by Scott Lloyd DeWitt
  14. The Role of Narrative in Articulating the Relationship Between Feminism and Digital Literacy by Christine Denecker, Kristine Blair & Christine Tulley
  15. Rhetorical Responsiveness: Responding to Literacy Narratives as Teachers of Composition by Cynthia L. Selfe and the DALN Consortium
  16. Afterword: A Matter of EmPHASis: Literacy Narratives and Literacy Narratives by James Phelan

February 2012

  1. Transnational Literate Lives in Digital Times
    Abstract

    Winner of the 2013 CCCC Advancement of Knowledge Award Winner of the 2013 CCCC Research Impact Award Transnational Literate Lives in Digital Times is a book-length project designed to document how people outside and within the United States take up digital literacies and fold them into the fabric of their daily lives. This research contributes to our knowledge of the impact of digital media on literate practices and also provides a basis for developing approaches for studying and teaching successful practices.

  2. What These Literacy Narratives Suggest

March 2010

  1. Generaciones' Narratives
    Abstract

    Teachers, students, and administrators interested in traditional literacy, electronic literacy, bilingualism, Latino/a studies, and media literacies showcasing the rise of technological literacies across generations and within the marginalized population on the U.S.-Mexico border will better understand literacy experiences in niche locations. From over a hundred surveys and interviews and a final focus on over 40 participants, Generaciones’ Narratives reveals how terms like sponsor and gateway become nuanced in significant ways, and how both refined and new terminology useful for niche studies comes into play.