College Composition and Communication Feb 2021

Communal Justicing: Writing Assessment, Disciplinary Infrastructure, and the Case for Critical Language Awareness

Anne Ruggles Gere ; Anne Curzan ; J. W. Hammond ; Sarah Hughes ; Ruth Li ; Andrew Moos ; Kendon Smith ; Kathryn Van Zanen ; Kelly L. Wheeler ; Crystal J. Zanders

Abstract

Critical language awareness offers one approach to communaljusticing, an iterative and collective process that can address inequities in the disciplinary infrastructure of Writing Studies. We demonstrate justicing in the field’s pasts, policies, and publications; offer a model of communal revision; and invite readers to become agents of communal justicing.

Journal
College Composition and Communication
Published
2021-02-01
DOI
10.58680/ccc202131160
Open Access
Closed
Topics
assessment multimodality revision

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