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2.	"A New and Twisty-er Form of Composition" (images and text)	Autism; PDD; Learning Approaches; Education; Communication; Composition Studies; Learning Disabilities; Alternative Literacies; Visual Literacies; Pipe Cleaners; "Twisties"; Graduate Course	My (Randi Karch) NCoW submission is based on a 2 hour interview with my cousin Andrew who is autistic. Because he finds it anywhere from difficult to downright impossible to communicate via the most

3.	"American Faces" (video poetry)	poetry, rural, Oklahoma, video, working class, alternative literacies, new media, rural literacies, small town, gas station, butcher, slaughterhouse, shotgun, grandfather	As a composition instructor, PhD student, and poet, I (Carl Wade Thompson) have tried to approach new media with an open mind, though I remain beholden to more traditional forms of writing. The curren

4.	"Art and Writing: A Duo to be Taken Seriously, Which in Turn Will not be Taken Seriously" (image and text)	Writing; Creative Writing; Contemporary Writing; Young Writers; Writing Across the Curriculum; Writing as a Profession; Historical Events and Writing; Authors; Alice Walker; Truman Capote; Ernest Hemingway; Sylvia Plath; Martin Luther King; Patrick Henry; Harriet Beecher Stowe; Uncle Tom's Cabin; Government; Religion; Seventh Grade; High School	Part of the online project Writing Our Hope, this document contains both written and visual texts to describe different writing genres with a focus on creative writing and writing (as a profession) as

5.	Calling All Writing Teachers (video)		General introduction to the 2009 manifestation of the National Conversation on Writing. Given the exciting ways in which the NCoW project has grown since its earliest stages in 2007, it seemed import

6.	CCCC-Conference on Basic Writing Workshop 2009 (interviews, video)	Literacy, Multiple Literacies, Multiliteracies, Writing, Developmental, Basic Writing, Basic Writers, At-Risk Writers	At the 2009 CBW Workshop (March 2009, San Francisco, CA), workshop leader Shannon Carter (Texas A&M-Commerce) introduced NCoW to participants and invited these basic writing professionals to talk abou

7.	"Conversations in Writing: Steven Sansabri of State Street" (images and text)	Writing; Process; Interviews; Writing Purposes; Homeless; Welfare; Music; Technical Writing	Powerpoint presentation reporting on an interview Purdue University student Samuel Needham had with Steven Sansabri, a 61-year-old man living on the streets of Lafayette, IN. In this presentation, Nee

8.	Cosmopolitan Cover (images and text)	Subliminal messages; Societal Norms; Women; Media; Cosmopolitan Magazine; Public Writing; Remix; Visual Images;	Contribution describes how a cover from the magazine Cosmopolitan communicates subliminal messages to women. Remixes visual elements from the genre to foreground these messages. Contributes to the nat

9.	"Difficulties Learning English" (artifact)	English as a Second Language; English; Mandarin Chinese; Reading for Academic Purposes; Language Acquisition; Composition Studies; International Students; Graduate Course	This submission provides an example of how this graduate student grappled with English texts during her first semester in a PhD program. Theresa's native language is Mandarin Chinese. Broken up into

10.	Enex 101 Assignment Guidelines (teaching materials, text)	Teaching Materials; First Year Composition, Writing Sequence, Teaching, Stories; Literacy Narrative; Profile, Personal Essay; Op-ed; Electronic Communication; Google	Instructions for writing assignments included in the common course syllabus for Enex 101 at University of Montana, as designed by Writing Program Administrator Kate Ryan (contributor). At the Universi

11.	Enex 101: "What's the Story about Writing?" (teaching materials, text)	Teaching Materials; First Year Composition; Writing Sequence; Teaching Approaches; Syllabus; Profile; Literacy Narratative; Public Writing	Common course syllabus for English 101 courses at the University of Montana, as designed by Writing Program Director Dr. Kathleen Ryan. At the University of Montana, first-year composition students wo

12.	English 571, Fall 2008 (teaching materials, text)	graduate courses, introduction to composition studies	Syllabus for graduate course ("Introduction to Composition Studies"). The goal of English 571 is to introduce graduate students to the field of composition studies, thus extensive use of the National

13.	English 597, Spring 2009 (teaching materials, text)	graduate courses, syllabus, new media, 21st century literacies, writing with new media, writing with sound, writing with images, writing with video, Creative Commons, copyright, remix, Common Culture, Lessing, Public Domain, Fair Use, intellectual property	The goal of "English 597: Writing with New Media" is to introduce graduate students to the scholarship, tools, resources, and experiences important to begin composing with new media. Given the importa

14.	"Hope for America" (images and text)	Remix; Graphic Narrative; Enron; Visual; Research Paper; Comic Life; Public Writing; Literacy Course	Graphic narrative centered on the illegal activities of Enron with a goal that of encouraging readers to learn more about the crimes. Blakely also discusses the choice of the medium (graphic narrative

15.	"HOPE Inside/Out: The Texas HOPE Literacy Project at Dawson State Jail" (images and text)	Writing Center; Prison Literacy; Tutoring; Recipes; Students; Illiteracy; Incarcerated Life, Prison; HOPE; Reading; Writing; Phonics; Teaching; Community Outreach; Community Literacy	Collection of inmate writings about literacy, literacy learning, and writing "on the inside." Contributors included members of a writing group (Spring 2007) guided by Carter (A&M-Commerce). All women

16.	"How to do a Poster: A Guide for Poster Presentations in the Humanities" (video)	Academic Writing; Science; Posters; Art; Presentations; Specialty Writing; Abstracts; Displays; Organization; Visual;	A workshop for students (Texas A&M-Commerce) interested in translating their print-based research into arguments presented visually. Dr. Salvatore Attardo (Profesor of English) and Michael Odom (Pain

17.	Interview with Amanda McCain (audio)	Literacy Narrative; Interview; Videogames; Massively Multiplayer Online Role Playing Game (MMORPG); James Paul Gee; Digital Literacies; Graduate Course; New Media	Audio taken from a class assignment where I was interviewed over certain literacies that I have. While I do enjoy reading and writing, I also enjoy video games and the literacy aspects involved in the

18.	Interview with Amy Taggart's Student "Dominic" (video)	Teacher Prep; Creative Writing; Bakhtin; Carnivalesque; Professional Writing; Revision; Grammar/Organization; Writing Process; Critical Theory;	(One of Eight) A collection of eight individual interviews in which students describe their writing processeses and how they define themselves as writers in response to questions provided by the Natio

19.	Interview with Amy Taggart's Student "Jennie" (video)	Unpublished writing; Personal vs. School; Place; Grammar; Literature vs. Composition; Teacher;	(Three of Eight) A collection of eight individual interviews in which students describe their writing processeses and how they define themselves as writers in response to questions provided by the Nat

20.	Interview with Amy Taggart's Student "Unnamed 1" (video)	English Major; "Default" Writer; School Writing; Analysis; Poetry; Creative Writing; Personal Writing; Legitimacy; Revision; Procrastination; Writing Process; Outlining; Structure; High School Writing; Academic Writing;	(Seven of Eight) A collection of eight individual interviews in which students describe their writing processeses and how they define themselves as writers in response to questions provided by the Nat

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