The Sweetland Digital Rhetoric Collaborative is seeking reviewers for the 2019 MLA Annual Convention. We are particularly interested in conference reviews relating to digital rhetoric, digital pedagogy, and the digital humanities, though you can propose another session to review. Reviews are published on the DRC website to help facilitate conversations about conference sessions among attendees and others who may not have been present at the conference. If you would like to be a reviewer for a #mla19 session, please visit our Google form to sign up for a session to review. Reviews can be composed in written text (500-1500 words)…
Author: Katie Walkup
Adrienne Raw, Whitney Lew James
Katie is a doctoral student in Rhetoric and Composition at the University of South Florida. Her research interests are rhetoric of health and medicine, mental health literacy, digital rhetoric, and writing program administration.
As their time with the DRC draws to a close, the 2017-2018 DRC Fellows offer reflections on their experiences, what they’ve learned, and where they go from here. Jason Tham It’s a privilege to work with Naomi Silver, Anne Gere, Adrienne Raw, and the DRC Fellows this past academic year. Through the various projects we have undertaken and collaborated on, I have expanded my personal learning network immensely. The DRC has given me a platform to share my perspectives and ideas. More importantly, being a DRC Fellow lets me connect with scholars in the field who are doing very interesting…
At the DRC’s 2018 mini-workshop at Computers & Writing, our focus was on how the work of the DRC may fill the gap between classroom conversations and real world events. Using select materials curated from past DRC posts, attendees brainstormed problems and issues that arose on a topic and created activities building from it. Guiding questions included: What kinds of activities could this post/posts help us develop? What kind of writing classroom would this activity be for? (first-year composition, upper level writing, writing in the discipline, graduate classes, etc.) What is “writing out in the world?” How does this activity…
Digital Rhetoric Collaborative (DRC) Graduate Fellows are graduate students currently working in some area of digital rhetoric who want practical experience in online publishing with a major university press and a website that serves the community of computers and writing. Fellows will be selected by the editors and board of the DRC and will receive an annual stipend of $500 as well as recognition on the DRC website. Applications will be accepted until July 10, and the term of Fellowship is for one year with the possibility of renewal for one additional year. In collaboration with DRC colleagues, Fellows will be responsible for…