March 30, 2021Mentoring for Learner Success: Bridging Known and Newby Maureen Vandermaas-PeelerIn order to enhance young children’s learning in the course of everyday interactions, parents often facilitate the acquisition of new knowledge by bridging, or establishing a connection between something familiar and something new (Vandermaas-Peeler, Westerberg, and Fleishman 2019). In a…
March 23, 2021How Alumni Writers Define Writing Success and Negotiate Writing in the Workplaceby Julia BleakneyThis post is the first in a series in which we feature the ongoing scholarship of each research team participating in the Center for Engaged Learning (CEL) 2019-2021 research seminar on Writing Beyond the University: Fostering Writers’ Lifelong Learning and…
March 11, 2021Coding Visuals in Writing Beyond the University Researchby Paula RosinskiWriting Studies research has long attended to and included visuals, especially in the sub-fields of visual rhetoric, professional writing, and technical communication. For example, scholars have examined and developed taxonomies of the relationship between words and images, the visual design…
March 4, 2021Four Steps to Better Data Visualizationsby Jennie GoforthIf you’ve collected data in your higher education research on engaged learning, chances are you’d like to present it to your readers in an effective, visually pleasing, and impactful way. The problem is that data visualization is a complex topic,…