July 19, 2021Going (Green) Rogue: Studying Non-Obligatory Writing, Neglected Writing Spaces, and Underrepresented Writersby Paula RosinskiThis is the fourth blog post in a series featuring the ongoing scholarship of each research team participating in the CEL 2019-2021 research seminar on Writing Beyond the University: Fostering Writers’ Lifelong Learning and Agency. This blog post features research…
May 11, 2021The Concept of “Controlling Spheres” and Complicating Assumptions about Student Writersby Paula RosinskiThis is the third blog post in a series featuring 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 Agency. This…
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…
August 4, 2020A Snapshot of Employers’ Expectations of Graduates’ Skills and Abilities in Technical Communicationsby Paula RosinskiIn a previous blog post, Julia Bleakney discussed some of the methods and documents that researchers have used to “capture employers’ expectations for the communication skills and abilities of college graduates in technical and engineering fields.” In this blog, I’ll…
August 14, 2019Key Scholarship Identified by Writing Beyond the University Seminar ParticipantsWriting Beyond the University: Fostering Writers’ Lifelong Learning and Agency seminar leaders – Julia Bleakney, Paula Rosinski, and Jessie L. Moore – asked seminar participants each to share citations and brief annotations for two texts (e.g., articles, chapters, books, etc.)…
July 11, 2019Studying Alumni Writingby Paula Rosinski and Julia BleakneyIn this blog, one in a series on topics connected to the 2019-2021 research seminar on Writing Beyond the University: Fostering Writers’ Lifelong Learning and Agency, we review the motivations, questions, methods, and populations of four studies that examined alumni…
June 5, 2019New Research Methods to Study Writing Beyond the Universityby Julia Bleakney and Paula RosinskiIn this blog, one in a series on topics connected to the 2019-2021 research seminar on Writing Beyond the University: Fostering Writers’ Lifelong Learning and Agency, we explore new possibilities for research methods that can be used to study writing…
October 22, 2018Writing Beyond the University in Self-Sponsored Writing Contextsby Paula RosinskiMy first blog post examined broadly the role rhetorical considerations—like audience, writer, genre/text, and context—might play in writing beyond the university research. In this second blog post, I focus on the kinds of writing that happen in the more narrowly…
September 7, 2018Rhetoric in Writing Beyond the University Researchby Paula Rosinski At the 2018 Conference on College Composition and Communication, I heard a few speakers wonder if the research on knowledge generalization and transfer had given enough attention to the role rhetoric might play in such learning situations….
