Videos
Class
Interviews: Jennie, Dominic, Jake Migler, Jessica Siegel, Suzanne Al-Kayali,
and Tim Kayali, and two unnamed students: Unnamed One and Unnamed Two.
Contributor
Dr. Amy Taggert, North Dakota State University
A
collection of eight individual interviews in which students describe their
writing processeses and how they define themselves as writers. Students discuss
the similarities and differences between personal and academic writing as
they’ve experienced them in their lives. Contributes to the national
conversation on writing by expanding our understanding of writing and writers
through personal story.
Playing with the Boys: An examination of Title IX
Contributor: Kelly Kreamer
Words
and Pictures: Michael Odom
Contributors: Dr. Shannon Carter and
Angela Kennedy, Texas A&M-Commerce
Artist Michael Odom lectures on the
combined effects of writing and art, specifically how his art contains written
texts (including weather and geographical maps) and how those texts contribute
to the artistic process. After his presentation there is a short question and
answer session that describes his art projects and the direction that his style
has taken through writing. Contributes to the national conversation on writing
by sharing on writer’s composing processes (writing with paint, writing with
images, writing with symbols).
Standardized:
Dr. Shannon Carter
Contributor: Dr. Shannon Carter, Texas
A&M-Commerce
“Standardized” is a digital ethnography
(unfinished) about Eric Carter (b. 1973), whose experiences with traditional
literacy education and associated technologies (pen/paper) were altogether
unsatisfying. Video essay also describes his movement towards technological
literacies. The video then progresses into a discussion of literacies in our
daily lives, including video games, music, and writing in/for digital
environments. Contributes to the national conversation on writing by sharing
one man’s literacy narrative. Video is incomplete and in process.
Underworld:
The Other Side of Here (Some of Our Conversation on Writing): Dr. Kathryn
Jacobs, Dr. Susan Stewart, Jordana Hall
Contributors: Dr. Shannon Carter and
Angela Kennedy, Texas A&M-Commerce
Joint
lecture for graduate courses in composition theory (Carter]) and creative
writing (Jacobs) at Texas A&M-Commerce. Professors Jacobs and Stewart
(writers) with and Hall (illustrator) articulate what really happens when
writers collaborate. They discuss the writing process in composing their young
adult book, Underworld: The Other Side of Here and how collaboration
influenced the creation of the story. Underworld includes images, prose,
and poetry. Contributes to the national conversation on writing by revealing
the impact of collaboration on writing processes, including the ways in which
composing collaboratively and in multiple modalities (images/prose/poetry)
informed one particular project.
Worth
Celebrating: Dr. Shannon Carter
Contributor:
Dr. Shannon Carter, Texas A&M-Commerce
This
video commemorates the Celebration of Student Writing (CSW) at Texas A&M
University-Commerce and describes the curriculum from which these student
projects emerged. The CSW celebrates the original research of first-year
college students with a focus on culminating project for the first-year
composition sequence. It serves as an argument that student research at any
level should be celebrated alongside the promotion of the multiple literacies
found throughout the process. Contributes to the national conversation on
writing by sharing the original research of first-year composition students
studying literacy as it manifests itself in a variety of contexts. Suggests
that everyone is a writer and literacy is everywhere.
Martin
Luther King Mural Video: Spring 2008 Basic Writing Students
Contributor:
Dr. Susan Bernstein, LaGuardia
Community College, City
College of New York
Mural (see “images” below) and
associated video revealing writing as activism and civic engagement, where the
"text" is image-based and its relevance communicated aurally. Video
is of students in Professor Bernstein’s basic writing class presenting their
MLK-inspired mural to their classmates. Contributes to the national
conversation on writing by exhibiting the ways in which writing can be said to
do good—for the writers themselves but also for the communities of which they
are a part.
Images
Martin
Luther King Mural: Spring 2008 Basic Writing Students
Contributor:
Dr. Susan Bernstein, LaGuardia
Community College, City
College of New York
Mural and associated video (see “videos”
above) revealing writing as activism and civic engagement, where the
"text" is image-based and its relevance communicated aurally. Mural
is in response to MLK’s “A Time to Break the Silence.” Contributes to the
national conversation on writing by exhibiting the ways in which writing can be
said to do good—for the writers themselves but also for the communities of
which they are a part. Participants include students in Professor Bernstein’s
basic writing class.
Hope for
America [Graphic Essay: PDF]
Hope for America [Reflection: MSWord]
Images
with Text
Cosmopolitan
Cover
Contributor:
Discusses
how a cover from the magazine Cosmopolitan uses subliminal messages for
women through the media. Remixes visual elements from the genre to foreground
these messages. Contributes to the national conversation on writing by
revealing the role of critical thinking in negotiating everyday texts in order
to push against marginalizing influences.
Unto Whom
Much Is Given: Literacy Sponsorship of the Morton Family: Melissa Knous
Contributor:
Melissa Knous, Texas A&M-Commerce
"Unto Whom Much Is Given" is
an autobiographical ethnography (autoethnography) which supports Deborah
Brandt's notion of literacy sponsorship. Integrates family photos with argument
about literacy and literacy learning. Contributes to the national conversation
on writing by expanding our understanding of literacy development as sponsored
through both Bible-based discourses and the academy.
No
Child Left Behind: Changing a Child’s Education For The Worse
Reflection
Writing
is Something Everyone Does Whether They Know It Or Not
Contributor: Lorie J. Traynham,
Spartanburg Writing Project,
June 25, 2008
This
written essay discusses the author’s opinion as to what people read and write
and when. It also discusses why writing is therapeutic.
Your
Child and His Name:
Cover w/ Photo
Reflection
An assignment written as a magazine article that was designed for prospective
parents deciding the name of their child, this article pleads to parents to
name their children in what might be considered to be more traditional names.
The Migratory Patterns of the Narwhal Fruit Fly:
Reflection
Text
(Classroom activities)
NCoW
includes many lesson plans, syllabi, and othere elements to support the
pedagogical mission embedded in this initiative. Classroom activities have been
contributed by NCoW participants from across the country and at a variety of
levels (high school English, first-year composition at the college level,
graduate courses, etc)
Teaching
Hiroshima and Nagasaki Through Active History:
Reflection
Audio
Writers on
Writing: Angela Kennedy
Contributor:
Angela Kennedy, Texas A&M-Commerce
This
podcast features writers (including poet Denise Duhamel) as they talk about
writing and how that happens at the writing center. Interviewees discuss both
creative and academic writing processes as they explain how everyone is a
writer.
National
Conversation on Writing Podcast: Texas A&M University and SCWCA 2008
Contributor:
Dr. Valerie Balester, Texas A&M University-College Station
At
the South Central Writing Centers Association in Norman, OK, in 2008, Dr.
Valerie Balester (A&M-College Station) and Dr. Shannon Carter
(A&M-Commerce) hosted a workshop that discussed The National Conversation
on Writing, asking the session members to contribute mini-interviews that
described how their work with writing centers can inform what we know about
writing and writers. Concludes that not only is everyone is a writer and has
his or her own individual voice, but that writing centers are well positioned
to support goals like these. Contributes to the national conversation on
writing by sharing stories from professionals working elbow to elbow with
writers in writing centers across the region.
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