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Jennifer Burke Reifman; Stacy Wittstock; Tricia Serviss; Beth Pearsall; Dan Melzer – College Composition and Communication, 2025
This article presents a constructivist writing placement framework, developed from the study of two pilot iterations of a local writing placement mechanism at a large public research university. Through preliminary analysis of data from these pilots, we present a model of constructivist writing placement and demonstrate how it helps move…
Descriptors: Collaborative Writing, Student Placement, Constructivism (Learning), Equal Education
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Laurie Grobman – College Composition and Communication, 2017
This article analyzes a public memory pedagogical partnership that disturbed the public memory of a community organization as an egalitarian space. How students, community partners, and I negotiated privately and represented publicly this legacy of the United States' worst shame required us--and me--to figure out what partnership and collaboration…
Descriptors: Collaborative Writing, Memory, Community Organizations, Partnerships in Education
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Kynard, Carmen; Eddy, Robert – College Composition and Communication, 2009
With the "counterhegemonic figured communities" of HBCUs as our lens, our idea(l)s are shaped within specific rewritings of race, access, and education that move us toward a new framework. Alongside teaching narratives, we foreground collaborative revisions of identity, critical mentoring, and coalition-work as an alternative theory of pedagogy…
Descriptors: Black Colleges, Mentors, Race, College Students
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Purdy, James P. – College Composition and Communication, 2009
Based on a study of observable changes author-users made to three Wikipedia articles, this article contends that Wikipedia supports notions of revision, collaboration, and authority that writing studies purports to value, while also extending our understanding of the production of knowledge in public spaces. It argues that Wikipedia asks us to…
Descriptors: Writing (Composition), Epistemology, Information Dissemination, Participative Decision Making
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Alexander, Jonathan – College Composition and Communication, 2009
This article explores the literacy narratives of two "gamers" to demonstrate the kinds of literacy skills that many students actively involved in computer and video gaming are developing during their play. This analysis becomes part of a larger claim about the necessity of re-visioning the place of gaming in composition curricula.…
Descriptors: Writing (Composition), Writing Instruction, College Instruction, Video Games
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Higgins, Lorraine D.; Brush, Lisa D. – College Composition and Communication, 2006
Personal narrative embeds the expertise of subordinated groups in stories that seldom translate into public debate. The authors describe a community writing project in which welfare recipients used personal narratives to enter into the public record their tacit and frequently discounted knowledge. The research illustrates the difficulties and…
Descriptors: Personal Narratives, Welfare Recipients, Publicity, Persuasive Discourse