In this article, the author explores rhetorical contextual languaging (as it relates to writing) as critical translingual assemblages of material ecologies[left right arrow]affectual solidarities. Situated in the scholarship on critical translingual literacies, affect, and assemblage theory, two data-theory intervals are featured as exemplars.…

Questioning the common practice of treating texts as property that can be stolen and instead exploring the social and rhetorical dimensions that define what is owned (and what is not), as well as what can be taken and appropriated, I drew on data from a yearlong qualitative investigation of young children writing with technology to interrogate how…

There are multi-faceted, invisible layers within a writer that impact the writer's processes. Since these layers are not necessarily brought to conscious awareness or made visible, however, the writing process contains unintentional influencers. I forward these notions to argue for intentional pedagogical practices that not only consider ideas of…

Writing is an essential literacy skill which requires many opportunities for practice and improvement. In this article, it is described how a schoolwide post office offered students opportunities and increased motivation to write, while also allowing teachers autonomy in how they would use it to increase writing experiences among students. A post…

This article considers the geographies of literacy learning by analysing maps that children drew about their experiences. The maps were created during a mapping-and-talking session with the researchers. Sociomaterial ways of thinking were used to foreground the relationships between people, texts, tools, technologies and spaces, in which literacy…

The broader aim of this study is the corpus-based investigation of the written language production process. To this end, temporal markers have been keylog recorded alongside the writing processes to exploit pauses to segment the speech product into linear units of performance. However, identifying these pauses requires selecting the relevant…

This discussion introduces a heuristic to guide writing instruction with adolescents and young adults. Our framework, called "Open World Writing," consists of six writing territories (vision, material, design, voice, flow, polish) that provide focus and clarity for writing and educators working across academic and creative writing…

'Suturing Language' argues that cut-up poetry enacts a simultaneous practice of close-reading and close-writing. As an embodied and ecological practice of creative writing, cut-up poetry draws together contexts from social, cultural, and academic writing. In turn, the writing process offers a way to open the classroom to the contexts that creative…

Navigating academic writing, the waters of academic life, should be a sustainable practice, which supports the learning and personal development of writers. However, cultures of writing differ in their sustainability. The sustainability of writing cultures relies heavily on whether writing is a solitary or social practice and whether it is…

This is an exploration of challenges faced by bachelor's students during the thesis-writing process and the development of a model to simplify and visualise this research journey. Drawing from literature and insights gained through supervision observations and interviews, the model addresses common challenges such as topic selection,…

Early writing includes both transcription skills (e.g., handwriting and spelling) and composing skills (e.g., the generation, manipulation, and translation of ideas into writing), yet early composing is not as well understood in academic research or by classroom educators. This study seeks to understand 1) how children retained or modified core…

This study examines the potential to use non-expert, crowd-sourced raters to score essays by comparing expert raters' and crowd-sourced raters' assessments of writing quality. Expert raters and crowd-sourced raters scored 400 essays using a standardised holistic rubric and comparative judgement (pairwise ratings) scoring techniques, respectively.…

"Teaching Poetry in a Digital World" supports English language arts (ELA) educators for grades 6-12 to incorporate digital literacy in their classrooms by teaching the reading and writing of poetry. In an increasingly digital age, educators must adapt to meet the changing needs and interests of their students by incorporating technology…

This study examines the potential to use non-expert, crowd-sourced raters to score essays by comparing expert raters' and crowd-sourced raters' assessments of writing quality. Expert raters and crowd-sourced raters scored 400 essays using a standardised holistic rubric and comparative judgement (pairwise ratings) scoring techniques, respectively.…

The author is an authoritative person who creates the literary world. The relevance of our article is a narrative analysis of Mukhtar Magauin's work, one of the writers with a clear style and personality, who has developed his own school of writing in Kazakh literature. Since ancient times, the recognition of the writer's personality by analyzing…