The Joan Ganz Cooney Center, with support from the Walton Family Foundation, has embarked upon a three-year initiative that aims to help shape educational technology products that address specific literacy outcomes. In 2023, the Cooney Center Sandbox was launched to help digital media innovators answer the following questions: "How do you…

This article argues that writing studies should perform something it terms "construct-focused RAD research," or quantitative RAD research involving psychometric measurements, to study cognitive constructs that pertain to student writing. Construct-focused RAD research, which today is rare in the field, can provide a clearer sense of what…

The article addresses the multifaceted concept of practice as it relates to writing, drawing parallels to various domains such as sports, music, and professional life. Through reflections on the dichotomy between practice and performance exemplified by Allen Iverson's famous quote, Goldblatt explores how writing is perceived and approached as a…

Undergraduate research is a widely recognized, high-impact educational practice that offers student researchers and their mentors unique opportunities to engage in shared, discipline-based intellectual inquiry. For undergraduate research in writing studies and rhetoric to flourish at two- and four-year institutions, whether it is embedded in…

In this article, University of Maryland writing program administrators Alexis Walston and Jessica Enoch explore the "Composition Studies" archive and its trove of articles from 1972 to the present with a focus on the emotive dimension of teaching and administration. As Walston and Enoch have worked to support a large community of…

Exploring multimodality and transfer from the perspective of transduction (a multidisciplinary term that describes a change in form as something moves from one state to another) reveals conceptual overlap between the two concepts. Transfer is fundamentally multimodal because anything moving from one "place" to the next must change its…

How is it possible to research emotions with minimal disruption? In the research that was the basis for this Case Study, the researcher wanted to understand how participants in a writing group experienced emotions during their academic writing and how they used emotion regulation and interpersonal emotion regulation during writing group sessions.…

The interconnection between reading and writing is a topic of great significance. Reading and writing, both fundamental components of literacy, go hand in hand as communicative acts involving written texts. Both activities involve meaning-making and print-related processes. Meaning-making encompasses accessing, activating, and retrieving…

This work examines articles published in the "Writing Center Journal" between 2001 and 2020 in order to understand more about the publishing, scholarship, and research practices of the field of writing center studies. Through analyzing articles published in the "Writing Center Journal" between 2001 and 2020, this work makes…

Genre has long been used by Writing Studies ethnographers as a theoretical orientation and analytical tool to bridge text and context. This article describes how genre-based ethnographies as "methodology" might get taken up at the level of "method." Drawing on a genre-based ethnographic study as an example and guide, this…

This article examines how writing studies scholarship has responded to changes in society's understanding of gender. Combining grounded theory and corpus linguistic analysis using a self-compiled corpus of journal issues published between 1970-2020, the authors track changes in the usage of gendered versus gender-neutral nouns and pronouns with…

The author reflects on receiving the entire archival history of "Composition Studies" upon becoming editor of the journal in 2013. This caused the realization that the growth of the field and the livelihoods of those within it is not as stable as it would seem from the outside, and that it is heavily dependent on individuals to preserve…

In this article, we analyze how linguistic terms have been borrowed and reinterpreted across disciplines. Specifically, we describe how terminology associated with Applied Linguistics (AL) changed meaning as it entered the new disciplinary context of Writing Studies (WS), often resulting in confusion and turbulence between the two fields. As in…

The past few decades have witnessed a remarkable surge of research interest in written corrective feedback (WCF). Given its pivotal role in the writing classroom, WCF has remained one of the most vibrant and dynamic areas for scholarly investigations. The aim of this article is to chart future directions for WCF research. To do this, it first…

In this collaborative essay Audrey Simango, Matthew Stadler, and Alison Turner--Reader/Advisor/Editors (RAEs) at The GOAT PoL--explore the subject of money. Most discussions about money have focused on "debates over compensation" of research subjects (Snow et al. 54), or connections between community writing and well-funded projects,…