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Writing & Rhetoric

Publications


2009:

  • Michael Pennell and Libby Miles: "'It Actually Made Me Think': Problem-Based Learning in the Business Communications Classroom." Business Communication Quarterly. 72 (2009): 377-394.
  • Jeremiah Dyehouse, Michael Pennell, and Linda Shamoon: "Writing in Electronic Environments: A Concept and a Course for the Writing and Rhetoric Major." College Composition and Communication. 61.2 (2009): 330-350.
  • Kim Hensley Owens: "Revelations and Representations: Birth Stories and Motherhood on the Internet."in Textual Mothers, Maternal Texts: Representations of Mothering in Contemporary Women's Literature, Fiction, Poetry and Life Writing. Eds. Andrea O'Reilly and Elizabeth Podeneiks. West Waterloo, ON: Wilfred Laurier Press, 2009.
  • Jeremiah Dyehouse: "The Cyberspace Incrementum: Technology Development for Communicative Abundance." Rhetoric Society Quarterly 39.3 (2009): 281-302.
  • Matthew Ortoleva (Graduate Student): "Narragansett Bay and Biospheric Literacies of the Body." Community Literacy Journal 4.1 (2009). Currently available online.

2008:

  • Michael Pennell: "Beyond Napster: Peer-to-Peer Technology and Network Culture." in Small Tech: THe Culture of Digital Tools. Eds. Byron Hawk, Ollie Oviedo, and David Rieder. Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press, 2008. 107-109
  • Libby Miles, Michael Pennell, Kim Hensley Owens, Jeremiah Dyehouse, Helen O'Grady, Nedra Reynolds, Robert Schwegler, and Linda Shamoon: "Thinking Vertically." College Composition and Communcation. 59.3 (2008): 503-11.
  • Michael Pennell: "'Russia is not in Rhode Island': Wikitravel in the Digital Writing Classroom." Pedagogy 8.1 (2008):75 -92.
  • Michael Pennell: "Invisible Disability, Decentralized Education, and Student Disaffection: The Many Faces of Marginalized Writers." With Charles Avinger and Michael Moriarty. The English Record 58.1 (2008): 75-90.
  • Tina Bacci (Graduate Student): "Invention and Drafting in the Digital Age: New Approaches to Thinking about Writing." The Clearing House 82.8 (2008) 75-81.
  • Michael Pennell: "Learning with Limits: New Faculty and Course Management Software." With Julie Staggers and Meredith W. Zoetewey. Eds. George Pullman and Baotong Gu. Content Management: Bridging the Gap between Theory and Practice. Amityville, NY: Baywood Press, 2008. 57-70.
  • Jeremiah Dyehouse and Matthew Ortoleva. "SWOT Analysis: An Instrument for Writing Center Strategic Planning." Writing Lab Newsletter 32.10 (2008): 1-4.

2007:

  • Michael Pennell: "Community Literacy, Labor Market Intermediaries, and Community Communication Ecologies." Community Literacy Journal. 1.2 (Spring 2007): 41-56.
  • Michael Pennell: "'If Knowledge is Power, You're About to Become Very Powerful': Literacy and Labor Market Intermediaries in Post-Industrial America." College Composition and Communication 58.3 (2007): 345-384.
  • Jeremiah Dyehouse: "Knowledge Consolidation Analysis: Toward a Methodology for Studying the Role of Argument in Technology Development." Written Communication 24.2 (2007): 111-139.
  • Libby Miles: "Rhetorical Work: Social Materiality, Kairos, and Changing the Terms." JAC 27.3/4 (2007): 743-758.
  • Jeremiah Dyehouse: "A Politics for Interactivity: Progressivism and its Limits in Federal Congressional Deliberations of Distance Education Policy." Computers and Composition 24.4 (2007).
  • Michael Pennell: "Fraternities and ITexts: Composing in the Post-Industrial Turn." Computers and Composition. 24.1 March 2007.

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E-Portfolio Presentations

All seniors in the Writing & Rhetoric major complete an electronic portfolio through our capstone course, WRT 495. The Spring 2009 class, consisting of Sam Fuller, Jessica Notardonato, Samantha Notardonato, Rob Petrin, Tatiana M. Uhoch, and Emily Weintraub, marked the second year for graduating our pioneer Writing & Rhetoric majors.


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