Publications
2011:
- Tim Amidon: "Authoring Academic Agency: Charting the Tensions between Work-For-Hire University Copyright Policies" in Copy(write): Intellectual Property in the Writing Classroom Ed. Martine Courant Rife, Shaun Slattery, and Danielle Nicole DeVoss. Fort Collins, Colorado: The WAC Clearinghouse and Parlor Press. Available at http://wac.colostate.edu/books/copywrite/
- Kim Hensley Owens: "Reviews and Reactions: A Rhetorical-Cultural Analysis of The Business of Being Born." Rhetoric Review 30.3 (2011) 293-311.
- Kim Hensley Owens: "Rhetorics of E-Health and Information Age Medicine: A Risk-Benefit Analysis." Response essay. JAC 31.1-2 (2011): 225-235. (Solicited by journal editor.)
- Michael Pennell: "The Flattening of Literacy: Community Colleges and Skills Training." Community College Journal of Research and Practice. 35.4 (April 2011): 312-329.
- Kim Hensley Owens: "Mothers' Ways of Making it--or Making do?: Making (Over) Academic Lives in Rhetoric and Composition with Children. Co-authored with Christine Peters Cucciare, Deborah Morris, Lee Nickoson, and Mary Sheridan. Composition Studies 39.1 (2011): 41-61.
- Kim Hensley Owens: "Rhetorics of E-Health and Information Age Medicine: A Risk-Benefit Analysis." Response essay. JAC 31.1-2 (2011): 225-235. (Solicited by journal editor.)
- Kim Hensley Owens: Review of Our Bodies Ourselves and the Work of Writing, by Susan Wells. Rhetoric Society Quarterly 41.2 (2011): 194-197. DOI: 10.1080/02773945.2011.536457 (Solicited by book review editor)
- Joannah Portman Daley: "Deconstructing Formal and Informal Learning Spaces with Social Networking Sites" in Digital Education: Opportunities for Social Collaboration. Ed. Michael Thomas. Palgrave Macmillian, 2011.
2010:
- Joannah Portman-Daley, Jeremiah Dyehouse, and Michael Pennell: "Hybridity in an Independent Writing Program." Academic Exchange Quarterly. Volume 14, Issue 4, Winter 2010. Awarded Editor's Choice
- Cathryn Molloy: "The Malcliche: An Argument for an Unlikely Episteme." College English 73, 2 (November 2010): 138-155.
- Joannah Portman Daley: "Reshaping Slacktivist Rhetoric: Social Networking for Social Change" in Reflections Volume 10, issue 1, Fall 2010.
- Michael Pennell: "The H1N1 Virus and Video Production: New Media Composing in First-Year Composition" in Pedagogy Volume 10, Issue 3, Fall 2010
- Kim Hensley Owens: "'Look Ma, No Hands!': Voice-Recognition Software, Writing, and Ancient Rhetoric." Enculturation 7 (2010). Web.
- Kim Hensley Owens: "Pumping on the Market." Inside Higher Education. 23 August 2010. Web.
- Kim Hensley Owens: "Revelations and Representations: Birth Stories and Motherhood on the Internet." TextualMothers/Maternal Texts: Mothering in Contemporary Women's Literatures. Eds. Elizabeth Podnieks and Andrea O'Reilly. West Waterloo, Ontario: Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2010. 349-364.
2009:
- Kim Hensley Owens: "Confronting Rhetorical Disability: A Critical Analysis of Women's Birth Plans." Written Communication 26.3, 247-242 (2009). DOI: 10.1177/0741088308329217 Awarded the SAGE 2010 Editor's Choice New Scholar Award
- Kim Hensley Owens:"Teaching 'the Six'-and Beyond."Pedagogy 9.3 (2009): 389-397.
- 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: "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.
News
Please visit our announcements page for more details on the following news:
Nedra Reynolds, Michael Pennell, Jeremiah Dyehouse, James Daley, and Kim Hensley Owens win Technology Innovation grants supported through the "Innovative Approaches Using Technology to Enhance Student Experience at URI" initiative.
Writing & Rhetoric major Brittany Pailthorpe speaks at Diversity Event!
Congratulations to Associate Professors Libby Miles and Michael Pennell on being awarded grants from the Harrington School of Communication and Media.
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Contextualizing writing and conveying its real world significance serves as an important goal for the Department of Writing & Rhetoric. Doing so often means moving students writing out of the classroom and increasing its visibility through a public audience. While this can be done by publishing via the web, the Cigar, and other traditional outlets, Professor Heather Johnson focuses on a different kind of publishing: she publishes her students work by projecting it on the side of the Oliver Watson House.Learn More...
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