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Composition Studies 54.1 (Spring 2026)
Paperback
General ReferenceWriting Instruction
ISBN13: 9781643176093
Publisher: Parlor Press
Published: Jun 26 2026
Pages: 248
Weight: 0.74
Height: 0.56 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
The oldest independent periodical in the field, COMPOSITION STUDIES, publishes original articles relevant to rhetoric and composition, including those that address teaching college writing; theorizing rhetoric and composing; administering writing programs; and, among other topics, preparing the field's future teacher-scholars. All perspectives and topics of general interest to the profession are welcome. We also publish Course Designs that contextualize, theorize, and reflect on a course's content and pedagogy. Contributions to Composing With are invited by the editor, though queries are welcome.
Editors' Introduction: Changing Textual Landscapes by Zachary Beare and Jacob Babb
AT A GLANCECritical Data Storytelling by Angela Laflen
ARTICLESLiteracies and Reflective Rhetorical Moves in the Literacy Narrative Assignment by Thir B. Budhathoki Writing Entailment: Aligning Assignments, Text Features, and Outcomes by Christiane Donahue and Lynn Foster-Johnson The Feedback That's Hardest to Hear: Contract Grading and Student Evaluations of Teaching by Erika Luckert Making Assessment Useful, or: How We Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Assessing Rhetorical Literacy by Kurt Schick, Danielle DeRise, Caroline Prendergast, Jay Varner, and Michael Hickman Seeking Literacy Justice in the Age of the Machine: Insights from a Six-Year Program Assessment Project by Jennifer Seibel Trainor and John Holland Empirical Writing Assessment and the Identity Crisis in Science by Michael J. Zerbe
COURSE DESIGNSConfounding Conspiracies: Teaching Critical Thinking in First-Year Composition by Daniel Floyd and Jay S. Arns WRTG 3020: Writing with Music by Steve Lamos
WHERE WE ARE: THE PRESENT AND FUTURE OF QUEER COMPOSITIONQueering Composition after AI by Joshua Barsczewski Writing Memphis, Writing Williamson: Literacy Narrative as Recovery Practice by Seth E. Davis Sick and Tired of Being Sick and Tired A Black Trans Compositionist's Demand for Action, But She's Saying It Louder for the Cisters in the Back! by Erin Green The Horrors Persist, But So Do We: Reading Octavia Bulter in First-Year Writing at the Threshold of a Transformed World by Violet Livingston On the Matter of Mattering by Timothy Oleksiak The Queer Compositionist Has Questions: Beginnings, Imaginings, and Futures by Rachel Robinson-Zetzer
BOOK REVIEWSTruth Be Told: White Nostalgia and Antiracist Queer Resistance in Post-Truth America, by Laura Elliot Tetreault Reviewed by Prince Bush Tracing the Impact of First-Year Writing: Identity, Process, and Transfer at a Public University, by Laura Wilder Reviewed by Moinak Choudhury Outcomes of Engaged Education: From Transfer to Transformation, by Linda Flower Reviewed by Anna D'Orazio Parenting While PhDing: Surviving and Improving the Working Conditions of Graduate Student Parents, edited by Jackie Hoermann-Elliott and Jenna Morton-Aiken Reviewed by Taylor Riley Geiser Translingual and Transnational Graduate Education in Rhetoric and Composition, edited by Nancy Bou Ayash and Carrie Byars Kilfoil Reviewed by Carina Jiaxing Shi Evangelical Writing in a Secular Imaginary: The Academic Writing of Christian Undergraduates at a Public University, by Emily Murphy Cope Reviewed by Liz Thomae I Grew Up in the Church How American Evangelical Women Tell Their Stories, by Bethany Ober Mannon Reviewed by Joseph Wilson
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