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Five Major Figures and Fields

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This month, WikiProject Writing is focused on creating five new articles from our articles in need of creation list. These include biographies of academics and areas of study within writing studies. We aim to work together to address inequities on Wikipedia as we create and contribute to these articles.

Our main goals are to . . .

1. Set writing goals: Create achievable goals for contributions to a target article or articles.

2. Coordinate collaboration: Form writing groups of WikiProject Writing participants interested in improving the same article or articles.

3. Combat knowledge inequities: Address content gaps by creating new content with attention to the research and scholarship of marginalized writing studies teacher-scholars.


Take action by...

1. Choosing an article: Head to our article worklist to find an article you'd like to work on.

2. Setting a goal: Edit our 'Setting goals' section with your suggested plan for the month.

3. Create or collaborate on an article: Use our resources section to help create a draft, assess notability, find sources, and request feedback.

Past spotlights

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Writing recommendations

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Find an article you are interested in working on from our articles for creation list below.

Create achievable goals for the month. Here are a few writing recommendations based on weekly time segments:

If you have fifteen minutes each week . . .

  • Add a few citations to a draft article
  • Add a few selected publications or notable awards to a biography of an academic
  • Suggest revisions and point to sources on the talk page

If you have thirty minutes each week . . .

  • Expand a draft article with a new section or a few paragraphs

If you have an hour or more each week . . .

  • Draft an article in need of creation (redlinks)

Article worklist

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Choose an article or articles from our worklist you would like to work on. Once you've selected an article, set your goals and create or collaborate on a draft article.

Biographies of Academics

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Scholar Sources to get us started Establishing notability
Min-Zhan Lu Faculty page
  • Lu, Min-Zhan, and Bruce Horner. “Introduction: Translingual Work.” College English, vol. 78, no. 3, 2016, pp. 207–218.
  • Lu, Min-Zhan, and Bruce Horner. “Translingual Literacy, Language Difference, and Matters of Agency.” College English, vol. 75, no. 6, 2013, pp. 582–607.
  • Lu, Min-Zhan, and Bruce Horner. “Composing in a Global-Local Context: Careers, Mobility, Skills.” College English, vol. 72, no. 2, 2009, pp. 113–133.
  • Lu, Min-Zhan. “Living-English Work.” College English, vol. 68, no. 6, 2006, pp. 605–618.
  • Lu, Min-Zhan. “An Essay on the Work of Composition: Composing English against the Order of Fast Capitalism.” College Composition and Communication, vol. 56, no. 1, 2004, pp. 16–50.
  • Lu, Min-Zhan. “Articles - Redefining the Literate Self: The Politics of Critical Affirmation.” College Composition and Communication, vol. 51, no. 2, 1999, p. 172–194.
  • Lu, Min-Zhan. "Redefining the Legacy of Mina Shaughnessy: A Critique of the Politics of Linguistic Innocence." Journal of Basic Writing, Vol. 10, No. 1, 1991, p. 26-40.
  • Bawarshi, Anis, et al. “Behind the Scenes of Writing: A Conversation with Min-Zhan Lu.” Writing on the Edge, vol. 9, no. 1, 1997, pp. 88–104.
Beverly J. Moss Faculty page
  • Moss, Beverly J. “‘Phenomenal Women,’ Collaborative Literacies, and Community Texts in Alternative ‘Sista’ Spaces.” Community Literacy Journal, vol. 5, no. 1, Fall 2010, pp. 1–24.
  • Moss, Beverly J, et al. eds. Writing Groups Inside and Outside the Classroom. Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 2004.
  • Moss, Beverly J. A Community Text Arises: A Literate Text and a Literacy Tradition in African-American Churches. Hampton Press, 2003.
Draft:Asao B. Inoue Faculty page
  • Inoue, Asao B. (2014). “Theorizing Failure in U.S. Writing Assessments.” Research in the Teaching of English 48.3, 330-352.
  • Inoue, Asao B. (2020). “Grading Writing Is A Racist Practice.” Statement: A Magazine of the Colorado Language Arts Society, 52.1.
  • Inoue, Asao B., and Mya Poe. (2020). “How to Stop Harming Students: An Ecological Guide to Antiracist Writing Assessment,” Infographic. Composition Studies, 48.3, pp. 14-15.
  • Inoue, Asao B. (2020). “Stories about Grading Contracts, or How Do I Like Through The Violence I’ve Done?” The Journal of Writing Assessment, 13.2 (4,883 words).

Areas of study

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Article Sources to get us started
Writing program administration
  • McLeod, Susan H. Writing Program Administration. Parlor Press, 2007.
  • Brown, Stuart C., and Theresa Enos, eds. The Writing Program Administrator’s Resource: A Guide to Reflective Institutional Practice. Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum, 2002.
  • L'Eplattenier, Barbara, and Lisa Mastrangelo. Historical Studies of Writing Program Administration: Individuals, Communities, and the Formation of a Discipline. Parlor Press, 2004.
  • Reiff, Mary Jo, et al. Ecologies of Writing Programs: Program Profiles in Context. Parlor Press, 2015.
  • Malenczyk, Rita. A Rhetoric for Writing Program Administrators. Parlor Press, 2016.
  • Charlton, Colin. GenAdmin: Theorizing WPA Identities in the Twenty-First Century. Parlor Press, 2011.
Cultural rhetorics
  • Cultural Rhetorics Consortium Bibliography
  • Haas, Angela M. “Toward a Digital Cultural Rhetoric.” The Routledge Handbook of Digital Writing and Rhetoric, edited by Jonathan Alexander and Jacqueline Rhodes, 1st ed., Routledge, 2018, pp. 412–22.
  • Powell, M., Bratta, P., Riley-Mukavetz, A. & Levy, D. (Guest Eds.). (2016). Cultural Rhetorics Special Issue. enculturation: a journal of rhetoric, writing, and culture, 21. Available here
  • Powell, M., Levy, D., Riley-Mukavetz, A., Brooks-Gillies, M., Novotny, M., & Fisch-Ferguson, J. (2014). Our Story Begins Here: Constellating Cultural Rhetorics. enculturation: a journal of rhetoric, writing, and culture, 18, n.p.
  • Riley-Mukavetz, A. (2014). Towards a Cultural Rhetorics Methodology: Making Research Matter with Multi-generational Women from the Little Traverse Bay Band. Rhetoric, Professional Communication and Globalization, 5(1), 108-125.
  • Sano-Franchini, J. (2014). Cultural Rhetorics and the Digital Humanities: Toward Cultural Reflexivity in Digital Making. In J. Ridolfo & W. Hart-Davidson (Eds.), Rhetoric and the Digital Humanities (pp. 49-64). Chicago, IL: The University of Chicago Press.

Setting goals

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Sign up here

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Add your username, goals for article creation, and any specific articles you'll be working on below, alongside your name and a goal or goals you aim to achieve by the end of the month. Additionally, if you plan to collaborate on an article with another participant or participants you may opt to list collaborators and/or invite others to join you.

Copy and paste this format and only change what is within the (parentheses). Add this with a new bullet point below the other participants sign ups:
~~~ (This month I plan to...) ~~~~~

Breadyornot (talk) (This month I plan to create and expand upon Min-Zhan Lu and Asao B. Inoue articles. I will put these in the draft space and post them on the WikiProject Writing discussion page for others to contribute. Please feel free to help!) 17:30, 3 September 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Resources

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  1. CCCCWI Advice Manual: Creating article drafts
  2. Tutorial on drafting articles
  3. CCCCWI Advice Manual: Biographies of academics
  4. Wikipedia editing for researchers, scholars, and academics
  5. Citing your own work
  6. Notability criteria for academic biographies
  7. Notability criteria for academic and technical books
  8. CCCCWI Advice Manual: Getting Input From the Community

September workshops & office hours

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The CCCC Wikipedia Initiative hosts monthly workshops & office hours. If you need some help getting started, have specific questions, or would like to find space to work on your article alongside your collaborators, these are great spaces to do so:

CCCCWI Coffeehouse (Now Streaming on Twitch)

Friday 9/3 & 9/17 @ 1:00pm-3:00PM EST

Join here

Drop-in whenever you'd like on Friday, September 3rd & 17th from 1:00pm-3:00pm EST for an informal virtual writing group. Savannah Cragin, the CCCC Wikipedian-in-Residence, will live edit Wikipedia via Twitch on a different topic focus each week. Although we cannot meet physically, we wish to create a online space where scholars can get together and chat about our work. Whether you are working on a project, plan on adding a few sources to an article, or just want to chat with other scholars, this is a great space to do so.


Wikipedia as Public Scholarship

Friday 9/10 @ 1:30pm-3:00pm EST

Register (limited to 10 participants)

This introductory workshop covers editing basics with particular attention to some of the specific concerns experts face on Wikipedia and discussion of how academics can use their expertise to advance knowledge equity online. Topics include navigating privacy issues, concerns around conflict of interest, and strategies for getting started with articles that need a lot of work.


Getting Started with WikiProject Writing

Friday 9/24 @ 3:00pm-4:30pm EST

Register (limited to 10 participants)

This intermediate workshop introduces WikiProject Writing as a collaborative space for coordinating efforts to improve Wikipedia articles related to our areas of expertise. Topics include defining the scope of WikiProject Writing by tagging articles, directing the priorities of WikiProject Writing by assessing articles, and adding to and working from our list of articles in need of work and creation.


CCCCWI Office Hours

Mondays & Tuesdays OR by appointment

Register

If you would like to discuss something Wikipedia-related one-on-one or get help with a Wikipedia article you’re working on, please feel free to sign up for my office hours on Mondays and Tuesdays or email me to suggest another time (savannahcragin@berkeley.edu).