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2021 · Virtual virtual

April 7-10, 2021 · Virtual Convention · Program chair Holly Hassel

Theme: We Are All Writing Teachers*: Returning to a Common Place

119 of this year's 795 session and paper titles (15.0%) use a word from the theme (common, place, returning, teachers). In other years the same words appear in 4.5% of titles. All themes.

About this year's source. A virtual convention. The program is split across several files, including on-demand sessions.
253sessions
963people listed
20%first listed in this corpus
6.4%at two-year colleges
1.2%at institutions outside the US
15%of listings from ten institutions

Sessions (253)

CodeTitleFormatPeople
A.1A Queer Caucus Roundtable on Dismantling Oppressive Systems Live4
A.2Equity and Social Justice in Basic Writing Live3
A.3Practicing Community and Comadrismo: Latina Scholars in Rhetoric and Composition Live6
A.4Teaching for Justice for Multilingual Writers­ Live6
A.5“Racism Isn’t the Shark in the Ocean; It’s the Water”: Stumbling through Antiracist Language Pedagogies and Practices Prerecorded w/ Live Q&A3
A.6Gathering in Common Spaces: Conversations in Teaching Undergraduate Research Prerecorded w/ Live Q&A3
A.7Practicing Reflection in STEM4
A.9Institutional Ethnography: Uncovering 21st-Century Exigencies in Writing Program Administration and Research Prerecorded w/ Live Q&A5
B.1ALP in the Time of COVID: Perspectives on Accelerated Learning Programs in the Makeshift Online3
B.2Exploring Eco-Cognitive Approaches to Digital Composition: A Report and Interactive Data Analysis4
B.3Preparing Doctoral Students for (Un)Common Jobs off the Tenure Track Live5
B.4The Avengers and the End of Composition? (The Sequel) Live9
B.5#TeachersAreIrreplaceable: Valuing Teaching Demands Valuing Teachers Prerecorded w/ Live Q&A2
B.6Imitation, Cognition, and Writing: Insights from Research in Neuroscience Prerecorded w/ Live Q&A4
B.7Professional Status in the Institution: Working Conditions for WPAs Prerecorded w/ Live Q&A3
B.8Writing and the Science of Well-Being: Making Joy, Hope, and Well-Being More Commonplace in Writing Classes, Programs, and Institutions Prerecorded w/ Live Q&A4
B.9Conference Planning Commonplaces from Milwaukee to Spokane: Grappling with the Ethical Commitments of Place-Based Labor Live9
B.10Exhibitor Session: Reading with a Critical Eye, Listening2
C.1Appealing to the Field to Make “Comparative” a Commonplace Live4
C.3Queer “I” for the Ivory Tower: Teaching Writing through Queer Selves, Publics, and Institutions Live6
C.5A Balancing Act: Navigating the Successes and Failures of Teaching Writing Prerecorded w/ Live Q&A5
C.6Inclusive Approaches to Teaching and Researching STEM Writing Prerecorded w/ Live Q&A5
C.8Writing Teachers Explore the Commonplace as Civic Duty: The Implication and Impact of Military Service1
D.2Information and Intellectual Property Literacy in an Age of Bots Live5
D.3Re-Shaping Professional Identities: The Writing Center Director Alumni Research Project Live3
D.4The Role of Academic Publishing Today: Studies in Writing and Rhetoric Live4
D.5Academic Ableism: Interrogating Common Tropes of Ability on Campus Prerecorded w/ Live Q&A2
D.6Incorporating Student-Designed Evaluation in Your Classroom: A Space for Conversation Prerecorded3
D.7Re-writing the Archive: Recovering Models for BIPOC Prerecorded w/ Live Q&A3
D.8Writing to Change Oneself and the World: Adapting First-Year Writing during COVID-19 Prerecorded w/ Live Q&A4
E.1Career Quest: Navigating a Future in Composition, Rhetoric, and Writing Live9
E.2Inhabiting the Metaphorical Spaces of High School to College Writing Live4
E.3Reframing the Narrative: An Intersectional Approach Live1
E.4Troubling Waters: Examining Racial Epithets, Linguicism, and Racialized Language Use in Academic and Public4
E.6Access and Accessibility in Our Programs and Teaching Practices: Local Rhetorics of Inclusion and Their Tacit3
E.7Re/Turning to Less Commonplaces: Questioning Assumptions and Ethical Design for Multimodality Prerecorded w/ Live Q&A5
E.8Learning or Being Schooled: What Counts as Faculty Development? Prerecorded w/ Live Q&A5
E.9Becoming Strategic, Self-Regulated Writers: A Research-Based Approach for Supporting Basic3
E.10Exhibitor Session: How Achieve Facilitates Equity and Engagement Prerecorded w/ Live Q&A2
F.1Colonial Logics and Decolonial Commonplaces: Thinking through Our Practices and Relational2
F.2Intentional WAC: Report Two Years into the Sustainable WAC Consortium Live9
F.4Understanding and Responding to Standardized English in Composition Live3
F.5Community College Transfer in the Time of COVID: Lessons on Teaching for Access in Our Summer Bridge7
F.6Locating Commonplaces with Language Diversity Prerecorded w/ Live Q&A3
F.7Recovering and Reclaiming Asian/Asian American “Traits” in Rhetoric and Writing Prerecorded6
F.8Engaging Students in Online Writing Courses5
G.1Complicating Retention Commonplaces: A Conversation on First-Year Composition’s Roles in Student Persistence4
G.2Interrogating the Linguistic and Racial Commonplaces of Writing Pedagogy Live4
G.3Remembering the Commonplace Contributions of Charles R. Cooper (1934–2017): Points of Departure5
G.6MA Programs in Writing Studies: Looking Back to Look to the Future Prerecorded w/ Live Q&A4
G.7Research-Informed Writer-Centered Pedagogical Practices for Multilingual Students Prerecorded2
G.8Multimodal Composing Practices Prerecorded6
H.1Composing across Contexts: Multimodality and Transfer Live5
H.2Interrogating Whiteness in Contested and Common Writing Spaces Live4
H.3Retaining Online Students through Connection and Rapport: A Longitudinal Study of a Sustainable4
H.4What Is STEM Writing? Challenging How We Teach Writing in STEM Live5
H.5What Changes in Student Writing? Live6
H.6Mentoring, Professionalization, and Labor in Graduate School Prerecorded w/ Live Q&A4
H.7Sharing and Analyzing Longitudinal Datasets on Student Writing Development and Implications for Teaching6
H.8Explorations of Implicit and Explicit Racism in Curricular Language, Requirements, and Implementation6
H.9Contract Grading and Labor-Based Assessment3
I.1Composition as Social Justice: Action Planning for Inclusive Writing Pedagogies across Contexts Live3
I.3Rethinking Mentoring as an Embodied Relational Practice Live3
I.5Creating Commonplaces: Honoring Diverse Class Backgrounds with/and Writing Pedagogy4
I.9Impacts of Online Writing Instruction on Students Live3
I.10Exhibitor Session: Rhetorics & Resources: New FYW Solutions for Building Confident Writers Prerecorded4
J.2Livable Futures for Rhetorics Elsewhere and Otherwise: Indigenous, Latinx, Black, Asian, and Asian American8
J.3Sheltering in Placement: Developing and Launching Placement Processes while in Crisis Live6
J.5Designing Unity: Overcoming Material Conditions That Divide Writing Program Faculty Prerecorded3
J.6Navigating First-Year Writing Curriculum Change from Multiple Perspectives Prerecorded w/ Live Q&A4
J.7Teaching Teachers of Writing: Interrogating the Practices and Places That Serve—or Fail to Serve—Us Well2
J.10Cultivating Common Ground: Relationship Building across Networks of Cultural Difference Prerecorded2
J.11Common Practices for Teaching and Researching in the Rhetoric of Health and Medicine Prerecorded7
J.12Commonplace Books Updated: Pedagogies for Cultivating an Inclusive Student Commons4
K.1Considering Positionality as a Common Place in Personal, Academic, Transnational, and Community5
K.2More Than Replication: Reimagining Online Writing Instruction Using Affordance-Forward Design Live3
K.3Stories That Stand Between: Examining Land as Common/Relation-Places Live4
K.5Developing a Digital Commonplace for Research Methods in a COVID Climate Prerecorded w/ Live Q&A4
K.6New Directions in Writing about Writing Pedagogies Prerecorded w/ Live Q&A4
K.7The Struggles of Bringing Inoue’s Labor-Based Grading Contracts to Community Colleges Prerecorded4
K.8Storying Our Commonplaces: Using Story to Practice Accountability, Solidarity, Justice, and Care Live5
L.1Commonplaces in Creative Writing and Composition: Reimagining Sites of Craft, Pedagogy, Identity, and Community9
L.2Multimodal Composition as Commonplace Pedagogy Live4
L.3Practicing the Rhetoric of Social Justice: Tales from the Ground in Spokane Live5
L.5Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in Directed Self-Placement Prerecorded w/ Live Q&A4
L.6Octalog IV: The Politics of Rhetorical Studies in 2021 Prerecorded w/ Live Q&A10
L.7Theoretical and Pedagogical (In)Accessibility Prerecorded w/ Live Q&A3
L.10Confronting the Dissertation Genre: Drawing Out Tensions, Seeking Innovations Live3
L.13Disability Rhetorics in Professional and Technical Writing Live3
M.2New Possibilities in Online Writing Instruction: Considering Student Backgrounds to Achieve Inclusivity2
M.3Student Writer as Solicitor of Feedback: Shifting the Feedback Paradigm in Online and Face-to-Face3
M.6Placement Ideologies and Enacted Reform: Interrogating Access to the Commonplace of the FYC Classroom3
M.7Uncommon Places: The Recording Studio as Compositional Space Prerecorded w/ Live Q&A3
M.8Recommending Accountability: An Update from the Committee for Change Live10
N.1Disciplinarity and Transfer Ten Years Later: A Multi-Institutional Investigation into Student Perceptions of Learning to Write Live4
N.2New Sites and Practices for Course, Instructor, and Program Assessments Live4
N.3Supplemental Writing Workshop with Peer Mentors: Finding a Commonplace of Support for Developmental3
N.5Empathy as Commonplace in the Online Composition Classroom Prerecorded w/ Live Q&A3
N.7and Place Prerecorded w/ Live Q&A2
O.1English Majors’ Career Preparation and Outcomes Live5
O.2Perspective and Context: Three Approaches to First-Year Writing Live3
O.3Sustainability and Adaptability: Strategizing for Disruption in Community-Engaged Teaching Live7
O.4(Digital) Storytelling in/as Pedagogy: Narrative through Artistic Expression, in Technical Writing, and as Feminist3
O.5Finding Common Ground with Students: Expertise as Performance and Process Prerecorded w/ Live Q&A2
O.6Practicing Faith and “Religious Friction”: Engaging Student Beliefs in the Composition Classroom2
O.7A Call for Teachers: Networking Information Literacy in University Libraries and Writing Programs On-Demand3
O.9A Program without a Program: Sustaining a Cohesive Two-Year Writing Program without a WPA On-Demand3
O.10A Study Interrupted: Tracking the Constantly Shifting NTT3
O.11Access to Academic Literacies On-Demand Session1
O.14Articulating Boundaries: Contesting the Commonplace4
O.16Beyond Celebrity Authors and Pedagogies of Genius: Transforming Teacher-Writer Identities in Creative Writing4
O.17Beyond Discipline and Punish in FYW: Creating a New2
O.18Both Teacher and Student: Support for Graduate2
O.19Case Studies of Familiar and Emergent Genres1
O.20Poster Session On-Demand Session3
O.23Commonplaces in Social Justice Pedagogies: Challenging Liberal Literacies in a Neoliberal World2
O.24Compassionate Writing Program Administration and the Untenured WPA On-Demand Session10
O.26Confronting Patriarchy in Higher Education: The Writing5
O.27Contract Grading in the Ecosystem: Student, Faculty, and WPA Experiences of Contract Variations across a Program On-Demand Session6
O.28Critical Reading and Literature On-Demand Session3
O.30CTRL+A /Select All: Evaluating Practices for Improving4
O.32Cultivating Resilience and Restorative Practices during4
O.33Cultural Paradigms in Teaching Composition by Non-Native English-Speaking Writing Instructors3
O.34Damned If We Do? Past Composition Practices as Sites of Moral Complexity and Ethical Negotiation5
O.36Developing Genre Knowledge: Adaptable, Evidence-Based Small Teaching Practices for FYW On-Demand3
O.37Digital Literacy, Social Media, and Public Response in Times of Controversy On-Demand Session2
O.38Dignity Matters: Public Writing, Graduate Student6
O.39Embodying Agency: Feminism, Rhetoric, and Resistance3
O.41Empowerment as a Commonplace for Literacy4
O.42Not What They Learn but How They Learn: Measuring4
O.44Epideictic Listening: Toward a Theory and Praxis for Listening, Writing, and Revising Commonplaces2
O.45Evidence-Based Practices to Support Graduate Writing: Graduate Writing Groups and Graduate Editing Services4
O.47Expanding the Commonplaces of Historical Studies4
O.48Anatomies of Writing Programs: Sustaining Their4
O.49Accessibility in Digital Literacy Practices On-Demand3
O.50Feminist Compositionists Facilitating Cross-Disciplinary3
O.51Feminist Interrogations of Participation as a Commonplace in Community-Based Teaching and Learning On-Demand Session3
O.52Finding Common Places through Sound and Silence in First-Year Writing On-Demand Session4
O.53For the Common Good: Students Protest the Right to Access Literacy and Freedom On-Demand Session2
O.54Four Takes on Grading Contracts: Evolving Assessment4
O.55Generating a Common Ethic: Controversial Topics in the Writing Classroom On-Demand Session3
O.56Teaching and Learning Innovations in PTC On-Demand4
O.57Designing Decolonialized and Equitable Commonplaces3
O.58Identities in Flux: STEM Genres in the First-Year Writing4
O.60Three Teachers Teaching: Pedagogy in the ALP2
O.61Mentorship in Less-Common-Places On-Demand5
O.62Institutional Support for Multilingual Writers: Implications3
O.63Interactive Autoethnographies: Challenging Exclusion4
O.64It Starts with a (Digital) Story: Accessing Academic3
O.65Language Diversity as Commonplace On-Demand2
O.66Challenging the Commonplace of Standard Academic3
O.67Mapping Pathways of Undergraduate Research4
O.68Grading Revisited: Assessment Methods and the Future2
O.69Methods for Effective Assessment in Writing Programs2
O.71Mise en Academe: Learning to Learn to Write by Reflecting On-Demand Session3
O.73Flying Blindly through Thirdspace: Adaptations to Studio3
O.74Curating Writing Teacher Development across Scenes of Writing Instruction On-Demand Session4
O.75Neoliberalism, Retention Programs, and “Social Justice”: Investigating Commonplace Notions of Higher Education2
O.76New Solutions for Longstanding Problems for WPAs: Class Size, Placement, and Sites On-Demand Session2
O.77OER and (Un)Common Teaching Practices: Agile, Dynamic, and Diverse Teaching Approaches in Technical4
O.78Open Access at Work from Home: How One FYW3
O.80Pedagogical Possibilities: Engaging Modes of Modality4
O.81Personhood as Topos in Postsecondary Writing3
O.82Practicing in Place: Placement, Pedagogy, and Participatory Assessment On-Demand Session4
O.84Users across Disciplines: Commonplaces for Innovation4
O.85Prison Archives and Public Memory: Disrupting Cycles of Incarceration On-Demand Session6
O.86Publishing (as) Commonplaces: Editing, Revising, Circulating On-Demand Session6
O.87Qualitative Studies of Graduate Teaching Assistant3
O.88Queer Literacies: Discourses, Discontents, and Pedagogical Interventions On-Demand Session3
O.90Race and Rhetoric(s), Rhetoric(s) of Race: Applying6
O.91Re-Considering the Violence of Literacy in the Writing2
O.92Recirculating Methods: Story Mapping, Zines, and CYO4
O.93Reconceptualizing Racial Inclusion in Pedagogical3
O.94Reconsidering Common Spaces: Making the Case for Hybrid Writing Instruction On-Demand Session3
O.96Reexamining the Relationship between Research5
O.97Writing across the Curriculum, Professional5
O.98Reflection, Fragmentation, and Improvisation: Meaning4
O.99Reimagining Graduate Instructor Mentoring with Big3
O.100Rethinking a “Common Place”: Making Space for BIPOC5
O.101Rethinking Language Ideologies in Literacy Teaching, Administration, and Activism On-Demand Session3
O.102Rethinking Program Assessment: Strategies for Inclusion4
O.103Rethinking the Graduate Online Writing “Course” in Uncommon Spaces and Times On-Demand Session2
O.104Rhetorical Assemblage as Process and Praxis: A Transdisciplinary Approach to Writing Assessment within2
O.105Self-Directed Placement: Giving Students Access (to a Burning House) On-Demand Session3
O.106Hot Takes: Emotion and Trauma in Writing Centers3
O.109Teachers Teaching Teachers: An Ecology of Teacher1
O.110Repurposing Failure: Interrogating the Commonplace3
O.111Teaching as Embodied Practice: New Possibilities for the Personal in the Composition Classroom On-Demand4
O.112Teaching Digital Literacy in the Writing Classroom4
O.113Teaching Humans Online: Holistic Reflections on Limits2
O.114Teaching Multilingual Students Remotely: Exploring and Learning from Multimodal and Online Pedagogies5
O.115Research Methods as Disruption On-Demand Session4
O.116The Big Picture: Aging Professionals and Academic Life6
O.117The Future of Writing Centers On-Demand Session5
O.118The Practice of Digital Composition: Engaging Student3
O.119The Promise of Wealth: Recognizing the Symbolic4
O.121They Said It: An Institutional Ethnography of Writing3
O.123Through the Admin/Staff Looking-Glass: An Alternative4
O.124Transformative Initiatives for Sustainable WAC4
O.125Transitions and Translations in a First-Year Writing3
O.126Transnational Composition, Identities, and Pedagogies4
O.127Turn the Mic Up! Honoring Participants’ Voices as Graduate Student and Early Career Researchers5
O.128Un-commonplace(ment): Directed Self-Placement at the Periphery, with the Periphery On-Demand Session1
O.129Uncommon Ground: A/typical Practices and Values in Composing New A/topias On-Demand Session6
O.130Uncommon Praxis: Doing Disability in Composition’s3
O.131Uncommon: Teaching Awareness (Self, Critical, Social, and Rhetorical) through Writing and Communication in Business Colleges On-Demand Session3
O.132Undergraduate Researcher Poster Session On-Demand1
O.133Utilizing Theme-Based Language Instruction, Technology, and Home Languages and Literacies to Empower3
O.134When the Common Place of First-Year Composition in General Education Becomes Less Common and More5
O.135Witness, Testimony, Story, Counterstory: Antiracist5
O.136Working Conditions of Instructors at Open-Access6
O.137WPA Work at Liberal Arts Colleges: Implications for Writing Programs, Writing Centers, and WID Programs4
O.138Writing Centers Commonplaces: Data-Supported and Context-Specific Teaching, Tutoring, Professional5
O.139Writing Commons: An Encyclopedia for Writers, a Commonplace for Writing Studies On-Demand Session6
O.140Writing from a Common Place: Rhetorical Analysis and Popular Culture in First-Year Composition On-Demand4
O.141Writing in Un-Common Places On-Demand Session4
O.142Writing Lives of Alumni: Emerging Findings from the Wayfinding Project On-Demand Session4
O.143Writing Transfer and Work Integrated Learning in Global5
O.144Writing Works: The Common Place between Professional3
O.145Collaborative Writing and Teaching for Social Equity3
O.146Rethinking “the Audience” and “the Author” in Creative2
O.147Activist and Antiracist Pedagogies for First-Year Writing2
O.148Readers and Citizens: First-Year Writing and the Cultivation of Audience On-Demand Session3
O.149Pedagogically Inclusive Constructs of Normativity and Success across FYC Environments On-Demand Session4
O.150Approaches to Teaching Research and Writing about Sources On-Demand Session4
O.152Ideological Foundations of Online Surveillance3
O.153Reverberations: Teaching Soundwriting as Teaching5
O.154On the “Pivot”: Emergency Remote Teaching in an International Student Bridge Program On-Demand3
O.155Speaking Up, Speaking Out: Lived Experiences of Non-Tenure-Track Faculty in Writing Studies On-Demand12
O.156Graduate Student-Scholars’ Experiences Navigating3
O.157Communication across Contexts: Situating SRTOL within5
O.158Social Justice and Community Ethics in Professional and Technical Writing On-Demand Session3
O.159The OER and Tech Writing: Strengthening Student and Educator Communities On-Demand Session5
O.160Reading for Transfer to Disciplinary Work On-Demand3
O.161Improving Outcomes: Promoting Fairness across Diverse6
O.162Perceived Commonplaces of Writing beyond the University: Challenges and Findings from Multi-Institutional Research On-Demand Session3
O.163Teaching While Asian American in the Age of Trump5
O.164Negotiating FYW and Conflict: #BlackLivesMatter, Pandemic, and Mindful Pedagogical Practices3
O.165Visualization and Analytics: Composition through a Networked Lens On-Demand Session2
O.166A Case for Case Studies: Developing Teaching Practice in the First-Year Writing Classroom On-Demand Session5
O.168Ecocomposition in the Anthropocene: Deepening15
O.169The 2020 Documentarians Project: Recollecting Common3
O.170Practicing Social Justice Writing in the Jewish Tradition: “For Once We Were Strangers . . .” On-Demand Session3
O.171Our Narratives, Our Lived Memories: Immersive3
W.2A Black Lives Matter/Critical Race Theory–Based, Culturally Responsive, Antiracist, and Race Radical8
W.3Beyond the Classroom: Challenging the Commonplaces of Experiential Learning7
W.4Coalition as Commonplace16
W.5From Teaching Composition to Teaching Workplace Writing: Making an Effective Transition4
W.7Inclusive Grammars, Alternative Perspectives, Nuanced Meanings5
W.8Reconsidering Basic Writing in the Changing Landscape13
W.9Taking Action for Antiracist Workplaces: Developing Bystander Training for Writing Teachers and WPAs11
W.10Teaching Critical Reading in First-Year Composition2
W.11Writing Creative Nonfiction: Finding the Extraordinary in the Ordinary12