WRITE NOW: Rethinking Writing Studies
Overview
Write Now is a hands-on research project designed to help participants produce writing about writing– and about teaching writing– for a global university pedagogy in and for the 21st century.
Join us for a semester-long series of events, starting with a lecture and a workshop on the state of the field of Writing Studies, culminating in an international symposium on writing studies as a global, multilingual, multicultural praxis on May 13-14, 2022.
The opening talk and a workshop are meant to inspire proposals and participation in the end-of-the-semester symposium and lead to publications.
Participants will gather in May for a symposium that will foreground interdisciplinarity and cross-cultural collaborations in teaching writing. Write Now will culminate in a 3-day conference with panels on social justice, translingual pedagogies, play and experimentation in the writing
Project Researchers
Marion Wrenn
Ken Nielsen (In Memorium)
Piia Mustamäki
Announcements
Call for Proposals: Write Now: Teaching First-Year Writing in the Multilingual Classroom
For a volume that will be both a practical and a theoretical handbook for writing teachers, we seek essays that focus on a specific syllabus and/or set of assignments. Our goal is to create a volume that will present the theoretical context for “what works” in a multi-lingual first-year composition classroom; it is our expectation that the volume will thus be of use not only for individual faculty members in their own teaching but also for anyone doing teacher training or who has an interest in how to diversify their syllabi more generally.
Essays will serve as meta-commentary on the practical document and might focus on such topics as linguistic and cultural diversity in the classroom, choice of readings, shaping of assignments, demographic research, linguistics, educational histories, the position of writing studies within the university, diversity and access, and so on.
The completed volume will include contributors from writing programs around the world and will invite readers into the ongoing scholarly and pedagogical discussion about multilingual education.
Our hope is that this volume will not only contribute to writing studies as a field of research but would also be a useful handbook for anyone teaching composition, whether at Queens College or Ashoka University or NYU Shanghai.
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At this stage, please submit your syllabus and a one-page essay proposal to nyuad.writenow@nyu.edu
Deadline for submissions: March 1st, 2023.
Selected contributors will be invited to attend a hybrid discussion and essay development event at NYU Abu Dhabi in May 2023.
Project Researchers
Marion Wrenn
Ken Nielsen (In Memorium)
Piia Mustamäki
Deborah Williams