Pub Date : 2025-03-01Epub Date: 2024-11-29DOI: 10.1016/j.compcom.2024.102904
Daniel Libertz, Kamal Belmihoub, Constantin Schreiber, Lisa Blankenship
As a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, nearly all students have had some kind of experience with modalities beyond traditional, on-site teaching. We wanted to study how first-year writing students experienced different modalities (i.e., on-site, hybrid, and online) to learn more about how best to support students and faculty in the future. This paper presents results of a mixed-methods study investigating differences in first-year writing student levels of confusion, satisfaction with social interaction, and preferences for modality in learning about writing. We found significant differences (with mostly small effects and some medium and large effects) in lower levels of confusion and higher satisfaction with social interaction in on-site classes relative to hybrid and online classes. We also found that students preferred a modality for a writing class for different and sophisticated reasons. On the basis of these results, we recommend more support for teaching in all modalities, more investigation of strengths/weaknesses of synchronous and asynchronous approaches, and more support offered to students before and during their writing classes for how best to learn how to learn in a given modality.
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Pub Date : 2025-03-01Epub Date: 2024-12-03DOI: 10.1016/j.compcom.2024.102908
Megan McIntyre
Each year, in TA orientation, in the practicum course, and in professional development sessions, I ask TAs and instructors to consider what is, for me, the key question at the heart of our work as writing teachers: what do we owe our students? And a related and equally important question: what do we owe ourselves? In 2024, just over two years into the public existence of OpenAI's ChatGPT, the contexts for these questions are perhaps more complicated than ever, but I think the answers are mostly the same: we owe our students equitable classrooms, space to try and to fail, compassion and care, and authentic engagement. We owe them the rights our discipline affirmed almost fifty years ago when CCCC adopted Students’ Right to Their Own Language as the official position of the largest organization of writing teachers in the world. This article reviews an approach to the current Generative AI moment that is rooted in these commitments and reflects an approach I call “informed refusal,” which allows us to acknowledge the existence of generative AI without requiring students to use generative AI products. We can continue to teach critical literacies and attend to the things that make first-year writing classrooms unique, especially our attention to individualized feedback on students’ writing and our attention to helping students build self-efficacy via sustainable writing processes and reflective habits of mind. At the same time, I argue against the adoption of detectors and other writing surveillance technologies because of the ways that such tools reinforce overly simplistic notions of plagiarism (Moore-Howard) and can harm our relationships with students.
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Pub Date : 2025-03-01Epub Date: 2025-02-10DOI: 10.1016/j.compcom.2025.102920
Roberto Rojas-Alfaro, Jeshua Enriquez
While online community college students’ engagement with coursework, class retention, and motivation to participate are critical for academic success, these needs often go unmet for diverse and underrepresented populations, especially in the absence of culturally responsive and inclusive teaching practices. This study contributes to the limited research on culturally responsive pedagogy in online community college settings by exploring the implementation and impact of high-context communication practices in that setting, with a focus on improving engagement and academic outcomes for diverse student populations. Drawing on frameworks of culturally responsive teaching and high-context communication, the research examines the effectiveness of “check-in assignments” as a low-stakes, personalized intervention designed to foster stronger faculty-student relationships, enhance student belonging, and bridge cultural communication gaps in online learning environments. Using a mixed-methods approach, the study analyzes quantitative data on assignment engagement and qualitative themes from student responses. Findings indicate that high-context communication practices promote deeper engagement, especially among Hispanic and non-Hispanic females, while highlighting disparities in engagement among male students. Key themes—course perceptions, personal challenges, and faculty-student relationships—underscore the role of culturally informed interventions in addressing the needs of underrepresented groups and enhancing engagement and academic success. Future research could expand on these findings by exploring longitudinal outcomes and adaptive strategies for diverse learning environments.
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Pub Date : 2025-03-01Epub Date: 2025-02-05DOI: 10.1016/j.compcom.2025.102918
Xiao Tan , Wei Xu , Chaoran Wang
Despite the extensive research on voice in traditional text-based writing, there is a notable lack of empirical studies examining this concept within multimodal writing contexts. The shift towards multimodality in writing research, coupled with the rise of Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI) in content creation, calls for a deeper understanding of how voice is perceived by readers beyond traditional writing contexts. This mixed-method study addresses this gap by exploring voice construction in GenAI-assisted photo essays from a dialogic perspective. In this study, we invited writing teachers to rank five student-produced photo essays according to their perceived voice strengths and analyzed the rankings using Kendall's Coefficient Concordance. The statistical analysis shows a weak agreement (W = 0.27) among raters, suggesting that voice is perceived quite diversely. The follow-up interviews with six focal raters reveal that they could agree on the importance of having unique ideas and angles in writing, keeping writing coherent and focused, using appropriate quotations, and incorporating images to enhance storytelling. However, opinions diverge regarding using primary and secondary texts, adopting academic discourse features, and including AI-generated images. The study adds to scholarly conversation of voice in composition studies and suggests that divergence in perceiving voice could be leveraged to fuel the discussion about voice in writing pedagogy.
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Pub Date : 2025-03-01Epub Date: 2025-01-01DOI: 10.1016/j.compcom.2024.102910
Tracey Hayes
The Inauguration of Joe Biden led to the creation of the Bernie Sanders and his Mittens meme, which had a mask-wearing Sanders huddled on a folding chair (socially distanced) wearing his hand-knitted mittens watching the inauguration. Individuals and organizations crafted their own versions with Sanders (and his mittens) appearing everywhere from The Muppet Show to Da Vinci's painting of the Last Supper. These memes have a connection to the pandemic focusing on aspects related to the pandemic such as social distancing, mask wearing, and isolation. This article serves two purposes, the first uses humor theories and their functions combined with the rhetoric of intertextuality to analyze how these memes functioned and thus provided commentary about life during a pandemic. These memes provided stress relief using humor, but also united people, created community, and established an archive of the time during the pandemic. The second purpose applies the classical rhetorical canon to memes thus exploring how memes can be relevant tools for teaching digital rhetoric.
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Pub Date : 2025-03-01Epub Date: 2025-02-08DOI: 10.1016/j.compcom.2025.102919
Jason Tham
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Pub Date : 2025-03-01Epub Date: 2024-11-24DOI: 10.1016/j.compcom.2024.102894
Emma Kostopolus
This article discusses the nuanced challenges of using Generative Artificial Intelligence in multimodal compositions while maintaining an ethical adherence to ideas of academic honesty and intellectual property. Through examining hypothetical scenarios, we can see that multimodality complicates the concept of “fair use” in academic contexts, since image or audio generation via AI functions differently than text generated by a Large Language Model. In thinking through the case studies, the article presents an argument for how educators can still use Generative AI in their multimodal composition assignments, through teaching students to us it as a process supplement and to always be critically aware of their citational responsibilities. This understanding of Generative AI use is placed in conversation with our understanding of intellectual property law as relates to both the classroom and broader digital composing environments, to better prepare students to create texts in their future careers.
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Pub Date : 2025-03-01Epub Date: 2025-02-03DOI: 10.1016/j.compcom.2025.102917
Ann N. Amicucci, McKenna Argo
Instructional videos offer learning value to students in online college writing courses, but faculty lack training in composing effective videos, and research on video education has not addressed videos within text-heavy disciplines such as writing studies. This qualitative study examines how 5 writing faculty move from composing text-heavy videos to composing videos that use visuals in place of text, in keeping with practices demonstrated as effective in video education research. Study participants completed training grounded in Universal Design for Learning and Cognitive Theory of Multimedia Learning. Study results demonstrated that this training enabled faculty to produce videos better suited to supporting student learning while developing understandings of how students learn through video.
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Pub Date : 2025-03-01Epub Date: 2025-01-02DOI: 10.1016/j.compcom.2024.102912
Jason Tham
{"title":"Celebrating Dr. Kristine Blair's Legacy at Computers and Composition","authors":"Jason Tham","doi":"10.1016/j.compcom.2024.102912","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.compcom.2024.102912","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":35773,"journal":{"name":"Computers and Composition","volume":"75 ","pages":"Article 102912"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143609808","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2025-03-01Epub Date: 2024-11-27DOI: 10.1016/j.compcom.2024.102895
Chin-Hsi Lin , Keyi Zhou , Lanqing Li , Lanfang Sun
This study examines the integration of generative AI tools into digital multimodal composition (DMC) within a multicultural context, examining their impact on students’ motivation, writing processes, and outcomes. Eleven culturally diverse students from two high schools in Hong Kong participated in the study. The study developed and employed a novel pedagogical framework, IDEA (Interpret, Design, Evaluate, and Articulate), to seamlessly incorporate generative AI into DMC practices. Data-collection methods included analysis of generative AI tool-usage history, classroom video observations, surveys, and interviews. The findings reveal that students leveraged generative AI’s capabilities across five key areas: content generation, feedback and revision, multilingual support, critical thinking, and visual representation. The integration of AI tools followed distinct stages in the composition process, resulting in enhancements to the vocabulary, grammar, and structural elements of students’ work. This research contributes to the growing body of knowledge on the intersection of generative AI, education, and multimodal literacy, with a particular emphasis on human-AI collaboration in multicultural settings. It also offers valuable insights for educators seeking to enhance students’ DMC skills through the thoughtful integration of generative AI tools, potentially increasing engagement, motivation, and creative expression among learners from diverse cultural backgrounds.
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