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Digital Composition WikiProject Writing logo in gold This month, we are working to imrpove coverage of content at the intersection of composition pedagogy (or the teaching of writing) and digital technologies. We are particularly interested in representation of how writing teachers at all levels engage technology for effective teaching methods. As is always the case with WikiProject Writing, we will be especially attentive to marginalized identities and scholarship in our editing efforts. We aim to work together to address knowledge 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. Collaborate on an article: Use our resources section to help create a draft, assess notability, find sources, and request feedback.

Past spotlights

• January 2022: Scholars: Latin America
• December 2021: Global Scholars - Europe
• November 2021: Asian/Asian American Scholars/Scholarship
• October 2021: Defining Disability
• September 2021: Five Major Fields and Figures
• May 2021 - August 2021: WikiProject Writing Summer-long Edit-a-thon
• April 2021: Spotlight on Rhetorics of Climate Change & Environmental Activism
• March 2021: Centering BIPOC Women in Writing Studies

Writing recommendations

Find an article you are interested in working on from our article worklist 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 an article
• Update or add a few setences to a biography of an academic
• Add notable scholarship and resources to the 'See also' section of an article
• Suggest revisions and point to sources on the talk page

If you have thirty minutes each week . . .

• Expand an 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 and link it to a pre-exisitng high traffic article (redlinks)
• Restructure a pre-exisiting article (make sure to suggest your revisions on the talk page first!)
• Translate an article using the Content Translation tool

Translation instructions (optional)

A few of the scholars listed under the article worklist section have pre-existing Wikipedia articles on Spanish, Portuguese, and French, and Basque Wikipedia. If you are interested in translating these articles to live on English Wikipedia, we have listed a few instructions on how to do so using the Content Translation tool*. This tool allows users to easily translate articles by creating a user-friendly side-by-side display and allows you to easily publish or save your article as a draft when you finish. Here's how to access the tool:

1. Log into Wikipedia
2. Click on ‘Beta’ at the top right
3. Scroll down and click on ‘Content Translation’
4. Click on ‘Save changes’ on the bottom of the page to save the tool
5. To start translating an article click on ‘Contributions’ and select ‘Translations’ from the drop down menu

For more information on the Content Translation tool, check out the user manual.

*This tool allows new users to publish translations as a draft on English Wikipedia. If you are an extended confirmed users (accounts at least 30 days old with 500 or more edits), you can automatically publish translations to the English Wikipedia mainspace. We encourage both newcomers and experienced Wikipedians to try it out!

Article worklist

Alongside each biography of an academic we've suggested one field-specific article and one general interest, vital article to incorporate their scholarship into. Vital articles are lists of subjects for which the English Wikipedia should have corresponding featured-class articles. They serve as centralized watchlists to track the quality status of Wikipedia's most important articles and to give editors guidance on which articles to prioritize for improvement.

Article/Scholar	Field-specific articles	Vital articles	Scholarship
Digital rhetoric		Digital rhetoric	Google Scholar Zappen J. (2009). Digital Rhetoric: Toward an Integrated Theory. pp.319-325 https://doi.org/10.1207/s15427625tcq1403_10. Douglas E. (2015). Digital Rhetoric: Theory, Method, Practice. University of Michigan Press. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3998/dh.13030181.0001.001. Porter J.E. (2009). Recovering Delivery for Digital Rhetoric. Computers and Composition. 26 (4), pp. 207-224. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.compcom.2009.09.004.
Digital literacy		Literacy	Google Scholar Dobson, T.M. & Willinsky, J. (2009). Digital Literacy. In The Oxford Handbook of Language and Society. pp.286-312 Martin, A. (2008). Digital Literacy and the ‘‘Digital Society’’. In Digital Literacies: Concepts, Policies and Practices, pp.151-176. Price-Dennis, D., Holmes, K.A., Smith, E. (2015). Exploring Digital Literacy Practices in an Inclusive Classroom. The Reading Teacher. https://doi.org/10.1002/trtr.1398. Kurniawati, N., Maolida, E., and Anjaniputra, A.G. (2018). The Praxis of Digital Literacy in the EFL Classroom: Digital-Immigrant vs Digital-Native Teacher. Indonesian Journal of Applied Linguistics 8(1). https://doi.org/10.17509/ijal.v8i1.11459.
Multimodality	Semiotics		Google Scholar Adami, E. (2016). Introducing Multimodality. In The Oxford Handbook of Language and Society. pp.451-472 Jewitt C., Bezemer J., O’Halloran K. (2016). Introducing Multimodality. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315638027 Kress G. (2000). Multimodality: Challenges to thinking about language. TESOL Quarterly Vol. 34, No. 2, pp. 337-340. https://doi.org/10.2307/3587959 Hull G.A., Nelson M.E. (2005). Locating the Semiotic Power of Multimodality. https://doi.org/10.1177%2F0741088304274170. Jewitt C. (2006). Multimodality, “Reading”, and “Writing” for the 21st Century. https://doi.org/10.1080/01596300500200011. Jewitt C. (2008). Multimodality and Literacy in School Classrooms. https://doi.org/10.3102%2F0091732X07310586.
Cynthia Selfe Faculty Page		Computers and writing	Google Scholar Hawisher, G., & Selfe C. (1991). The Rhetoric of Technology and the Electronic Writing Class. College Composition and Communication 42(1), pp. 55-65. https://doi.org/10.2307/357539. Selfe C. (2007). Multi-Modal Composition: Resources for Teachers. Hampton Press. Selfe C. (1999). Technology and literacy in the 21st century: The importance of paying attention. Southern Illinois University Press. Selfe C. (2009). The Movement of Air, the Breath of Meaning: Aurality and Multimodal Composing. College Composition and Communication 60(4), pp. 616-663. http://www.jstor.org/stable/40593423.
Digital storytelling	Digital storytelling	Literacy	Google Scholar Robin, B. (2006). The Educational Uses of Digital Storytelling. In C. Crawford, R. Carlsen, K. McFerrin, J. Price, R. Weber & D. Willis (Eds.), Proceedings of SITE 2006--Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference (pp. 709-716). Orlando, Florida, USA: Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education (AACE). Retrieved January 23, 2022 from https://www.learntechlib.org/primary/p/22129/. Lambert, J.& Hessler, B. (2018). Digital storytelling: Capturing lives, creating community. Robin, B. (2009). Digital Storytelling: A Powerful Technology Tool for the 21st Century Classroom, Theory Into Practice 47 (3), pp.220-228. https://doi.org/10.1080/00405840802153916. McLellan, H. (2007). Digital storytelling in higher education. Journal of Computing in Higher Education, 19,  pp. 65–79. https://doi.org/10.1007/BF03033420. Robin, B. & McNeil, S. (2019). Digital Storytelling. Wiley Online Library. https://doi.org/10.1002/9781118978238.ieml0056.
Cheryl Ball Faculty Page	Multimodality		Google Scholar Ball, C. (2004). Show, not tell: The value of new media scholarship. Computers and Composition, 21(4), pp. 403-425. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.compcom.2004.08.001. Eyman, D. & Ball, C. (2014). Composing for Digital Publication: Rhetoric, Design, Code. Composition Studies, 42(1), 114–117. https://www.jstor.org/stable/compstud.42.1.0114. Ball, C. (2011). Assessing Scholarly Multimedia: A Rhetorical Genre Studies Approach. Technical Communication Quarterly 21(1), pp.61-77. https://doi.org/10.1080/10572252.2012.626390. Ball, C., Sheppard, J., & Arola, K. (2018). Writer / Designer: A Guide to Making Multimodal Projects.

Setting goals

Sign up here

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...) ~~~~~

Resources

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

February events & office hours

The CCCC Wikipedia Initiative hosts monthly events & 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 (Streaming on Twitch)

Friday 2/11 and 2/25 @ 1:00pm-3:00PM EST

Join here

Drop-in whenever you'd like on Friday, February 11th and 25th from 1:00pm-3:00pm EST for an informal virtual writing group. A CCCC Graduate Fellow and CCCC Wikipedia Initiative Committee Member will create stub Wikipedia articles via Twitch on Cynthia Self and Cheryl Ball. 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.

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Wikipedia as Public Scholarship

Friday 2/4 @ 12:00pm-1:30pm 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.

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Getting Started with WikiProject Writing

Friday 2/18 @ 1:30pm-3:00pm EST

Register (limited to 10 participants)

This 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.

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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).