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Juneteenth + Pride Month

This month, we are working to prioritize the inclusion of content related to how race, gender, and history affect knowledge production about the arts of rhetoric, composition, and literacy by practicing inclusive citation practices and strategies for integrating knowledge communities across space and time. We aim to work together to address inequities on Wikipedia as we create and contribute to these articles.

Start by signing in or creating an account and clicking the button below to sign in to the event page. This will allow us to track your progress, offer specific tips and tricks, and acknowledge your accomplishments!

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Citation equity & justice edit

In the CCCC Position Statement on Citation Justice in Rhetoric, Composition, and Writing Studies, writing scholars are called to recognize that “citation is not only a way we build ethos and credibility for making arguments, but perhaps more importantly, a decision to amplify some voices over others, and an argument about whose voices and perspectives are valid, credible, and worth drawing from as we build knowledge in the discipline.” As a highly viewed, global, open-access, digital encyclopedia, Wikipedia stands out as one of the most vital platforms scholars can edit to support citation justice, especially for academics committed to knowledge equity as a fundamental groundwork for social justice.

When writing in citations and content that represent the diversity of fields and subfields in writing studies, we encourage scholars to practice the following heuristic put forth by the CCCC Position Statement on Citation Justice in Rhetoric, Composition, and Writing Studies:

  • Citation justice is intersectional.
  • Citation justice reflects the full scope of multiply marginalized people’s intellectual contributions.
  • Citation justice resists and rejects intellectual empire building.
  • Citation justice is accountable.

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After logging in or creating an account and signing in to our event dashboard, complete these steps to begin:

Step One: Head to our article worklist to find an article you'd like to work on.

Step Two: Create achievable goals for the month by reviewing our writing recommendations section.

Step Three: Use our editing resources section to help create a draft, assess notability, find sources, and/or request feedback.

Writing recommendations edit

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
  • 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 stub 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 edit

For this event, we are working on editing articles related to relevant scholars and areas of study related to queer activism in rhetoric and writing studies.

Scholars Field-specific article Scholarship
Aja Y. Martinez

Composition studies

(Faculty page)

  • Martinez, A.Y. (2020). Counterstory: The rhetoric and writing of critical race theory. National Council of Teachers of English, CCCC Studies in Writing and Rhetoric.
Eric Darnell Pritchard

Teaching writing in the United States

(Faculty page)

  • Pritchard, E. D. (2016). Fashioning lives: Black queers and the politics of literacy. Southern Illinois University Press.
Elaine Richardson (writer)

Teaching writing in the United States

(Faculty page)

  • Richardson, E. (2004). Coming from the heart: African American students, literacy stories, and rhetorical education. In E. B. Richardson & R. L. Jackson II (Eds.), African American rhetoric(s): Interdisciplinary perspectives (pp. 155–69). Southern Illinois University Press.
  • Richardson, Elaine and Alice Ragland. “#StayWoke: The Language and Literacies of the #BlackLivesMatter Movement.” Community Literacy Journal, vol. 12, no. 2, 2018, pp. 27-56.


Area of study Scholarship
Cultural rhetorics
  • Cultural Rhetorics Consortium Bibliography
  • Cultural Rhetorics Theory Lab. “Our Story Begins Here: Constellating Cultural Rhetorics.” Enculturation: A Journal of Rhetoric, Writing, and Culture vol. 18, 2014.
  • 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.

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Juneteenth + Pride Month Programming and Events edit

This Juneteenth and Pride Month, the CCCC Wikipedia Initiative is hosting two speaker series events to support knowledge equity on Wikipedia. In addition, the CCCC Wikipedian-in-Residence will continue to hold office hours.

CCCCWI Speaker Series: Wikipedia Editing for Knowledge Liberation edit

This month, join Dr. Alexandria Lockett for a two-day exploration of how Wikipedia editing affects knowledge production about the arts of rhetoric, composition, and literacy. She will provide plenty of hands-on support and resources throughout the event.

On Day 1, Dr. Lockett will deliver a presentation that addresses three main topics: the emergence of new technologies and data, inclusive citation practices, and strategies for integrating knowledge communities across space and time. After the talk, participants will be trained on how to edit Wikipedia by Savannah Cragin, the CCCC Wikipedian-in-Residence. There will be opportunities to improve and create Wikipedia articles related to pivotal scholars and scholarship on rhetoric, composition, and literacy. On Day 2, all participants will be able to begin or continue editing an article(s) of their choice, as well as identify specific projects and practices that they plan to integrate into their teaching, research, and/or community engagement.

Dates and Times:
Day 1: Friday, June 9, 2023 at 3:00 PM ET
Day 2: Saturday, June 10, 2023 at 3:00 PM ET

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CCCCWI Speaker Series: Queer Activism in Rhetoric and Writing Studies edit

This month, Erin Green, a graduate student at the University of Maryland studying abolition in literacy and composition studies, and Dr. Elise Dixon, an assistant professor of English and the writing center director at the University of North Carolina at Pembroke will have a conversation about contextualizing their research with activists, the ever-growing anti-LGBTQ legislation, and the general state of queer activist research.

After the talk, participants will be trained on how to edit Wikipedia. There will be opportunities to improve and create Wikipedia articles related to pivotal scholars and scholarship on queer activism in rhetoric and writing studies.

Date and Time: Friday, June 30, 2023 at 1:00 PM ET

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CCCCWI Office Hours edit

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 or email me to suggest another time (savannahcragin@berkeley.edu).

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