Current Issue

Volume 56 | Fall 2025

Contents

From the Editors
Christian Weisser, Gavin P. Johnson, and Eric House

Interview

You Have to Take a Stand: An Interview with Ian Barnard
Walter Lucken IV

Retrospective

“The New Illiteracy”: “Why Johnny Can’t Write” at 50
Carl Schlachte

Articles

Rhetorical Strategies of Access-Making: A Technē of Access in Writing Pedagogy
Kathleen Lyons

Adding to the Qualitative Research Method Toolkit: Eliciting and Coding Participant Drawings
J. Michael Rifenburg, Jenn Mallette, and Rebecca Nowacek

Let’s Do the Math: Construct-Focused RAD Research for Greater Pedagogical Self-Awareness
Joseph Forte

Habits of Mind as Heuristic for Asset-Based Reflection in First-Year Writing: Students’ Perspectives
Paige V. Banaji and Kathryn Comer

Tracing Transfer: Curriculum Development for Multilingual Writers in First-Year Writing
Yan Li

Collaborative and Equitable Assessment: Graduate Student Responses to Co-Creating Feedback Guidelines in a Graduate Composition Pedagogy Course
Megan McIntyre

Program Profiles

Supporting Multilingual Writers: Insights from the AUS Writing Center
Maria Eleftheriou and Sana Sayed

Lab Notes as Disciplinary Literacy: Developing an Integrated, Genre-Based Writing Curriculum in a First-Year Engineering Physics Program
Raffaella Negretti, Hans Malmström, and Jonathan Weidow

Bloom Where You’re Planted: Integrating Writing Knowledge into a Scottish Initial Teacher Education Programme
Rebekah Sims and Sharon Hunter

Sustaining Collective Actions: Program Assessment During Transitional Moments
Shane A. Wood, Nikolas Gardiakos, Matthew Bryan, Natalie Madruga, Pamela Baker, Joel Schneier, Joel Bergholtz, Emily Proulx, Vee Kennedy, Ricky Finch, Mya Poe, Norbert Elliot, and Sherry Rankins-Robertson

Reviews

Review of Multimodal Composing and Writing Transfer, edited by Kara Poe Alexander, Matthew Davis, Lilian W. Mina, and Ryan P. Shepherd
Taylor J. Wyatt

Review of William Macauley, Jr., Leslie R. Anglesey, Brady Edwards, Kathryn M. Lambrecht, and Phillip K. Lovas’s Threshold Conscripts: Rhetoric and Composition Teaching Assistantships
Meghan Hancock

Review of Julia Kiernan, Alanna Frost, and Suzanne Blum Malley’s Translingual Pedagogical Perspectives: Engaging Domestic and International Students in the Composition Classroom
Gitte Frandsen

Review of Mentorship/Methodology: Reflections, Praxis, and Futures, edited by Leigh Gruwell and Charles N. Lesh
Molly Ryan

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