Writers: Craft & Context
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<p>Welcome to <em>Writers: Craft & Context</em>, an open-access interdisciplinary journal that publishes a wide array of material focused on writers: the work they do, the contexts in which they compose and circulate their work, how they are impacted by policies and pedagogies (broadly conceived) and how they develop across the lifespan. We invite contributions from a range of academic fields such as writing studies, cultural studies, education, psychology, sociology, literature and modern languages as well as from community experts outside academia, including program leaders, activists, volunteers, artists, and others who see, support, and do the work of writing in non-academic contexts. We are eager to publish traditional and creative genres including research articles, reflections on methodology, pedagogy pieces, collaborative or multi-voice works, collages, essays, creative nonfiction, interviews and more.<span style="font-weight: 400;"> </span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">We welcome work on writers that doesn’t fit neatly elsewhere. In a departure from traditional academic journals, WCC Journal will serve as a venue for writers “to speak with (rather than for and over) others’ communities”.* We are committed to a vision of “equitable representation in our scholarship and in our field at large” and, as editors, we take seriously our responsibility “to create the conditions to make it happen” (274).** Visit our “<a href="https://journals.shareok.org/writersccjournal/about">About</a>” page for more about the commitments driving WCC Journal. </span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">* “Open Letter” Black, Latinx, American Indian, Queer Caucus, Asian/Asian American Caucuses, NCTE & CCCC, December 2018.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">**Blewett, Kelly, LaVecchia, Christina M., Micciche, Laura, R., and Morris, Janine. (2019). Editing as Inclusion Activism. <em>College English</em>, 81(4), 273-296.<br /></span></p>University of Oklahoma Librariesen-USWriters: Craft & Context2688-9595Cover Art
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2023-09-082023-09-0841iiii10.15763/issn.2688-9595.2023.4.1.iiEditor's Introduction
https://journals.shareok.org/writersccjournal/article/view/114
Aja MartinezSandra TarabochiaMichele Eodice
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2023-09-082023-09-08411210.15763/issn.2688-9595.2023.4.1.1-2A Record of Revision
https://journals.shareok.org/writersccjournal/article/view/78
<p>This is a poem about reflexivity in research and writing.</p>Rosanna Vail
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2023-09-082023-09-08413310.15763/issn.2688-9595.2023.4.1.3Putting It All on the Table
https://journals.shareok.org/writersccjournal/article/view/69
<p>In this autoethnographic article, I argue that the recent and trending new materialist focus within composition studies—which tends to assume the privilege of agency and unmitigated choice on behalf of writers regarding their writing environments (Prior and Shipka, 2002; Alexis, 2016)—doesn’t necessarily hold space for writers whose writing environments regularly yield to and are shaped by the preferences, habits, and material effects of actors outside of themselves—namely, their children. In making my argument about the particular effects of such mutliagent writing environments, I use a materialist lens to reveal and analyze my own and other single mother graduate student writers’ (SMGSWs) scenes of writing, hoping to invite reflection on what assumptions we may hold about the writing environments of our students, our colleagues, and ourselves.</p>Jayne Stone
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2023-09-082023-09-084141410.15763/issn.2688-9595.2023.4.1.4-14The South Ain't a Lost Cause
https://journals.shareok.org/writersccjournal/article/view/70
<p>With so many dominant narratives about the South being “the embarrassing part of the country” because of its seemingly conservative politics, it’s easy to think of this region of the United States as a place beyond redemption. In this piece, I describe the current state of Southern politics (e.g., voter suppression, gerrymandering, and other Right-wing attacks), and how these policies have led to a misleading narrative of the South that ignores the political work of Black queer Southerners. After an analysis of Southern political discourse, I craft a story about a Black queer community organizer tasked with amplifying the voices of marginalized Southerners during a presidential election for a campaign that wants to write off the South for its conservative policies. My counterstory not only rejects the majoritarian narrative that erases the progressive work of Black queer activism, but also provides a heuristic for exposing racist power structures and politically investing in marginalized communities.</p>Erin Green
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2023-09-082023-09-0841152610.15763/issn.2688-9595.2023.4.1.15-26Bringing a Burden to Bear
https://journals.shareok.org/writersccjournal/article/view/68
<p>In this essay, I consider my position as a multiply marginalized scholar teaching within vastly different spaces—in a neocolonized island territory of the US with a minority majority student population; then to rural, land grant, and predominantly White institutions on the West coast; to a private urban campus in one of the original US colonies. I think deeply about my responsibilities, my complicity, and what it means to carry this weight, truly, across America, in order to confront the complexity of what “America” is alongside my students. To address this complexity of contexts, I look to the ways Amerindian and American Indigenous rhetorics bear against colonial injustice<br />through language.</p>Tabitha Espina
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2023-09-082023-09-0841273010.15763/issn.2688-9595.2023.4.1.27-30Writing in the Profession
https://journals.shareok.org/writersccjournal/article/view/77
<p>A conversation between five students and a faculty member, this article explores the experience of writing as a graduate student. Areas of conversation include tensions between being students, writers, and teachers; individuality and vulnerability; and writing in/as community. </p>Troy AndrewsCameron BeckerMary GilmoreSteve LivelyElizabeth OsifalujoDeborah Mix
Copyright (c) 2023 Troy Andrews, Cameron Becker, Mary Gilmore, Steve Lively, Elizabeth Osifalujo, Deborah Mix
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2023-09-082023-09-0841315110.15763/issn.2688-9595.2023.4.1.31-51Critical Theory, Critical Race Representations
https://journals.shareok.org/writersccjournal/article/view/112
<p>This is the lead contribution for the series of fourteen student essays that follow. This first contribution offers contextual information about the course as well as suggestions for replicating this course in other contexts. Provided course materials are a course schedule, readings, and assignments. </p>Aja Y MartinezRobert O. Smith
Copyright (c) 2023 Aja Y Martinez; Robert O. Smith
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2023-09-082023-09-0841525910.15763/issn.2688-9595.2023.4.1.52-59Critical Essay 1
https://journals.shareok.org/writersccjournal/article/view/115
<p class="p1">This essay is an undergraduate student essay responding to the Critical Analysis assignment associated with the Martinez and Smith article (within this issue 4.1): "<a href="https://journals.shareok.org/writersccjournal/article/view/112">Critical Theory, Critical Race Representations: Counterstory as Literary Intervention</a>"</p> <p class="p1"> </p>Emily Bailey
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2023-09-082023-09-0841606210.15763/issn.2688-9595.2023.4.1.60-62Waiting for History
https://journals.shareok.org/writersccjournal/article/view/116
<p>This essay is an undergraduate student essay responding to the Critical Analysis assignment associated with the Martinez and Smith article (within this issue 4.1): "<a href="https://journals.shareok.org/writersccjournal/article/view/112">Critical Theory, Critical Race Representations: Counterstory as Literary Intervention</a>"</p>Cat Sylvia Blackwell
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2023-09-082023-09-0841636810.15763/issn.2688-9595.2023.4.1.63-68Policing the Black Experience and Critical Race Theory
https://journals.shareok.org/writersccjournal/article/view/117
<p class="p1">This essay is an undergraduate student essay responding to the Critical Analysis assignment associated with the Martinez and Smith article (within this issue 4.1): "<a href="https://journals.shareok.org/writersccjournal/article/view/112">Critical Theory, Critical Race Representations: Counterstory as Literary Intervention</a>"</p>Nicholas Durham
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2023-09-082023-09-0841697210.15763/issn.2688-9595.2023.4.1.69-72Williams’s Polar Bears
https://journals.shareok.org/writersccjournal/article/view/118
<p>This essay is an undergraduate student essay responding to the Critical Analysis assignment associated with the Martinez and Smith article (within this issue 4.1): "<a href="https://journals.shareok.org/writersccjournal/article/view/112">Critical Theory, Critical Race Representations: Counterstory as Literary Intervention</a>"</p>Grace Leuschen
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2023-09-082023-09-0841737510.15763/issn.2688-9595.2023.4.1.73-75Counterstory and Representation Through Media
https://journals.shareok.org/writersccjournal/article/view/119
<p class="p1">This essay is an undergraduate student essay responding to the Critical Analysis assignment associated with the Martinez and Smith article (within this issue 4.1): "<a href="https://journals.shareok.org/writersccjournal/article/view/112">Critical Theory, Critical Race Representations: Counterstory as Literary Intervention</a>"</p>V. Manuel Muñiz
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2023-09-082023-09-0841767810.15763/issn.2688-9595.2023.4.1.76-78How Alice Walker Shaped Derrick Bell’s Counterstory
https://journals.shareok.org/writersccjournal/article/view/121
<p class="p1">This essay is an undergraduate student essay responding to the Critical Analysis assignment associated with the Martinez and Smith article (within this issue 4.1): "<a href="https://journals.shareok.org/writersccjournal/article/view/112">Critical Theory, Critical Race Representations: Counterstory as Literary Intervention</a>"</p>Eva Thor
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2023-09-082023-09-0841828410.15763/issn.2688-9595.2023.4.1.82-84New Trek, 90s Trek, & the Permanence of Racism
https://journals.shareok.org/writersccjournal/article/view/122
<p>This essay is an undergraduate student essay responding to the Counterstory Seminar Project<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>assignment associated with the Martinez and Smith article (within this issue 4.1):<a href="https://journals.shareok.org/writersccjournal/article/view/112"> "Critical Theory, Critical Race Representations: Counterstory as Literary Intervention"</a></p>Josephine Collins
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2023-09-082023-09-0841858910.15763/issn.2688-9595.2023.4.1.85-89Mi Mamá, La que Llora
https://journals.shareok.org/writersccjournal/article/view/123
<p class="p1">This essay is an undergraduate student essay responding to the Counterstory Seminar Project<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>assignment associated with the Martinez and Smith article (within this issue 4.1):<a href="https://journals.shareok.org/writersccjournal/article/view/112"> "Critical Theory, Critical Race Representations: Counterstory as Literary Intervention"</a></p>Natali Coronado
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2023-09-082023-09-0841909310.15763/issn.2688-9595.2023.4.1.90-93Beloved
https://journals.shareok.org/writersccjournal/article/view/124
<p>This essay is an undergraduate student essay responding to the Counterstory Seminar Project<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>assignment associated with the Martinez and Smith article (within this issue 4.1):<a href="https://journals.shareok.org/writersccjournal/article/view/112"> "Critical Theory, Critical Race Representations: Counterstory as Literary Intervention"</a></p>Kaley Johnson
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2023-09-082023-09-0841949610.15763/issn.2688-9595.2023.4.1.94-96Intersectionality in South Park
https://journals.shareok.org/writersccjournal/article/view/126
<p class="p1">This essay is an undergraduate student essay responding to the Counterstory Seminar Project<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>assignment associated with the Martinez and Smith article (within this issue 4.1):<a href="https://journals.shareok.org/writersccjournal/article/view/112"> "Critical Theory, Critical Race Representations: Counterstory as Literary Intervention"</a></p>Sami Pray
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2023-09-082023-09-0841979910.15763/issn.2688-9595.2023.4.1.97-99Flesh, Blood, and Counterstory
https://journals.shareok.org/writersccjournal/article/view/127
<p class="p1">This essay is an undergraduate student essay responding to the Counterstory Seminar Project<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>assignment associated with the Martinez and Smith article (within this issue 4.1):<a href="https://journals.shareok.org/writersccjournal/article/view/112"> "Critical Theory, Critical Race Representations: Counterstory as Literary Intervention"</a></p>McKenzie Shoemaker
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2023-09-082023-09-084110010310.15763/issn.2688-9595.2023.4.1.100-103A Counterstory
https://journals.shareok.org/writersccjournal/article/view/128
<p>This essay is an undergraduate student essay responding to the Counterstory Seminar Project<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>assignment associated with the Martinez and Smith article (within this issue 4.1):<a href="https://journals.shareok.org/writersccjournal/article/view/112"> "Critical Theory, Critical Race Representations: Counterstory as Literary Intervention"</a></p>Alaia Snell
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2023-09-082023-09-084110410810.15763/issn.2688-9595.2023.4.1.104-108Model M
https://journals.shareok.org/writersccjournal/article/view/129
<p>This essay is an undergraduate student essay responding to the Counterstory Seminar Project<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>assignment associated with the Martinez and Smith article (within this issue 4.1):<a href="https://journals.shareok.org/writersccjournal/article/view/112"> "Critical Theory, Critical Race Representations: Counterstory as Literary Intervention"</a></p>Sam Thiersch
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2023-09-082023-09-084110911410.15763/issn.2688-9595.2023.4.1.109-114Teaching ChatGPT for Grant Writing
https://journals.shareok.org/writersccjournal/article/view/125
<p>In the spring of 2023, stirred by reports that AI was radically transforming the writing industry (and "creating an epidemic of cheating"), I taught my Department of English senior capstone students how to use ChatGPT to write grants. In this brief write-up, I describe my rationale for teaching about the AI (to get students jobs); how it can fit into writing studies best practices (e.g., process pedagogy); ways to create assignments that might limit its use (localization and contextualization); as well as a few fast and messy activities and student process examples that evolved over the<br />semester. The students chose to offer their writing using a first name only and a pseudonym.</p>Will Kurlinkus
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2023-09-082023-09-084111512410.15763/issn.2688-9595.2023.4.1.115-124