Tag: peer-reviewed

  • “Building a scholarly multimedia publishing infrastructure”

    citation Ball, Cheryl E. (2017). Building a scholarly multimedia publishing infrastructure. Journal of Scholarly Publishing, 48(2), 99–115. abstract This article provides a preview of Vega, a new scholarly publishing platform in development (set to be released in late 2017). With twenty-plus years of experience publishing scholarly multimedia in the journal Kairos, the author summarizes editorial…

  • “Dialogue and PhD Design Supervision”

    citation Morrison, Andrew; Vaughan, Laurene; & Mainsah, Henry; & Ball, Cheryl E. (2015). Dialogue and PhD design supervision. In Proceedings of LearnXDesign. The 3rd International conference for design education researchers. Chicago, IL. abstract A doctorate in design stretches experience, acuity and knowledge in design practice into analysis and long form expository writing in an academic…

  • “History of a Broken Thing: The Multi-Journal Special Issue on Electronic Publication”

    citation Eyman, Douglas, & Ball, Cheryl E. (forthcoming/2015?). History of a broken thing: The multi-journal special issue on electronic publication. In Bruce McComisky (Ed.), Microhistories of composition (pp. forthcoming as Chapter 4). Logan, UT: Utah State University Press. abstract This chapter looks closely at the summer, multi-journal special issue on electronic publishing, simultaneously published across…

  • “Bad Ideas About Writing” – CFP

    “Bad Ideas About Writing” – CFP

    Call for Proposals: Bad Ideas About Writing Editors: Drew M. Loewe, St. Edward’s University and Cheryl E. Ball, West Virginia University Proposal Deadline: Sept 1, 2015 In the tradition of the provocative science- and social-science-focused book, This Idea Must Die,” the proposed collection intends to provide teachers, parents, and administrators with short, provocative, and thoroughly…

  • Vega: An Academic Publishing Platform

    citation Ball, Cheryl E., & Morrison, Andrew M. (co-PIs). (2015–17). Vega: An academic publishing platform [funding proposal]. Funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Scientific Communication and Information Technology program. $1,000,000. abstract The primary deliverable for this project is the free, open source EditMe platform, intended for publishing digital and media-rich scholarship. This editorial-management system…

  • “Multimodality as a Frame for Individual and Institutional Change”

    “Multimodality as a Frame for Individual and Institutional Change”

    citation Arola, Kristin; Sheppard, Jennifer, & Ball, Cheryl E. (2014, Jan. 10). Multimodality as a frame for individual and institutional change. Hybrid Pedagogy. Retrieved from http://www.hybridpedagogy.com/journal/multimodality-frame-individual-institutional-change/ abstract This article provides some historical, institutional, and theoretical context for a multimodal pedagogy, as taught by the three authors in three different universities, which forms the basis for…

  • “Multimodal Revision Techniques in Webtexts”

    “Multimodal Revision Techniques in Webtexts”

    citation Ball, Cheryl E. (2013). Multimodal revision techniques in webtexts. Classroom Discourse [special issue: Multimodality]. abstract This article examines how an online, scholarly journal, Kairos: Rhetoric, Technology, Pedagogy mentors authors to revise their webtexts (interactive, digital media scholarship) for publication. Using an editorial pedagogy, in which multimodal and rhetorical genre theories are merged with revision…

  • “Genre and transfer in a multimodal composition class”

    citation Ball, Cheryl E.; Fenn, Tyrell; & Scoffield Bowen, Tia. (2013). Genre and transfer in a multimodal composition class. In Carl Whithaus & Tracey Bowen (Eds.) Multimodal literacies and emerging genres in student compositions (pp. 15-36). Pittsburgh, PA: University of Pittsburgh Press. abstract This chapter is about a teacher’s progression through three iterations of a…

  • Fulbright Award

    I have received a Fulbright grant to research scholarly multimedia journals at the Oslo School of Architecture and Design in Norway during the 2013-14 academic year. My project has three facets: to implement the first scholarly multimedia journal outside of the U.S., at AHO, to draft a reference book on starting a scholarly multimedia journal,…

  • "Assessing Scholarly Multimedia"

    citation Ball, Cheryl E. (2012) Assessing scholarly multimedia: A rhetorical genre studies approach. Technical Communication Quarterly, 21(1). abstract This article describes what scholarly multimedia (i.e., webtexts) are and how one teacher-editor has students compose these texts as part of an assignment sequence in her writing classes. The article shows how one set of assessment criteria…