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Writer/Designer, 2nd edition

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Ball, Cheryl E.; Sheppard, Jennifer; & Arola, Kristin L. (2017). Writer/designer: A guide to making multimodal projects, 2nd ed. Boston, MA: Bedford/St. Martin’s Press.

abstract

In this second edition of the textbook, I provided lead authorship in the revision and additions, including an additional 60 pages of content and a total revision of the examples, assignments, and structure of the book, featuring additional design-thinking concepts for both multimodal-based writing classes and traditional writing classes.

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Promoting Openness in Professional Advancement Practices

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Konkiel, Stacy, Ball, Cheryl E., Barrett, Kim, Berkery, Peter, et al. (2017). Promoting openness in professional advancement practices. Open Scholarship Initiative. Fairfax, VA: George Mason University Press.

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In this report, we unpack how professional advancement practices—including and beyond promotion and tenure review standards—can be realigned to encourage researchers’ adoption of open access, open research, and open educational practices.

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Designing the PhD Curriculum in the Design Disciplines

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Mainsah, Henry; Morrison, Andrew; Aspen, Jonny; & Ball, Cheryl E. (2017). Designing the PhD curriculum in the design disciplines. In Laurene Vaughan (Ed.) Practice-based design research. London, UK: Bloomsbury.

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In this chapter we focus on the challenges and potentials in the design of a curriculum for doctoral education in design-related disciplines in increasingly interdisciplinary contexts and where the PhD is located within a wider research project or strategic research area. We do so with reference to the implications for the growth of pedagogies that support doctoral students’ professional development as researchers beyond formal taught courses in the confines of a PhD school and the role of participation in wider research project based inquiry and the role of supervisory support.

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Sustainable Infrastructures and The Future of Writing Studies

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Ball, Cheryl E. (2015). Sustainable infrastructures and the future of writing studies. WPA: Writing Program Administration, 39(1), 122–137.

abstract

Given as one of the plenaries at the Council for Writing Program Administration conference in 2015, this revised-for-print article weaves a tale about the good and bad sustainability practices in technical infrastructures within rhetoric and composition studies.

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Teaching Multimodal Composition: A Manifesto

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Ball, Cheryl E. (forthcoming/2017). Teaching multimodal composition: A manifesto. Practice & Pedagogy Series, WAC Clearinghouse Press/Colorado State University Open Press.

abstract

This book traces a personal and theoretical history of teaching multimodal composition through eight annotated chapters, including an annotated syllabus.

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Computers & Writing Conference Proceedings

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Founding Senior Editor. (2016–present). Computers & Writing Conference Proceedings. WAC Clearinghouse Press/Colorado State University Open Press.

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The inaugural print proceedings for the Computers & Writing conference will be published Fall 2017 by the WAC Clearinghouse Press. The editorial team consists of Chen Chen, Kris Purzycki, and Lydia Wilkes, with Ball providing editorial oversight and training on workflows. As of September 2017, the first issue is in final copy-editing.

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Network Sense: Methods for Visualizing a Discipline

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Network Sense: Methods for Visualizing a Discipline by Derek Mueller. Forthcoming Fall 2017. [see TOC co-publicized with the Digital Publishing Institute’s Open Textbooks website]

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“Many Voices: Building a Consortium of Small Scholarly Societies in the Humanities”

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Ball, Cheryl E. [PI] et al. (2017–18). Many voices: A consortium for sustaining small, scholarly societies. Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, Scholarly Communication platform. $59,500.

executive summary

As a collaborative group of faculty, scholarly publishers, and digital scholarship professionals, our 2016 Triangle SCI project team is collectively seeking a 12-month planning grant from the Mellon Foundation in the amount of $59,500 to explore the possibility of establishing a consortium of small scholarly societies (those with fewer than 1,000 members) in the humanities. The purpose of such a consortium would be to consolidate the recurrent and often time-consuming administrative functions that all scholarly societies face, but that are especially burdensome for small societies with limited or no professional staff. The ultimate aim of such an administrative consortium would be to allow these societies to focus their efforts on core activities and membership benefits—such as publishing a scholarly journal—rather than on the more mundane “business of the business.”

The planning grant will cover 12 months of research and analysis, which will include an in-person meeting involving the project team and stakeholders from a range of small scholarly societies to explore the consortium idea and an online survey of small-society officers based on the in-person discussion to further vet the idea. While the planning grant is meant to move us toward consortium-building, the centralization envisioned would be in service of several larger goals: to help small societies achieve financial stability through greater efficiencies; to support small societies’ efforts to develop scholars and academic leaders in their respective disciplines; and to provide a forum in which small societies can collectively consider potential alternative approaches to traditional publication, including open access.

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“Building a scholarly multimedia publishing infrastructure”

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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 practices for multimedia content in terms of the scholarly, social, and technical infrastructures required to sustain digital media-rich publishing venues. Vega is an outgrowth of those practices that aims to provide a stable platform for training editors, publishers, and authors in how to create, edit, and maintain the scholarly record.

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Pathways to Tech with a Liberal Arts Degree

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Ball, Cheryl E. (2016, October 7). Pathways to tech with a liberal arts degree. West Virginia Women and Technology Conference, Canaan Valley, WV.

abstract

This presentation was part of the 2016 West Virginia Women and Technology Conference and argues that a liberal arts degree provides graduates with communication and writing skills that are essential in the tech industry.

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(view on SlideShare to see presentation notes)