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Writer/Designer, 2nd edition
citation 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…
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Promoting Openness in Professional Advancement Practices
citation 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. abstract 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,…
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Designing the PhD Curriculum in the Design Disciplines
citation 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. abstract 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…
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Sustainable Infrastructures and The Future of Writing Studies
citation 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…
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Teaching Multimodal Composition: A Manifesto
citation 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. supplemental materials Table of Contents (annotated)
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Computers & Writing Conference Proceedings
citation Founding Senior Editor. (2016–present). Computers & Writing Conference Proceedings. WAC Clearinghouse Press/Colorado State University Open Press. abstract 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…
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Network Sense: Methods for Visualizing a Discipline
citation 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] abstract xxx supplemental materials xxx
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“Many Voices: Building a Consortium of Small Scholarly Societies in the Humanities”
citation 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…
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“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…
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Pathways to Tech with a Liberal Arts Degree
citation 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…