Dr. Cheryl E. Ball

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  • The Boutique is Open: Data for Writing Studies

    citation Ball, Cheryl E.; Graban, Tarez Samra; & Sidler, Michelle. (under review). The boutique is open: Data for writing studies. abstract This chapter takes up the issue of open data for networked humanities scholars, specifically through small, or boutique, data sets created by writing researchers. In contrast to a national funding focus on big data…

  • “Digital Humanities Scholarship and Electronic Publication”

    citation Eyman, Douglas, & Ball, Cheryl E. (under review). Digital humanities scholarship and electronic publication. In Jim Ridolfo & Bill Hart-Davidson (Eds.), Rhetoric and the digital humanities. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press. abstract This chapter argues that the publication and dissemination of digital scholarship relies upon three critical forms of infrastructure: scholarly, social, and…

  • “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…

  • “Pirates of Metadata: The True Adventures…of a Harrowing Metadata Mining Project”

    This work originally appeared in “Common Ground at the Nexus of Information Literacy and Scholarly Communication” edited by Stephanie Davis-Kahl and Merinda Kaye Hensley. Chicago, IL: Association of College & Research Libraries, 2013. Any use of this work must be accompanied by this notification. Citation Ball, Cheryl E. (2013). Pirates of metadata: The true adventures…

  • “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,…

  • "Adapting Editorial Peer Review of Webtexts for Classroom Use"

    citation Ball, Cheryl E. (2013). Adapting editorial peer review of webtexts for classroom use. Writing & Pedagogy. Firewalled at http://www.equinoxjournals.com/WAP/index abstract This article picks up, literally, where another one leaves off: “Assessing Scholarly Multimedia: A Rhetorical Genre-Studies Approach” in Technical Communication Quarterly (Ball, 2012). In that article, I describe how I have brought my editorial-mentoring…

  • "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…

  • "Designerly ≠ Readerly"

    citation Ball, Cheryl E. (2006, November). Designerly ≠ readerly: Re-assessing multimodal and new media rubrics for writing studies. Convergence: The International Journal for Research into New Media Technologies, 12, 393–412. Special issue on re-assessing new media. abstract In this article, I draw on Gunther Kress and Theo van Leeuwen’s (2001) Multimodal Discourse: The Modes and…

  • "Show, Not Tell: The Value of New Media Scholarship"

    citation Ball, Cheryl E. (2004). Show, not tell: The value of new media scholarship. Computers & Composition, 21(4). 403–425. abstract In this article, I consider the changing nature of publications in relation to technology and tenure, presenting a taxonomy of scholarly publications: online scholarship, scholarship about new media, and new media scholarship. I offer a…