Dr. Cheryl E. Ball

Category: Book Chapters

  • 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…

  • “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…

  • “All Writing is Multimodal”

    citation: Ball, Cheryl E., & Charlton, Colin. (forthcoming). All writing is multimodal. In Linda Adler-Kassner & Elizabeth Wardle (Eds.), Naming what we know: Threshold concepts of writing studies. Logan, UT: Utah State University Press. abstract: This encyclopedia-like entry on multimodality for the threshold concepts collection defines what multimodality is, why it is a useful concept…

  • 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…

  • “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…

  • "Talking Back to Teachers: Undergraduate Research in Multimodal Composition"

    citation Ball, Cheryl E., et al. (in progress). Talking back to teachers: Undergraduate research in multimodal composition. In Debra Journet, Cheryl E. Ball, and Ryan Trauman (Eds.) The new work of composing. Computers and Composition Digital Press/Utah State University Press. abstract This chapter is composed of 14 voices—12 undergraduates, 1 graduate student, and 1 faculty…

  • "Digital Scholarship and the New Work of the Book in Composition Studies"

    citation Journet, Debra; Ball, Cheryl E.; & Trauman, Ryan. (in progress). Digital scholarship and the new work of the book in composition studies. In Debra Journet, Cheryl E. Ball, & Ryan Trauman (Eds.) The new work of composing. Computers and Composition Digital Press/Utah State University Press. http://ccdigitalpress.org status Update 07/09: Prospectus with introduction submitted to…

  • "Toward a Reading Heuristic for New Media Texts"

    citation Ball, Cheryl E. (under review). Toward a reading heuristic for new media texts. Writing spaces: Readings on writings. http://writingspaces.org/ abstract Using terms familiar to composition, rhetoric, and their related disciplines (i.e., purpose, organization, emphasis, etc.), readers can shift their use of these concepts from written communication to interpret new media texts. I provide a…