Tag: closed-access
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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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“CIWIC, DMAC, and Technology Professional Development in Rhet/Comp” double special issue
citations DeVoss, Dànielle Nicole; Ball, Cheryl E.; Selfe, Cynthia; & DeWitt, Scott Lloyd. (Eds.). (2015, June). CIWIC, DMAC, and technology professional development in rhetoric and composition [Special issue]. Computers and Composition, 36, 1-66. Ball, Cheryl E.; DeVoss, Dànielle Nicole; Selfe, Cynthia; & DeWitt, Scott Lloyd. (Eds.). (2015, June). CIWIC, DMAC, and technology professional development in…
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“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…
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“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…
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“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…
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"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…
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"Multimodal Composition & the Rhetoric of Teaching"
citation Mahon, Wade. (2011). Multimodal composition & the rhetoric of teaching: A conversation with Cheryl Ball. Issues in Writing 18(2). abstract Cheryl Ball is an Associate Professor of New Media Studies at Illinois State University where she teaches courses on multimodal composition as well as digital media, composition theory, and digital publishing. She gives talks…
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"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…
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"visualizing composition"
Ball, Cheryl E., & Arola, Kristin L. (2010). visualizing composition (2nd ed.). Boston: Bedford/St. Martin’s Press. http://ix.bedfordstmartins.com [password required] description [the ‘cover’ blurb] ix visualizing composition is a concrete introduction to the fundamentals of multimodal composition. Each tutorial moves through the following three steps: Define. Illustrated definitions help you visualize principles of layout, design and…
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Quoted in "Take 20: Teaching Writing"
citation Taylor, Todd. [Writer/Director]. (2007). Take 20: Teaching writing [DVD]. Boston: Bedford-St. Martin’s. description A one-hour documentary film that interviews 22 rhetoric and composition specialists about the top issues in writing studies and the teaching of writing. This resource is freely available as a professional development resource through Bedford-St. Martin’s Press. accompanying materials trailer (I’m…