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“Composing for Digital Publication: Rhetoric, Design, Code”

June 15, 2014 Columns Comments Off on “Composing for Digital Publication: Rhetoric, Design, Code”

citation:
Eyman, Douglas, & Ball, Cheryl E. (2014). Composing for digital publication: Rhetoric, design, code. Composition Studies, 42(1), 114-117.

abstract:

This brief article, included as part of a special section on the state of digital publishing in rhetoric and composition, offers three critical practices for composition that accommodate the many media, modes, and delivery mechanics in use today: rhetoric, design, and code.

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“Multimodal Revision Techniques in Webtexts”

July 11, 2013 Articles, Peer-Reviewed Comments Off on “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 techniques found in process-based composition studies, the author describes how webtexts are collaboratively peer-reviewed in Kairos and authors are provided macro- and micro-level revision suggestions for their scholarly multimedia.

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"The Contestation of Multimodality in New Media Scholarship"

December 1, 2009 Presentations, Invited Comments Off on "The Contestation of Multimodality in New Media Scholarship"

citation
Ball, Cheryl E. (2009, Dec. 2). The contestation of multimodality in new media scholarship. Visual Culture Colloquium, Illinois State University, Normal, IL.

poster for talk, designed by Michele Melanie

poster for talk, designed by Michele Melanie

abstract
Kairos: A Journal of Rhetoric, Technology, and Pedagogy has been publishing digital media scholarship since 1996, and each new medium and digital technology offers authors changing ways that they can make meaning through visual, aural, linguistic, and other modes of communication. As editor of Kairos, it is my responsibility to understand the often cutting-edge and genre-bending moves authors make in their submissions to this rhetoric and composition journal. I will present a few examples of submissions (historical and recent) that required the staff and editorial board members to re-negotiate the ever-changing boundaries between ‘typical’ digital scholarship and “new media scholarship,” exemplified by the relationship between the visual and the linguistic (i.e., written).

accompanying materials

  • Prezi presentation

"Designing Digital Scholarship (And Having it Count)"

October 29, 2009 Presentations, Conference Comments Off on "Designing Digital Scholarship (And Having it Count)"

citation
Ball, Cheryl E. (2008, October 17). Designing digital scholarship (and having it count): A case built on three perspectives. Thomas R. Watson Conference on Rhetoric and Composition, University of Louisville, Louisville, KY.

abstract
In this panel session, three presenters spoke to digital projects they had undertaken (a digital archive, a wiktionary, and a scholarly webtext published in Kairos), discussing compositional, revision, and “counting” issues relating to tenure and promotion. I responded to the panelists based on my experience as editor of Kairos, as a junior faculty member using a lot of digital scholarship in my tenure case, and as a promoter/user of digital portfolios to make tenure arguments.

accompanying materials

  • none available

"Digital Scholarship Roundtable"

October 29, 2009 Presentations, Conference Comments Off on "Digital Scholarship Roundtable"

citation
Ball, Cheryl E. (2008, October 16). Digital scholarship roundtable. Thomas R. Watson Conference on Rhetoric and Composition, University of Louisville, Louisville, KY.

abstract
In this session, five presenters — all editors of online journals or presses — speak to the state of digital scholarship, including issues regarding submission, tenure & promotion, professional development, and curricular importance. The majority of the session was for Q&A. I spoke about Kairos, the journal I edit.

accompanying materials

  • none available

"Preparing for Graduate School"

October 29, 2009 Presentations, Conference Comments Off on "Preparing for Graduate School"

citation
Ball, Cheryl E. (2007, October 6). Preparing for graduate school. MUSE Undergraduate Literary Studies Conference. Illinois Wesleyan University, Bloomington, IL.

abstract
This roundtable provided undergraduate students the opportunity to ask questions about how and why to apply to graduate school, what the expectations are for different kinds of schools, and how to choose which school(s) to attend.

accompanying materials

  • none available

"Multimodal Composition Practices: Overviews and Impacts on Tenure & Promotion"

October 29, 2009 Presentations, Conference Comments Off on "Multimodal Composition Practices: Overviews and Impacts on Tenure & Promotion"

citation
Ball, Cheryl E. (2006, July). Multimodal composition practices: Overviews and impacts on tenure & promotion. Virtual Reality & Real Life (VR@RL) Conference [Online].

abstract
In this online asynchronous session, I presented results and discussion from the CCCC Survey on multimodal practices, with particular emphasis on the section about tenure and promotion issues for scholars working in digital media.

accompanying materials

"Editing as Rhetoric Research"

October 29, 2009 Presentations, Conference Comments Off on "Editing as Rhetoric Research"

citation
Ball, Cheryl E. (2008, December 30). Roundtable on rhetoric research: Editing as rhetoric research. Modern Language Association, San Francisco, CA.

abstract
In this roundtable presentation, seven presenters produced papers or video descriptions answering the question “what is rhetoric research?” Session chairs Jenn Fishmann and Stacy Pigg mixed the individual presentations together into a whole that showcased several threads running through each presenter’s remarks. I addressed how editing digital media scholarship is a form of rhetoric research through showing the intellectual labor of editorial processes.

accompanying materials

  • my 5-minute video
  • the 30-minute video is not available

"Value Added: The Shape of the E-Journal"

October 29, 2009 Presentations, Conference Comments Off on "Value Added: The Shape of the E-Journal"

citation
Ball, Cheryl E. (2009, December 28). Value added: The shape of the e-journal. Modern Language Association, Philadelphia, PA.

abstract
A poster-like session of electronic journal editors focusing on what one can do with online journals that would not be possible in print journals. I address digital media scholarship through examination of my role as editor of Kairos.

accompanying materials

"Mentoring Electronically and From a Distance"

October 29, 2009 Presentations, Conference Comments Off on "Mentoring Electronically and From a Distance"

citation
Ball, Cheryl E, & Rickly, Becky. (2010, March 17). Mentoring electronically and from a distance. Coalition of Women Scholars. Conference on College Composition and Communication, Louisville, KY.

abstract
In roundtable style, Rickly and Ball will offer suggestions for how to distance-mentor (and be mentored) through use of information communication technologies.

accompanying materials

  • not available yet
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