The lab is hosting a open house this coming Friday that showcases the pedagogical work that our staff members have been doing this semester. We're planning on rearranging one of our rooms a bit to fit everyone in, and this got us thinking about how drastically the physical classroom can...
From the Archive: Preparing White Papers in the CWRL
We'd like to kick off our "From the Archive" series with former lab director Peg Syverson's initial white paper. It "launches the CWRL White Paper Series. It establishes a rationale, principles, and guidelines for structuring white papers and suggests how they might be distributed and archived for future use." The...
Fall 2015 Courses
The Digital Writing and Research Lab is proud to host the following courses: (more…)
Introducing Our Fall 2015 Research Priorities: Activist Twitter and Race
The Research Priority for Social Media in 2015 is ‘Activist Twitter and Race’. Twitter has emerged as a significant site for activism and activist rhetorics, and it has been an especially important nexus of Black activism. Hashtags like #BlackLivesMatter, #Ferguson, #IfIDieInPoliceCustody, and #ICantBreathe, among others, have drawn attention to stories...
Introducing our Fall 2015 Research Priorities: Augmented Reality
Our 2015 Priority in Locative Media is Augmented Reality. Mobile interfaces—including but not limited to smartphones and wearable devices—allow information and sensory experience to be layered over the physical-geographic world, mediating and supplementing users’ perceptions of ‘reality’, space, and place. Given the increased prevalence of such technologies and intense recent interest in rhetorics of...
Introducing Our Fall 2015 Research Priorities: Typography
In the 2015-2016 academic year, researchers in the Multimodal Writing Research Area will research modern typography and explore the technological, pedagogical, and theoretical relevance of typography to digital rhetorics. The proliferation of design technologies give users an increasing opportunity to make design choices; typography, sometimes assumed to be rhetorically neutral,...
Fall 2015 DWRL Staff Orientation
Welcome Fall 2015 Staff Members! (more…)
Resources for Instructors
Are you an instructor looking for resources about digital pedagogy? Check out our retired Lesson Plan site, and our retired Blogging Pedagogy site. Make sure you check back soon for more content related to digital pedagogies.
Introducing Our Research Areas: Social Media
In recent years, social media websites have become increasingly popular venues for rhetorical exchange as well as social and political engagement. They have also attracted the attention of teachers and researchers interested in writing in digital environments. (more…)
Introducing Our Research Areas: Multimodal Writing
The Multimodal Writing research area is founded on the assumption that all writing is already multimodal—even traditional or analog writing. “Multimodal writing,” then, is not simply the practice of remediating text or supplementing it with additional media; rather, the DWRL sees “multimodality” as being at the core of writing itself—a...