Explore scholarly publications from the Department of Writing and Rhetoric faculty at the University of Rhode Island.

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Submissions from 2025

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Sylvan Rhetoric in the Planes of Plato’s Phaedrus, Madison Jones

Submissions from 2022

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Defining a Flexible Notion of “Good” STEM Writing Across Contexts: Lessons Learned From a Cross-Institutional Conversation, Sara M. Grady, Jenna Morton-Aiken, Caroline Gottschalk Druschke, Ingrid E. Lofgren, Nancy E. Karraker, Scott R. McWilliams, Nedra Reynolds, Elaine Finan, Patti L. Wolter, Donna R. Leff, and Michael Kennedy

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Tracking Memes in the Wild: Visual Rhetoric and Image Circulation in Environmental Communication, Madison Jones, Aaron Beveridge, Julian R. Garrison, Abbey Greene, and Hannah MacDonald

Submissions from 2021

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Deep mapping for environmental communication design, Shannon Butts and Madison Jones

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A low-investment, high-impact approach for training stronger and more confident graduate student science writers, Caroline Gottschalk Druschke, Nancy E. Karraker, Scott R. McWilliams, Al Scott, Jenna Morton-Aiken, Nedra Reynolds, Elaine Finan, and Ingrid E. Lofgren

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Training Graduate Students in Multiple Genres of Public and Academic Science Writing: An Assessment Using an Adaptable, Interdisciplinary Rubric, Erin R. Harrington, Ingrid E. Lofgren, Caroline Gottschalk Druschke, Nancy E. Karraker, Nedra Reynolds, and Scott R. McWilliams

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A Counter-history of Rhetorical Ecologies, Madison Jones

Submissions from 2020

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An 'Ungentle' Punk: Revisiting Charles Lamb's Bookishness, Michael Robinson

Submissions from 2019

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Shirley Jackson’s “The Lottery” and Holocaust Literature, Michael Robinson

Submissions from 2018

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The Fallacies of Open: Participatory Design, Infrastructuring, and the Pursuit of Radical Possibility, Stephanie West-Puckett, Anna Smith, Christina Cantrill, and Mia Zamora

Submissions from 2016

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Why rhetoric matters for ecology, Caroline Gottschalk Druschke and Bridie McGreavy

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Berkelely Redux: Imagination as Ethical Power in Shelley's "Mont Blanc", Daniel E. Lees

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Remix as Professional Learning: Educators' Iterative Literacy Practice in CLMOOC, Anna Smith, Stephanie West-Puckett, Christina Cantrill, and Mia Zamora

Submissions from 2015

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Manager Perspectives on Communication and Public Engagement in Ecological Restoration Project Success, Caroline Gottschalk Druschke and Kristen C. Hychka

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An Examination of Growing Trends in Land Tenure and Conservation Practice Adoption: Results from a Farmer Survey in Iowa, Sarah Varble, Silvia Secchi, and Caroline Gottschalk Druschke

Submissions from 2014

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Interdisciplinary Writing Center Collaborations, J. C. Lee, Nancy Caronia, and Diane Quaglia Beltran

Submissions from 2013

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Being Sisyphus: The Mythological Basis for Connell's 'The Most Dangerous Game, Daniel E. Lees

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Writing With(out) Pain: Computing Injuries and the Role of the Body in Writing Activity, Kim Hensley Owens and Derek van Ittersum

Submissions from 2012

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Tracking the Mind’s Eye: A New Technology for Researching Twenty-First-Century Writing and Reading Processes, Chris M. Anson and Robert A. Schwegler

Submissions from 2011

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Mothers' Ways of Making It—or Making Do?: Making (Over) Academic Lives in Rhetoric and Composition with Children, Kim Hensley Owens, Christine Peters Cucciarre, Deborah E. Morris, Lee Nickoson, and Mary P. Sheridan