New Students - Recent Student Publications
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In addition to regular coursework and teaching commitments, R&W students continue to be quite prolific, presenting at a wide variety of conferences and publishing their work in many areas. Below is a full listing of recent student publications.

Jen Amjeld
“Modern Places of Production: Blogs as Academic Storehouses and Factories.” Popular Culture Association, Albuquerque, NM (February 2006).
“Making Blogs Produce.” Computers and Composition Online. Spring 2006.
“Research in New Media: Ethical Considerations for Removed Subjects” (co-authored with Sergey Rybas). 2nd International Congress of Qualitative Inquiry, Urbana-Champaign, IL (May 2006).
“ Scrapbooking: Shaping Lives and Selves.” Thomas R. Watson Conference on Rhetoric and Composition, Louisville, KY (October 2006).
“Reconceptualizing the Subject: Ethics, Subjects and the Possibility of Constructing Identity Through Online Discourse” (co-authored with Sergey Rybas) has been accepted for presentation at the 2007 CCCC meeting in New York City.

Stephanie Anderson
“The Language Arts Project: Doing Oral History in the English Classroom.” Bergamo Conference, University of Dayton (October 2006).

Florence Bacabac
“Using Technology-Based Mini-Lessons in the ESL Classroom: An Experimental Research Design.” 5th Symposium on Second Language Writing, West Lafayette, IN (June 2006).
“Discourse Mediation through Narratives: Exploring Possibilities in Advanced Composition Classrooms." Thomas R. Watson Conference on Rhetoric and Composition, Louisville, KY (October 2006).
“ Technology-Based Grammar Mini-Lesson for ESL Composition Classes: A New Beginning.” National Council of Teachers of English, Nashville, TN (November 2006).
“Utilizing Descriptive Video Service (DVS) Media in the ESL Classroom,”
co-authored with Dr. Sheri Wells-Jensen and Mary Clancy, Essential Teacher, TESOL International, forthcoming.

Chris Denecker
“ So you want to be and English Teacher?: Technology, Literacy, and Language Arts” to be published in CEA Forum (Winter 2006-2007).
"Techonology and Training in Language Arts for Novice and Veteran Teachers." College English Association of Ohio - Fall Conference. Bowling Green, OH (October 2006).
"So you Want to Be an English Teacher? Technology, Identity, and Teacher Preparation in the 21st Century" has been accepted for presentation at the 2007 CCCC meeting in New York City.

Elizabeth Fleitz
“ Profits over Process: AP English and the Decline of Freshman Composition.” CEA Forum, forthcoming Winter 2007.

Meredith Graupner
“ LOL (Learning On Line): Real Time Virtual Conferencing.” College English Association of Ohio - Fall Conference. Bowling Green, OH (October 2006).

Abbey Kanzig
“Forced to Fornicate: The Social Subjugation of the Eighteenth-Century Female.” Michigan Academy of Science, Arts, and Letters (March 2006).
”Painful Revelations: When Students Write for Catharsis.” College English Association of Ohio Spring Meeting. Columbus, OH (April 2006).
”Licentious Ladies of London: Patriarchal Power and the Ruin of Eighteenth-Century Women.” College English Association of Ohio - Spring Meeting, (April 2006).

Erin Laverick
"Feminist Pedagogies and Spaces in L2 Composition Classrooms." SLW (Second Language Writing) Newsletter (Fall 2006).
"Merging Spaces in the L2 Composition Classroom" has been accepted for presentation at the 2007 CCCC meeting in New York City.

Robin Murphy
“Chaos: An e-Interview with Johndan Johnson-Eilola.” Computers and Composition Online. Spring 2006.
“‘ S(ure)hirley’ You Jest!: Furthering Women’s Humor in the Rhetorical Tradition.” Rhetoric Society of America, Memphis, TN (May 2006).
Robin is also the Professional Development section editor for Computers and Composition Online.

Heather Pristash
"Craftivism and Protest Knitting." 1st North American Conference on Radicalism, Michigan State University, Lansing, MI (Spring 2006).

Sergey Rybas
“Toward a Practical Objective-Driven Blog: A Case Study.” 27th Annual Meeting of the Southwest/Texas Popular Culture Association and American Culture Association, Albuquerque, NM (February 2006).
“Good and Usable for All? Consideration of Usability of an Online Tutorial for Diverse Audiences.” Association of Teachers of Technical Writing Conference - Teaching Division, Chicago, IL (March 2006).
“Research in New Media: Ethical Considerations for Removed Subjects.” (Co-authored with Jen Almjeld). 2nd International Congress of Qualitative Inquiry, Urbana-Champaign, IL (May 2006).
“Reclaiming the Personal: Bringing Blogs to a Hybrid Composition Class.” Watson Conference, University of Louisville, Louisville, KY (October 2006).
“Does It Take a Class Design to Rock: The Dreams, the Perils, and the Available Means for effective Pedagogies in Computer-Supported Composition Classrooms.” College English Association of Ohio - Fall Conference (October 2006).
“Reconceptualizing the Subject: Ethics, Subjects and the Possibility of Constructing Identity Through Online Discourse” (co-authored with Jen Almjeld) has been accepted for presentation at the 2007 CCCC meeting in New York City.

James Schirmer
“ Why Do They Call Me Mr. Happy?: Defining and Differing Identity Online.” 27th Annual Meeting of the Southwest/Texas Popular Culture Association & American Culture Association, Albuquerque, NM (February 2006).
Review of Technology and English Studies. Eds. James Inman and Beth L. Hewett. Computers and Composition Online. Spring 2006.
“The Personal as Public: Identity Construction / Fragmentation Online.” The Computer Culture Reader. Eds. Judd Ruggill, Ken McAllister and Joseph R. Chaney. Cambridge Scholars Press, forthcoming.

Yvonne Schultz
Review of The Garden at Night: Burnout & Breakdown in the Teaching Life. CEA Forum. Winter/Spring 2006.
“Finding Funky Faith: Using Anne Lamott’s Narratives to Help Students Craft Their Own Spiritual Journeys.” Conference on Christianity and Literature - Mideast Region. Cedarville University, Cedarville, OH (Spring 2006).

Bethany Snyder-Morse
"Creating and Preserving the Past Through Narrative." College English Association of Ohio - Spring Meeting, Columbus, OH (April 2006).
“Narrative and Place.” National Council of Teachers of English, Nashville, TN (November 2006).
“Re-envisioning Re-vision.” 23rd National Conference on Peer Tutoring in Writing, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI (November 2006).

Eric Stalions
"Dynamic Criteria Mapping in Action: Growing Evaluative Community Locally and Organically," a co-presentation with Bob Broad, has been accepted for the 2007 CCCC meeting in New York City.
Eric is collaborating with Broad and others on a book concerning local applications of Broad's Dynamic Criteria Mapping approach to assessment.
Eric is also the Reviews section editor for Computers and Composition Online.

Angela Zimman
“A Positive Revolt: Pirates in the Pulpit and the Classroom” has been accepted for presentation at the 2007 CCCC meeting in New York City.