Full Description
Reimagining Graduate Education in Writing Studies explores the development of sustainable, equitable, and interdisciplinary graduate programs within Writing Studies.
Proposing five key benchmarks of sustainability in graduate education - accessibility, diversity, interdisciplinary design, situatedness, and professionalization - each chapter speaks to one or more of these benchmarks, offering solutions grounded in both theory and empirical data. The contributors use ethnographic, narrative, and research-informed approaches to provide readers with innovative ways to address the pressing challenges of graduate education in Writing Studies. The central theme of sustainability, defined in this context as the ability to create adaptable, equitable, and resilient programs in response to institutional and economic challenges, runs through each chapter, and the volume provides actionable frameworks for fostering sustainability in Writing Studies graduate education by offering practical, research-based strategies.
Bringing together diverse perspectives from Rhetoric and Composition, TESOL, Linguistics, English Education, Technical Communication, and Writing Centers, this book will appeal to instructors, students, and researchers working in these areas.
Contents
Foreword. From Emig to Equity: The Continued Need for Graduate Student Support
Introduction. Interdisciplinary, Sustainable, and Kind: Writing Studies Graduate Education
1. Using an Ecological Approach to Advance Writing Support at the Graduate Level
2. Evolving Writing Supports to Sustain All Graduate Students
3. Revisiting Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Belonging (DEIB) Work for Sustainable Graduate Education: Reflections of Two Doctoral Students and One Teacher Educator
4. Preparing Literacy Educators for Flexible, Equitable, and Inclusive Open-Access Teaching
5. Creating Collaborative Conditions: The Intersections of Program Administration, Course Design, and Critical Friendship
6. Moving Beyond the One-Shot by Engaging Graduate Student Instructors with Information Literacy Instruction
7. Feminist Mentoring of Graduate Instructors Through a First-Year Writing Lecture-Discussion Model
8. Graduate Education for Basic Writing WPAs: Navigating Trauma-Informed Approaches to Cognition and Carework
9. Professionalization and Mentorship: Snapshots from In-Service Graduate Teaching Assistants
10. Methods in Dialogue
11. Sustainability of Research Network Forum Introductions: Graduate Students, Mentoring, and the Creation of Scholarship Pre- and Post-COVID
12. Pausing to Re-learn: Sharing Messes to Sustain Ourselves in a Demanding Profession
Afterword. LLMs in Support of Sustainable Graduate Education
Index
