Composition Studies 53.1 (Spring 2025)

<p>The oldest independent periodical in the field <strong>COMPOSITION STUDIES</strong> publishes original articles relevant to rhetoric and composition including those that address teaching college writing; theorizing rhetoric and composing; administering writing programs; and among other topics preparing the field's future teacher-scholars. All perspectives and topics of general interest to the profession are welcome. We also publish Course Designs which contextualize theorize and reflect on the content and pedagogy of a course. Contributions to Composing With are invited by the editor though queries are welcome.</p><p></p><p><strong>CONTENTS OF COMPOSITION STUDIES 53.1 (Spring 2025)</strong>: Editorial Introduction: Charting Our Course Here and Forward by Zachary Beare and Jacob Babb | <strong>AT A GLANCE</strong>: New Methodologies for Researching Reflection: Reflection-in-Motion in the Writing Classroom by Jaclyn Fiscus-Cannaday | <strong>ARTICLES</strong>: Risk-Taking in Labor-Based Grading Contracts for Collaborative Multimodal Composing by Daniel Libertz | Grading Contracts and the Behavioral Commonplaces of Composition Pedagogy by Mathew Gomes | Aligning with and through Difference: Tracing the Thingifications of a Multi-Campus Outcomes Statement by Jessica Ouellette and Ryan Dippre | Through Thick and through Thin: Domains of and Tensions surrounding Expertise in a Subset of Writing Studies Scholarship by James P. Purdy | The Eco-Cosmopolitan Campus: Expanding Place-Based Writing Instruction through Ecocomposition by Luke Rodewald |<strong> COURSE DESIGNS</strong>: The ACT Model in First-Year Writing: Neuroplasticity and Student Well-Being Post-COVID by Casie J. Fedukovich and Brooke Mulhollem | ENGL 111L: Grammar and Writing Workshop by Megan J. Busch | WRIT 400: Writing for Nonprofits by Meghan A. Sweeney | <strong>WHERE WE ARE: THE PRESENT AND FUTURE OF ACADEMIC CONFERENCES</strong>: Nimble and Sustainable: The Future of Feminisms and Rhetoric and Coalitional Conferences by Cristy Beemer and Rebecca S. Richards | Reimagining Academic Conferences and Professional Volunteerism in a World of Academic Precarity by Genie Nicole Giaimo | What's the Future for Academic Conferences? What Should Be Their Future? by Kofi J. Adisa and Frankie Condon | Cohesion Community and Belonging: The Emergence of the TYCA National Conference as an Open-Access Advocacy Space by Joanne Baird Giordano and Charissa Che | Living Our Principles: Designing an Accessible and Inclusive Virtual Conference by Theresa Evans Kevin E. DePew Amy Cicchino and Cat Maherty | Retracing Our (Mis)steps: The Purpose and Value of Our CWPA Conference by Erin Lehman Kelly Blewett Callie F. Kostelich Amanda Presswood and Mary Lourdes Silva | Unintended Benefits: Conference Through and Beyond the COVID-19 Pandemic by Caleb González Annie Halseth Jesse McLain and Mike Palmquist | Reflexivity Accountability Relationships: Conferencing through the Lens of Watson 2021 and 2024 by Andrea Olinger Shayani Almeida and Steve Shoop | <strong>BOOK REVIEWS</strong>: The Black Box: Writing the Race by Henry Louis Gates Jr. reviewed by Kimberly A. Bain | Sanctuary: Exclusion Violence and Indigenous Migrants in the East Bay by Cruz Medina reviewed by Katie Silvester | The New Work of Writing Across the Curriculum: Diversity and Inclusion Collaborative Partnerships and Faculty Development by Staci M. Perryman-Clark reviewed by Gideon Kwashie Kwawukumey | Rhetoric and Guns edited by Lydia Wilkes Nate Kreuter and Ryan Skinnell reviewed by Sean Murray | 2024 REVIEWERS</p><p></p>