An academic journal dedicated to the range of professional practices associated with rhetoric and composition.
UMass Boston and U of Denver
Joined August 2013
- Tweets899
- Following301
- Followers2.5K
- Likes186
The editors' introduction to CS 53.2 considered calling itself an AI hallucination. It references Terminator 2, cites a McSweeney's satire, and catalogs every AI construct in science fiction.
Underneath the humor, it's doing something genuinely difficult. 🧵
23 contributors. 19 sections. 1 issue.
The table of contents for Composition Studies 53.2 is here.
Here's what's inside—and who made it. 🧵
Six book reviews covering AI and writing, feminist technical communication, systemic bias in STEM, critical language awareness, DJ rhetoric, and multimodal transfer.
Researched, drafted, reviewed, revised, edited, and published—by people who believe the field's questions matter.
Which piece are you starting with?
#CompositionStudies #RhetComp #WePersistAllTheSame
Issue 53.2 of @CompStudies is built around four tensions the field is sitting with right now. A thread. 🧵
04 — Composition as academic discipline / composition as political obligation.
Four scholars respond to what the field owes the present moment. They don't agree with each other.
These aren't four separate debates. They're a field reckoning with what comes next.
Six articles. Two course designs. Four field-level responses. Read the full issue at compstudiesjournal.com.
#CompositionStudies #RhetComp #WePersistAllTheSame
Every cover has a story.
Every issue of Composition Studies starts with a cover. This one started with a walk along the Kishwaukee River.
Meet Michael J. Day, the photographer behind 53.2's "Peekaboo Raccoon." 🧵
"I write with a loving respect and patience for words in the same way I slow down, watch and wait in a kind of sustained engagement with nature."
—Michael J. Day
Our editors see photography as a metaphor for composing—framing, organizing, attempting. Dozens of tries before the one that works.
What do you return to in your work—not because you have to, but because you're still looking?
#WePersistAllTheSame #CompositionStudies #RhetComp
Some big changes at Composition Studies. New submission policy: five-paragraph essays only. New section: Hot Takes. And a lifetime achievement award for Reviewer 2.
Happy April Fools.
53.2 is coming soon—peer review included.
#RhetComp #CompositionStudies
