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Welcome to WikiProject Writing. Several Wikipedians have formed this collaboration resource and group dedicated to improving Wikipedia's coverage of Writing and the organization of information and articles on this topic. This page and its subpages contain their suggestions and various resources; it is hoped that this project will help to focus the efforts of other Wikipedians interested in the topic. If you would like to help, please add yourself as a participant in the project, inquire on the talk page, and see the to-do list, below.

Goals

• We will explore and cite both canonical terms, concepts, and research, as well as scholarship and activism composed by marginalized teacher-scholars, when creating and improving Wikipedia articles.

Scope

WikiProject Writing is focused on developing content related to the fields of rhetoric, composition, technical communication, literacy, and language studies. In addition to increasing coverage about the teaching of writing as it pertains to all forms of communication, this project seeks to represent a full scope of content about these fields’ engagement with diversity, inclusion, and equity.

Open tasks

Article tagging and assessment

• Tag articles: Add the WikiProject Writing banner to the top of any article talk page that you believe to be related to the scope of this WikiProject. Use the tag {{WikiProject Writing}} or Rater to add the banner.

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• Assess article importance: Manually update the importance assessment parameter within the WikiProject Writing banner to reflect its importance relative to the stated goals of this WikiProject.
  • Top-importance article assessments should be reserved for those articles that are central to the field and/or enable the promotion of under-represented and/or marginalized scholars, topics, theories.
  • High-importance article assessments should be reserved for those articles that are central to the field.
  • Mid-importance article assessments should be reserved for those articles that are important but not central to the field.
  • Low-importance article assessments should be reserved for those articles that are less important to the field.

Articles needing edits

These articles have been identified as needing edits. Once edited, please remove from this list.

• Academic writing (underdeveloped, needs citation, narrativizing, not sophisticated in approach)
• Adult literacy (redirects to adult education with no mention of writing)
• Author (needs from perspective of teaching, student writer identity)
• Argument (extensive, but no mention of writing)
• Argumentation theory (extensive, but no mention of writing)
• Theodore Baird (only mentioned for his house designed by frank lloyd wright)
• Basic writing (extensive, but can use revision to meet Wikipedia standards
• James A. Berlin (lots of stuff listed, but almost no narrative
• Charles Bazerman (contributions not well elaborated, add 2018 NCTE James R. Squire Awardee)
• Patricia Bizzell (lots of stuff listed, but almost no narrative, add 2008 CCCC Exemplar Awardee)
• Cognitive rhetoric (short, only marginally relevant)
• Collaborative writing (from teaching point of view, underdeveloped)
• Composition (language) (underdeveloped)
• Composition studies (foregrounds grad programs--lot on l2 and multiculturalism, but just nubs on others. has a bit on centers also has links to be investigated--could use extensive work--place where we would not get much pushback).
• Conference on College Composition and Communication (limited, mostly a list of sites and official info)
• Bob Connors (we'll need a disambiguation page for this; following this link gets an amusing result. Who knew?)
• Copyright Clause (no discussion of intellectual property issues more generally)
• Edward P.J. Corbett (short, add 1996 CCCC Exemplar Awardee)
• Draft document (surprisingly high-traffic article that until recently was mostly concerned with Strunk & White v. Elbow. Contains promising bulleted list that can easily support refs to empirical articles)
• Dyslexia (does not consider implications for writing)
• Editing [no information on student/self-editing, editing process]
• Emergent literacy (needs work, this is also important for parents)
• Essay
• Foreign language writing aid (computer tools for writing development, from an FL perspective, extensive and curated, but could be linked to L1 correction, checking, advice tools, maybe a parallel entry with x-link)
• John Gerber (include 1974 NCTE James R. Square Awardee)
• Donald H. Graves (short, add 2008 NCTE James R. Squire Awardee)
• Handwriting (short, may be relevant for emergent literacy, early schooling)
• Susan Jarratt (short)
• Literacy (very extensive, well curated, but strong tendency to view literacy as reading, though perfunctory mention of writing. Teaching of literacy in particular is reading exclusive. We need to figure out how to make more symmetrical)
• Literature(could use some revision including consideration of intertextuality, citation and codification processes)
• Richard Lloyd-Jones (include 1991 CCCC Exemplar Awardee)
• Andrea Lunsford (short, add 1994 CCCC Exemplar Awardee)
• Manuscript (missing discussion of drafts)
• Miles Myers (short, add 2012 NCTE James R. Squire Awardee)
• National Writing Project (extensive, but needs more documentation)
• Orthography (could use something on learning to spell, differences in learning different languages, invented spelling; need to enlist early childhood specialist)
• Peer critique (short, could use much elaboration)
• Peer review (none on use in class/as pedagogical tool)
• Plagiarism (extensive, but no discussion of controversies, limitations of detection software, relation to intertextuality nor student learning trajectories of intertextual location and stance)
• Plagiarism detection (extensive, but no discussion of controversies, limitations of detection software, relation to intertextuality nor student learning trajectories of intertextual location and stance)
• Prewriting (Part of a whole cluster of "writing process" articles that assume stage-process model as gospel.)
• Professional communication (Needs work). Most users will probably be wanting an article more descriptive of communication in professional contexts; this appears to have been drafted as an explanation of the academic discipline of PTC.
• Reading and writing (extensive but mostly literacy/reading focused, needs more writing, contains nothing on the interaction of reading and writing in the production of texts, pedagogy that combines two, etc.)
• Reflective writing (short, strange)
• Revision (nothing on Revision in writing / writing revision)
• Geneva Smitherman (needs citations, add 1999 CCCC Exemplar Awardee, add 2005 NCTE James R. Squire Awardee)
• Teaching Writing in the United States (short to mid intro--ok as far as it goes. xrefs a number of approaches including WAC. Checked cross ref to WAC, where there is a very extensive, current, curated article--we should find out who is doing curating and coordinate with them)
• White papers (as government and business genre--have reviewed and expanded by business or tech writing person who may also have ideas for other genres)
• Word processing (material technology)
• Writer (long list of kinds of writers throughout history and society--promising as far as it goes, but does not deal with teaching issues or student identity as writer issues--should be reviewed and supplemented by someone for NWP perspective)
• Writer's block (mid-long, but mostly literary accounts, or creative writing advice, with just a bit from comp studies--certainly we should add more comp research)
• Writing (opening paragraph mostly OK now, but rest of article is preoccupied with history of writing systems)
• Writing center (substantial, but could be more, also does not seem current)
• Writing circle (short piece on writer's groups--this could be expanded by looking at grad writers groups/ published writers groups, also commercial support groups., also more engagement from creative writing community)
• Writing in space (mid-sized piece on kinds of pens that work in zero-gravity, material technology)
• Writing slate (material technology of slate and where used)
• Writing style (literary only, but has several subsections giving Strunk and White type advice on word choice, etc.)
• Writer's voice (subsection of Writing Style; literary only, 3 short paragraphs)
• Written Communication (journal) (short, no discussion of contribution)
• Kathleen Blake Yancey(mostly on leadership,list of books, short of analysis of contributions, ideas, add 2018 CCCC Exemplar Awardee, add 2019 NCTE James R. Squire Awardee)
• Art Young (include 2002 CCCC Exemplar Awardee)

Article requests

This is our wishlist of articles that don't yet exist. Please write one!

Once an article has been created, it will have a blue link and can be removed from this list.

• Linda Adler-Kassner (2017 CCCC Chair)
• Chris Anson (2013 CCCC Chair)
• Adam Banks (2015 CCCC Chair through 9/15)
• Ann E. Berthoff (include 1997 CCCC Exemplar Awardee)
• Rudine Sims Bishop (include 2013 NCTE James R. Square Awardee)
• Brain and writing
• Carolyn Calhoon-Dillahunt (2018 CCCC Chair)
• Joyce Carter (2016 CCCC Chair)
• Courtney Cazden (include 2004 NCTE James R. Square Awardee)
• Community writing (reference CCW and Community Writing Journal)
• Sharon Crowley (include 2015 CCCC Exemplar Awardee)
• Cultural rhetorics
• Current Traditionalist rhetoric
• Dartmouth Literacy Conference
• Dartmouth seminar
• Drafting (writing)
• Elementary writing
• Janet Emig (include 1992 CCCC Exemplar Awardee and 2006 NCTE James R. Square Awardee)
• Edmund J. Farrell (include 1999 NCTE James R. Square Awardee)
• Feedback or response to writing
• Gender and writing
• John Franklin Genung
• Yetta M. Goodman (include 2014 NCTE James R. Square Awardee)
• Angela Haas
• Jerome C. Harste (include 2016 NCTE James R. Square Awardee)
• Muriel Harris (include 2000 CCCC Exemplar Awardee)
• Gail E. Hawisher (include 2014 CCCC Exemplar Awardee)
• Robert F. Hogan (include 1980 NCTE James R. Square Awardee)
• J. N. Hook (include 1971 NCTE James R. Square Awardee)
• Winifred Bryan Horner (include 2003 CCCC Exemplar Awardee)
• Asao B. Inoue (2019 CCCC Chair)
• International Society for the Advancement of Writing Studies
• Journal of Writing Research
• Janice Lauer (include 1998 CCCC Exemplar Awardee)
• Lifespan development of writing (only general lifespan articles)
• Literacy narrative
• Erika Lindemann (include 2005 CCCC Exemplar Awardee)
• Multilingual writing
• Richard Ohmann (include 1993 CCCC Exemplar Awardee)
• Sondra Perl (include 2016 CCCC Exemplar Awardee)
• Gwendolyn D. Pough (2011 CCCC Chair)
• Malea Powell (2012 CCCC Chair)
• Preschool writing
• Research methodologies in rhetoric and composition
• Rhetorical code studies
• Jacqueline Jones Royster (include 2004 CCCC Exemplar Awardee)
• Secondary writing
• Cynthia L. Selfe (include 2014 CCCC Exemplar Awardee)
• SIG Writing
• Speech and Writing or Speaking and writing
• James R. Squire (include 1967 NCTE James R. Square Awardee)
• Strategy instruction (nothing for general strategy instruction and nothing for SI in writing)
• Transfer_(rhetoric)
• Lynn Quitman Troyka (include 2001 CCCC Exemplar Awardee)
• Marilyn Valentino (2010 CCCC Chair)
• Victor Villanueva (he is mentioned briefly in Bootstraps: From an American Academic of Color, include 2009 CCCC Exemplar Awardee)
• Edward M. White (include 2011 CCCC Exemplar Awardee)
• Kent D. Williamson (include 2015 NCTE James R. Square Awardee)
• W. Ross Winterowd (include 2010 CCCC Exemplar Awardee)
• Writing analytics
• Writing in childhood
• Writing programs
• Writing program administration
• Writing studies
• Writing to learn
• Vershawn Ashanti Young (2020 CCCC Chair)

Article alerts

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Participants

Please add yourself and indicate any areas of particular interest.

Copy and paste this format and only change what is within the (parentheses):

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1. FULBERT (talk) (I am interested in working on the creation of this WikiProject to promote knowledge equity in writing studies) 00:48, 13 October 2020 (UTC)
2. Drkill (talk) (I am interested in getting this WikiProject up and running) 01:15, 13 October 2020 (UTC)
3. Rhetorica19 (talk) (I am interested in working on global rhetorical topics, and topics that highlight the influence of women pedagogues on and within the profession in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.) 02:24, 21 October 2020 (UTC)
4. Compositionist (talk) (I am broadly interested in strengthening the presence of *our* research in existing articles, as well as better aligning our articles with comparatively well-developed articles in linguistics.)15:22, 6 November 2020 (UTC)
5. Dr. Vetter (talk) 16:22, 6 November 2020 (UTC) I would like to begin gathering reference sources in rhetoric, composition, and writing studies (handbooks, specialized encyclopedias, etc.) in order to make broader contributions to a number of articles. But I am happy to work on specific articles that are tagged as high importance.
6. s2ceball (talk) I will be working on digital rhetoric topics and trying to recruit other authors for needed topics/pages.

Methodical (I will be supporting the work of various groups as they contribute to this collective effort ) 19:53, 21 December 2020 (UTC)

Review and assessment

This is the current state of articles of interest to WikiProject Writing:

Writing articles by quality and importance
Quality	Importance
	Top	High	Mid	Low	NA	???	Total
FA	1						1
GA	1		1	3			5
B	7	8	17	31		9	72
C	11	18	52	156		43	280
Start	1	6	25	239		65	336
Stub		2	12	88		30	132
List		1	1	6		2	10
Category					192		192
Disambig					1		1
File					1		1
Project					6		6
Template					23		23
NA				1	14		15
Other					239		239
Assessed	21	35	108	524	476	149	1,313
Unassessed				1		18	19
Total	21	35	108	525	476	167	1,332

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Popular pages

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Categories

These are some categories of Writing articles that may be of interest to some members of our WikiProject. To add any articles within these categories to our project, add the WikiProject:Writing banner to the top of the article's Talk page.

Templates

WikiProject Writing banner

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General participant invitation

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WikiProject Writing is looking for editors to help develop content related to the field of Writing on Wikipedia, including rhetoric, composition, technical communication, literacy, and language studies. Perhaps you want to help? If so, please add your name to the list here or visit the project page for more information. Thanks! Click here to visit the project page

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Hello, WikiProject Writing! WikiProject Writing is looking for editors to help build and maintain comprehensive, informative, balanced articles on Wikipedia related to the fields of rhetoric, composition, technical communication, literacy, and language studies. As a current or past participant in the CCCC Wikipedia Initiative, we hope that you will join and help to shape this new WikiProject. Thanks! Click here to visit the project page Resources Related WikiProjects WikiProject Education WikiProject Writing systems WikiProject Linguistics