Cynthia Nwakudu
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Cynthia Nwakudu expands on elements of writing research from Dr. Joyce R. Walker to focus on the people at the center of a writing research model: writers. Through drawings and maps, Nwakudu and Walker visualize the complex stories about writing research and how writers envision our writing research identities.
The Anon
Fanfiction, the Final Frontier: Writing a "Star Trek" Fic
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The Anon unpacks the process of writing one of her “Star Trek” fanfictions. She briefly outlines the history and context of fanfiction before explaining some of the many processes and tools that go into planning, writing, revising, and publishing a fanfiction.
Barbara Kuznetsova
Documenting Literate Activity: Writing a (Scrap)book
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In this Documenting Literate Activity piece, Barbara Kuznetsova describes how she uses scrapbooking as a tool for creative writing. In doing so, Kuznetsova illustrates how complex writing can be and the multimodality of scrapbooking as a literate activity to work toward her writing goals.
Kristy Hume
Going the Distance: Literacies and Practices in Training for the Disney Marathon
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In this Graphic Short, Maddie Silk describes their experience with academic language, and how college has changed their perception of what it means to use such language.
Luke Robinson
Reading the Game: Baseball Jerseys as Literate Activity
Luke Robinson analyzes the genre of baseball jerseys, which might seem straightforward but is actually very complex. Robinson explores how the conventions of the designs of the jerseys and the teams and/or players they represent affect reading baseball jerseys as a literate activity.
Zachary (Zac) Redfield
Life-Making: The Writing That Built Me
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Zac Redfield explores the personal and reflective practice of collecting quotes as a form of literate activity. By tracing how this practice intersects with shifting personal and social identities, Redfield illustrates how writing can be both a tool for understanding and a site of ongoing identity construction.
Maddie Silk
Drawing and Redrawing: A Literate Activity
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Maddie Silk traces her literate activity journey in drawing as she looks through her old art and considers the tools, people, situations, and motivations that shaped her drawing trajectory.
Katie Kramer
A Newfound Friendship with Blank Pages: Music Journaling and Beyond
Katie Kramer walks readers through journaling as a hobby and as a literate activity, where a small idea grew into a sophisticated monthly journal process designed to document the music she enjoys.
Isley Oxborrow
Sheet Music: The Genre That Brings Music to Life
In this GWRJ Genre Spotlight, Isley Oxborrow dives into the genre of sheet music. Dissecting its conventions, Oxborrow shows that sheet music is a genre with layers of complication and lots to be found within it.
Md. Didar Hossain
Let’s Have a Barbecue Party! The Barbecue as a Cultural Activity System
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Didar Hossain examines American barbecue cookouts as a cultural activity system that fosters socialization, community building, and cultural exchange. Through personal experiences, Hossain explores how the shared rituals of barbecuing—such as planning, cooking, and communal dining—create opportunities for meaningful connections and bridge diverse backgrounds by blending traditions in a welcoming environment.
Kylee Auten
Texting Ranger: Writing Activity, Antecedent Knowledge, and Socialization
Kylee Auten looks at her texting conversations with her dad to understand how regularly
engaging in writing activities, like texting, builds and relies on antecedent knowledge. Auten concludes by thinking about how viewing texting as a complex writing activity is a good reminder about the socialization of writing.
Juliana Sergio
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In this Picturing Literate Activity piece, Juliana Sergio shares her process of creating a research space that is also a comfortable and inviting sanctuary.
Nowrin Akther Koly
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In this Picturing Literate Activity piece, Nowrin Koly captures the warmth of her writing corner: a place that offers permission to be imperfect and to embody her writer self.
Janine Blue
When Representation Becomes Remembrance
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Janine Blue writes about the profound work of composing her father’s obituary, a task that transcended mere documentation of a life. She delves into the emotional, social, and practical labor of shaping language during grief, where each draft is an act of love, and a form of representation. Using P-CHAT, she explores how the layered dynamics of writing created a living artifact that continues to reach back across time.