Amplifying Soundwriting Pedagogies: Integrating Sound into Rhetoric and Writing
Edited by Michael J. Faris, Courtney S. Danforth, and Kyle D. Stedman
Copy edited by Tony Magialetti. Designed by Mike Palmquist.
While sonic rhetoric is still a growing subfield of writing studies, attention to pedagogy remains an underattended but increasingly important conversation. Amplifying Soundwriting Pedagogies addresses this gap by offering a broad range of assignments to support university instructors who seek to integrate the use of digital audio into their writing and rhetoric curricula. Each of the 25 chapters in this edited collection provides a written introduction to an adaptable soundwriting activity or sequence of assignments; a transcribed audio reflection from the instructor discussing the assignment’s purpose, strengths, and weaknesses; student-oriented documents such as assignment prompts, and rubrics) that readers can adapt in their own teaching; and examples of student work (audio with transcriptions) hosted on the book’s website.
Michael J. Faris is Associate Professor of Technical Communication and Rhetoric in the English department at Texas Tech University. His research areas are in digital literacies and rhetorics, queer rhetorics, and writing program administration. His work has appeared in College Composition and Communication, Kairos: A Journal of Rhetoric, Technology, and Pedagogy, Journal of Business and Technical Communication, Composition Forum, Peitho, and WPA: Writing Program Administration.
Courtney S. Danforth (she/her) teaches courses in writing and humanities, including first-year composition, creative nonfiction, poetry, and ancient literature, among other areas.
Kyle D. Stedman (he/him) is Associate Professor of English at Rockford University, where he teaches composition, rhetoric, and creative writing courses. His sonic and written work has been published in the journals Technoculture, Composition Forum, Harlot, Memoir Magazine, and Computers and Composition, as well as several edited collections. His podcasts are Plugs, Play, Pedagogy and the audio version of Bad Ideas about Writing (edited by Cheryl E. Ball and Drew M. Loewe, West Virginia University Libraries, 2017). He also co-authored the textbook Soundwriting: A Guide to Making Audio Projects with Tanya K. Rodrigue (Broadview Press, 2023).
Publication Information:
Faris, Michael J., Courtney S. Danforth, & Kyle D. Stedman (Eds.). (2022). Amplifying Soundwriting Pedagogies: Integrating Sound into Rhetoric and Writing. The WAC Clearinghouse; University Press of Colorado. https://doi.org/10.37514/PRA-B.2022.1688
Series Editors: Aimee McClure, Clarke University; Mike Palmquist, Colorado State University; Aleashia Walton, University of Cincinnati Associate Editor: Jagadish Paudel, University of Texas at El Paso
This book is available in whole and in part in Adobe’s Portable Document Format (PDF). It is also available in a low-cost print edition from our publishing partner, the University Press of Colorado.
While sonic rhetoric is still a growing subfield of writing studies, attention to pedagogy remains an underattended but increasingly important conversation. Amplifying Soundwriting Pedagogies addresses this gap by offering a broad range of assignments to support university instructors who seek to integrate the use of digital audio into their writing and rhetoric curricula. Each of the 25 chapters in this edited collection provides a written introduction to an adaptable soundwriting activity or sequence of assignments; a transcribed audio reflection from the instructor discussing the assignment’s purpose, strengths, and weaknesses; student-oriented documents such as assignment prompts, and rubrics) that readers can adapt in their own teaching; and examples of student work (audio with transcriptions) hosted on the book’s website.
