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Volume 58, Summer 2026
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Volume 58, Summer 2026
The “Ideal” Job to Failure Pipeline: An Analysis of Technical and Professional Communication Job-Seeking Resources
Continue reading →: The “Ideal” Job to Failure Pipeline: An Analysis of Technical and Professional Communication Job-Seeking ResourcesMorgan Banville, Emily Gresbrink, Rachael Jordan, and Elena Kalodner-Martin Abstract This article examines risk, precarity, and safety within the technical and professional communication (TPC) academic job market. We unpack what constitutes implicit and explicit “success” and “failure” to guide graduate students preparing for primarily academic, as well as non-academic jobs…
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Volume 58, Summer 2026
Doing It Ourselves: Normalizing Failure and Risk Through (Self-)Publishing at Rowan University
Continue reading →: Doing It Ourselves: Normalizing Failure and Risk Through (Self-)Publishing at Rowan UniversityJason Luther, Casey Wang, Kelli Hughes, Matt Berrian, and Gianna Forgen Abstract Students in the Writing Arts Department at Rowan University have multiple opportunities to publish their writing and to facilitate the publishing of others. In this program profile, one faculty member and four former students describe how these opportunities…
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Volume 58, Summer 2026
A Phenomenology of Risk and Failure in Community-Based Learning Courses
Continue reading →: A Phenomenology of Risk and Failure in Community-Based Learning CoursesJessica Lauer and Janine Tobeck Abstract Community-based learning (CBL) and client-based projects are often promoted as high-impact pedagogical practices that foster rhetorical awareness, civic engagement, and professional readiness. This article examines how undergraduate students experience intellectual risk-taking and productive failure within CBL courses in a Professional Writing and Publishing program…
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Volume 58, Summer 2026
From Risk/Failure to Plural Productivities: A Justice-Centered Framework for Graduate Writing across Contexts
Continue reading →: From Risk/Failure to Plural Productivities: A Justice-Centered Framework for Graduate Writing across ContextsChimee Adịọha, Soyeon Lee, Hem Lal Pandey, María Perez-Piza, and David Tver Abstract Reconceptualizing the notions of risk and failure in graduate writing, this article suggests a justice-centered framework that can provide insights to graduate writers with ways of countering risk/failure-based models of graduate writing through “writing abundance” (Sano-Franchini, par.…
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Volume 58, Summer 2026
Inclusive Practices Pedagogy and Intellectual Risk-Taking: Supporting Graduate Writers Through Vulnerability
Continue reading →: Inclusive Practices Pedagogy and Intellectual Risk-Taking: Supporting Graduate Writers Through VulnerabilityA. Nicole Pfannenstiel and Leonora Foels Abstract This article draws from preliminary survey data and pedagogical reflection to showcase where attention to rhetorical vulnerability brings transparency to spaces graduate writers occupy as they engage intellectual risk-taking approaches across disciplines. We describe expanding inclusive practices to transparently discuss the importance of…
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Volume 58, Summer 2026
Re-Imagining Relationships: A Heuristic for Disrupting Vernaculars of Risk and Failure
Continue reading →: Re-Imagining Relationships: A Heuristic for Disrupting Vernaculars of Risk and FailureKellie Sharp-Hoskins and Kerry Banazek Abstract This article investigates teaching vernaculars that individualize and correlate risk and failure in the composition classroom, tacitly reducing systemic issues to those of individual choices and outcomes. Considering how these vernaculars emerge within programs and institutions—and the complex and varied perspectives and expertises that…
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Volume 58, Summer 2026
Directional Reflection: A 360-Degree Framework for Faculty Failure and Intellectual Risk
Continue reading →: Directional Reflection: A 360-Degree Framework for Faculty Failure and Intellectual RiskKara Taczak Abstract Failure is common in faculty life, yet faculty are rarely given intentionally structured opportunities to understand or move through the experience/s. This article offers directional reflection as a framework to engage failure without requiring it to be resolved. Drawing on student failure studies, intellectual risk scholarship, and…
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Volume 58, Summer 2026
A Non-Defense of Failure: A Pedagogy of Failure in situ
Continue reading →: A Non-Defense of Failure: A Pedagogy of Failure in situSam Phillips and Risa Applegarth Abstract Our essay offers a pedagogical approach to failure that treats failure as a situated phenomenon, lingering on failure’s affective and temporal dimensions. We first characterize two primary lines of defense that have appeared in writing studies scholarship over the past decade: a weak defense…
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