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Call for Papers
Deadline for full submissions is October 1, 2005
(**see note below about possible extended deadline for digital-only
texts)
Computers and Composition: An International Journal
invites contributions for a special issue
Sounds in/as Compositional Spaces:
A Next Step Toward Multiliteracies
Guest-edited by Cheryl E. Ball and Byron Hawk
With the increased interest in multimodal issues within
computers-and-composition studies, there has been a surprising lack of
scholarship on sound (oral and aural). Compositionists have
transitioned from rhetorics of written text to visual and digital
rhetorics, but the move to a rhetoric of sound has yet to occur. With
more teachers and students creating digitally distributed, multimodal
texts and texts that break away from the traditional, written
essay-texts that contain oral elements along with or instead of
alphabetic, visual, and animated ones, a pedagogy of multiliteracies
can be made stronger by paying attention to sound. In this special
issue of Computers and Composition (to be published in March 2007), the
editors hope to bring together articles that address cultural,
pedagogical, and technological aspects of sound, creating a variety of
connections among literacy, teaching, and technology, including new
media. Cross-publication of articles with digital elements in Computers
and Composition Online <http://www.bgsu.edu/cconline> is also a feature
of this issue. The guest editors are particularly interested in
articles that address how sound is composed in/as new media texts, and
also invite written and electronic submissions from a wide range of
topics and perspectives, including a variety of classroom, scholarly,
or corporate settings. Suggested topics include, but are not limited
to:
• Rhetorical approaches to teaching from/with songs or sound in English
studies
classrooms
• Incorporating (a rhetoric of) sound into a general education
curriculum
• Pedagogies of sound design/production (including, perhaps,
discussions of software and
hardware issues)
• Analyses of sonic elements in texts useful to English studies
• Sound and music in multimedia and new media texts and gaming
environments
• Ways in which sound-as-text can cross
practical/theoretical/technical/artistic boundaries
• Issues of access to sound production equipment
• Issues of producing scholarship in and about sound
• Using/composing songs or lyrics as a creative or analytical assignment
• Using sound in distance education classes (i.e., streaming, etc.)
• Potential goals and/or outcomes of incorporating sound into a
general-education or upper-level curriculum
• Assessment issues in regards to sound-related assignments
• Notions of identity-(un)marking through sound
• Teaching and learning aurally/orally with basic writers or ESL
students
• Digital versus analog production of sound for teaching applications
• Bibliographies or histories of sound scholarship in English studies
The audience for Computers and Composition is teachers, scholars,
administrators, and technology users, all of whom have a particular
interest in computer-enhanced writing instruction. While the guest
editors are primarily interested in how sound interacts with computers
in classroom settings, they are also interested in submissions that
might show the Computers and Composition audience a varied perspective
about sound without using computers. In addition, the guest editors are
interested in practical and theoretical submissions about sound, as
well as electronic submissions that might exemplify how sound can be
used in English studies (such as sound documentaries, etc.).
Manuscripts should be 15-30 pages in length, double-spaced, and follow
the revised APA guidelines (5th edition).
Deadline for submissions is October 1, 2005. ***If you are working on a
digital submission (to be published in the corresponding C&C Online
issue), this deadline may be able to be extended. Please contact the
guest editors.***
Queries and abstracts are welcome before the deadline. For inquiries,
please correspond with Cheryl Ball <[log in to unmask]> or Byron
Hawk <[log in to unmask]>. Please send manuscripts (by mail or email) to:
Cheryl E. Ball
C&C Sound Issue
Department of English
3200 Old Main Hill
Utah State University
Logan, UT 84322-3200
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Asst. Professor of Computers & Writing
Utah State University, Logan, UT 84322
& Kairos CoverWeb Co-Editor
<http://english.ttu.edu/kairos>
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