Dear Students,
We are pleased to announce the publication of our first three articles for “Student Voices,” a new initiative at Writing Commons that aims to provide a public form to celebrate outstanding undergraduate student writing.
“Student Voices” serves students and writing programs by providing a public forum for undergraduates to publish outstanding works of nonfiction, fiction, and multimedia. SuDetails below.
Our first three publications for Student Voices are two “Dear Professor” letters and one analytical article on the benefits of studying rhetoric as an undergraduate student:
- Navigating Teacher Feedback – A Student’s Perspective
- Neurodivergence, A Call for Openness to the Needs of Neurodivergent Students
- Why Study Rhetoric? – A Student’s Perspective
To be considered for publication, at the top of your page list your name and email, and the title of the course you took, course number, name of teacher, and email of teacher.
Topics are open: students may advocate for change in a teaching method or policy. For instance, they may suggest academic integrity and dishonesty polices given the emergence of AI. They may share insights they’ve gleaned about mindset, research, style, or writing processes. They may talk about their growth and labor as writers.
To increase the likelihood of having your work published at Writing Commons, we encourage you to
- review Academic Writing Style Guide
- ensure your work is responsive to the information literacy perspectives & practices of the academic writing community (AKA, academe)
- adopt an academic prose style or professional writing style, as appropriate given your topic and rhetorical situation
- ensure you attribute using sources using APA (see Publication Manual of the APA: 7th Edition).
Sincerely,
Cassandra Branham, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Director, Center for Communication and Digital Media
Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University
Cassandra.Branham@erau.edu
Megan McIntyre, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Director, Program in Rhetoric and Composition
University of Arkansas
mm250@uark.edu
References
Gladwell, M. (2008). Outliers: The story of success. Little, Brown and Company.
