2024 has nearly slipped by, yet it is worth noting two recent open access publications, one in which I served as a co-editor and co-author, and another in which I served as a co-author.

Better Practices: Exploring the Teaching of Writing in Online and Hybrid Spaces

Earlier this year, the WAC Clearinghouse released Better Practices: Exploring the Teaching of Writing in Online and Hybrid Spaces, co-edited with Amy Cicchino. From the book’s description:

Featuring a range of better practices related to online writing instruction (OWI) and assessment, this edited collection offers instructors and writing program administrators theoretically grounded approaches from teacher-scholars of online writing. First, the contributors highlight what instructors have been doing in online and hybrid writing classrooms, pointing to innovative theoretical trends in the scholarship of online writing studies and related position statements. Second, they provide access to instructional materials that can be immediately adapted for local contexts, offering a starting point for enacting better practices in OWI. Third, they offer writing program administrators useful perspectives on professional development and curriculum design. Better Practices expands the conversation about online learning and writing studies, providing an opening for educators to come together to explore what it means to teach writing in ways that involve online real-time, online anytime, and hybrid writing courses.

In the book, I co-authored this chapter with a CMU doctoral student: Contreras, A., & Hicks, T. (2024). Annotation and rhetorical analysis with discussions hosted in Flip. In A. Cicchino & T. Hicks (Eds.), Better practices: Exploring the teaching of writing in online and hybrid spaces (pp. 119–138). The WAC Clearinghouse; University Press of Colorado.

Then, earlier this month, my co-authored, openly-available chapter, “The Importance of Digital Media Literacy” was released:

Turner, K. H., Eisenstock, B., Hicks, T., Jolls, T., O’Byrne, W. I., Paciga, K. A., Price-Dennis, D., & Hagerman, M. S. (2025). The Importance of Digital Media Literacy. In D. A. Christakis & L. Hale (Eds.), Handbook of Children and Screens: Digital Media, Development, and Well-Being from Birth Through Adolescence (pp. 541–548). Springer Nature Switzerland. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-69362-5_74

There were a few other publications in 2024, but they are not available openly, so I will provide a link to my Google Scholar Profile here. As I continue to think more about the ways that teachers and students are becoming acquainted with and being invited to use AI, I look forward to publishing a co-authored book on that topic in the near future.

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