cultivating


Write@UNG Series



Dr. Michael Rifenburg
Department of English
CTLL Faculty Fellow for Scholarly Writing
 @jmrifenburg

Premise

Despite teaching, serving, parenting, partnering, life-ing,
(sustained) research trajectory is possible b/c...

  • We already  have a lot of text
  • Scholarship of Teaching and Learning
  • Funneling system

we already have lots of text


"Many believe that in order to be published they must start from scratch. Nothing will do but to begin a brand new article on a brave new topic. This is not true."


--Wendy Laura Belcher, Writing Your Journal Article in 12 Weeks

What we have


lecture notes (as a student / as a professor)
conference presentations
graduate papers
thesis
dissertation
rejected articles
journal musings
marginalia on scholarly literature
blog posts
social media posts / tweets / updates

belcher questions


do any of your texts contain an original insight that could carry an entire article?

did you receive any helpful feedback on a conference presentation? (presentations should lead to articles)

what parts of your thesis / dissertation could be published?

received any revise and resubmits? received any rejections?

Belcher questions


are there texts you enjoyed writing or researching and that you still look back on with gratification?

do any of your texts address some aspect of a current debate in your discipline?

are any of your texts particularly well researched?

do any of your texts have a particularly strong or unusual finding?

challenging pieces to cultivate

Broad surveys/ lit reviews
Purely theoretical
Dated research (read your journals!)
Outside your discipline
Polemics
Too similar (read your journals!)
Too introductory or descriptive

--from Belcher

me?


since 2013, 
2 book contracts
8 referred publications
4 national conference talks
3 forthcoming / accepted pending revisions pubs

all have similar reference page

for example

from my SoTL Army writing ms

Adler-Kassner, L., Majeksi, J., & Koshnick, D. (2012). 

Anson, C. (2016). 

Anson, C., & Neely, S. (2010).  

Beaufort, A. (2007).

Bergmann, L.S., & Zepernick, J. (2007). 

Berlin, J. A. (1987). 

Bizzell, P. (2014). 

Chick, N. (2014). 

5 of these first 8 references are in my book on student-athletes

soTL

If it's valued...

Merge teaching and research

How can the classroom inform your research? How can you bring your research to the classroom?


SoTL references


USG Teaching & Learning Conference, April 2017
International Society for Scholarship of Teaching and Learning
Teaching & Learning Inquiry
UNG' CTLL SoTL faculty academy

Funneling

connect research, service, and teaching

funneling


find a theory, pedagogy, noun, verb, concept

that runs through your research, teaching, and service

I teach writing classes, I research how to better teach student-athlete writers, I serve on committees that guide English 1101 / 1102 curricula

...


What is your anchor?

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