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
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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