Author: Marie Pruitt

We are excited to share that the DRC has recently updated its Syllabus Repository with syllabi on writing with data for composition, digital rhetoric, and technical and professional communication classes! This is a great collection of resources for educators looking to integrate data writing into their classes. The included syllabi feature units and assignments that encourage students to write with and about data in the context of sports writing, data literacy, scientific and technical writing, professional writing, and writing for social change. You can access all the syllabi at this link: https://www.digitalrhetoriccollaborative.org/syllabus/writing-with-data/ Please share widely! All materials are freely available…

Bathroom graffiti. Podcasts. Skibibi brain rot. Social media activism. Deepfakes. Collages. J.D. Vance Photoshop memes. In this blog carnival, the contributing authors used these ideas to explore the role of circulation in rhetoric and writing studies.  Some authors used the framework of circulation to explore how specific artifacts or ideas circulate through different systems. For example, Alexandra Gunnells, in “Digital Circulation and the Question of Publics,” examines how digital media circulates and constitutes collective identities. Similarly concerned with the influences of digital media on culture and identity, in “The SEO to Skibidi Pipeline,” Sophia Lyons, coins the term “digital linguistic transference”…

If you recently taught a course in writing, rhetoric, and/or technical, professional, or business communication with a significant thematic focus on writing with or about data, we invite you to publish it as part of the Sweetland DRC Syllabus Repository. Please consider submitting your syllabus so that others might gain inspiration for their future courses by filling out this form. The deadline to submit is Wednesday, June 25th 2025. What is the Sweetland DRC Syllabus Repository? The Sweetland DRC Syllabus Repository is a public, crowd-sourced collection of syllabi of courses taught by our contributors. We see the syllabus repository as…

For much of rhetoric’s history, circulation—the cultural and spatio-temporal flow of texts, ideas, and images through various networks, platforms, and structures—has been less of an explicit area of study and more of an “assumed phenomenon” (Gries, 2018, p. 3) running through the field. However, since the digital turn, our focus on computers, algorithms, and digital platforms that allow texts to accumulate momentum and meaning across time and space has contributed to renewed interest in circulation studies as an area of inquiry and framework. In the introduction to Circulation, Writing, and Rhetoric, edited by Laurie Gries and Collin Brooke, Gries argues…