Research

• Erasing Property Lines: A Collaborative Notion of Authorship and Textual Ownership on a Fan Wiki. ”Computers and Composition.” 28.1. 2011.
• Ruby-Slippers, Flying-Monkeys, and Coordinating Conjunctions: A Journey Down the Yellow Brick Road of Grammar Instruction, [http://www.bedfordstmartins.com/lore-fa03/digressions/index.htm ''LORE'']. Bedford/St. Martin’s, Fall2003.

Revise and Resubmit

• Hypersocial-Interactive Writing: An Audience of Readers-as-Writers. Submitted Sept. 2011.

Works In Progress

• Patterns of Collaborative Talk of Warcraft Wiki-Writers.
• Fork U!: The Implications of Share-and-Share-Alike in Wiki Communities

“Teaching/Learning Facebook with Generation-E: What elder populations can teach us about learning and digital literacies.”
An article-length consideration of a service-learning project focused on undergraduates teaching local elders to use Facebook to connect with friends and family. Preliminary drafting begun; 2nd course project to take place Spring 2013. Projected completion date: August 2013.

“Writing WoWWiki: Collaboration, Conversation, and Composition in an Online Community of Writers.”
This book-in-progress argues that the affordances of the wiki have created conditions in which different values and beliefs about text production and ownership are necessary. In a situation in which writers and readers can, and often must, take on both identities, contributors need to acquire a similar mindset if their collaborations are to succeed. The book closely considers, for example, how collaborative practices and the wiki emerge out of the social web and illustrates how writing practices on WoWWiki are both technologically and socially inflected. The technological (i.e., the design of MediaWiki) and the social (i.e., the community’s norms) work together to shape writing practices and blur the line between what it means to be a writer and reader—redefining key terms in writing studies such as audience and authorship. Accordingly, the book argues for a hypersocial-interactive model of wiki-mediated writing that augments past, print-based, models of audience and notions of authorship in a time and context where writers are many. 7 chapters projected. 5 drafted to date.