CHAT and Literate Activity: Research and Writing Tools for the Complexities You Didn't Call For

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Joyce Walker and Rachel Gramer unpack CHAT and literate activity as writing superpower tools that all writers can use to better understand how and why writing is complex all of the time. They use CHAT-grounded research terms to share one writing research method to make writing visible as a complex activity: a CHAT Map.

Bachelor Nation: Deep Dive Into a Discourse Community

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Ella Kruse investigates Bachelor Nation, the discourse community of the popular romance
reality TV show franchise “The Bachelor.” Kruse researches the history of Bachelor Nation and analyzes how members share common practices, language use, and goals.

GWRJ Short: The Interview Begins When the Research Does

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Jessica Kreul discusses the research practices she engaged in when applying and interviewing for two internship positions through the Department of English at Illinois State University in this GWRJ Short.

Rhythms and Resonances of Notebooking

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Steve Lamos explores how notebooking (a regular writing practice focused on routine life events) can capture both interesting rhythmic patterns of literate activity and interesting resonances (that is, transformative connections) between and beyond these rhythmic patterns. Lamos further analyzes the specific rhythms and resonances of literate activity that they experienced as a professor who also drums in the band, American Football.

Manic Panic: When You're Not a "Natural" Rainbowhead

 

In this reprint from GWRJ 13.2 (2023), Alicia Shupe explores the importance of genre  analysis and conventions and using critical thinking in concert with antecedent knowledge to read people much as we might read a text.

Keeping It Personal: A Conversation on the Importance of Self in a GWRJ Article

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In this interview transcribed from an episode of the “Conversations with GWRJ Authors” podcast series, Alicia Shupe talks with Janine Blue about how she came up with the idea for her GWRJ article “Manic Panic: When You’re Not a ‘Natural’ Rainbowhead.” Shupe  shares how they researched such a personal topic of discussion and why everyone can  start writing a GWRJ article by looking inward.

Let It Be: The Beatles in Sticker Form, a Genre Analysis

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What do Beatlemania and decorating water bottles have in common? You guessed it (or maybe you didn’t if you didn’t read the title): Beatles stickers. Felicity Schryer looks in- depth at the genre of vinyl stickers and how Beatles vinyl stickers operate as texts for  Beatles fans.

A Reader's Worst Fear: A Genre Analysis of Those Pesky Book Stickers

 

Laurel Staniszewski investigates the genre of book stickers, which have a powerful  influence on customers and book publishers. Staniszewski discusses why book stickers  are placed on book covers, how the genre works, and how people perceive the small  round bits of information.

Picturing Literate Activity: Tab, You're It

 

Through images, Janine Blue demonstrates the presence of her diverse identities in  digital spaces via browser tabs and Google profiles and interprets how organizing her  digital life affects her mindset.

Time to BeReal.

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BeReal is an app that is often overlooked despite it allowing people to feel comfortable in  their skin while participating in selfie-posting. Caitlin Migon shares how genre, activity  systems, antecedent knowledge, and P-CHAT terms correlate to self acceptance and long-lasting friendships, which they learned while taking ENG 101.

What's In a Name? A Whole Lot of Literate Activity

 

Choosing a name for a child is simple, right? After Chloe Migon spoke with her mom, she thought differently. Migon demonstrates how the choosing of baby names could be an  activity where ISU Writing Program terms and concepts can be applied in interesting  ways.

Picturing Literate Activity: Communicating With Your Future Self Through Planners

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Using two images, Grace Betts illustrates how individuals take part in literate activity  every day through the personal languages of planners in this Picturing Literate Activity  piece.

Chomping at the Bit: How Equestrian Athletes Use Literate Activity

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Ella Bickerman discusses equestrian literacies, especially the tools and activities through  which horses and humans learn to read each other, and how they learn to communicate  and collaborate with each other to achieve specific goals and outcomes.

Picturing Literate Activity: The Magic of a Table

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How can a table participate in literate activity success? Didar Hossain shares a little bit  about the role of a table in his study habits in this Picturing Literate Activity piece.