Writing Together, Online: Exploring Community and Academic Supports for Online Graduate Students' High-Stakes Writing Projects

• In Event: The Dynamic Presence and Futures of Writing and Literacies

Abstract

This paper uses qualitative research methods to better understand the lived experiences of fully online graduate students that have worked asynchronously on individual, high-stakes writing projects. We seek to explore their notions of community and academic supports during thesis project endeavors to inform our own pedagogy and recommendations to others. A significant goal of this project is to advocate for curricula that supports multiple perspectives and equity in assessment of language and ideas of thesis projects. Online students are a growing, but often overlooked and underrepresented student population; many of whom have marginalized identities. With this in mind, we engaged dialogically with alumni-participants to document their experiences and enter into reflective conversations in service of humanizing online writing pedagogy.

Authors

• Kristine Rodriguez Kerr
  Presenting Author

• Katherine Newhouse, New York University
  Presenting Author