RNF 2008: Tips on Digital Scholarship
abstract
This is a talk I gave with Kris Blair (her portion is excised from the attachment, but I’m sending it to her) at the Research Network Forum 2008, during CCCC in New Orleans. We spoke to about, oh, 100+ people about publishing digital scholarship. I’ll write more on this later and include the handouts I distributed. Just trying to throw the talk portion online quickly now.
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presentations, research | Comment (0)awards: Summer Faculty Professional Development Fellowship
Great news, which I will post/edit more into later. This is a summer fellowship to work on my digital tenure portfolio, which I will use to propose to the college/university for use in my actual tenure case. Rock on, ISU, for supporting innovative professional development.
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grants, research | Comment (0)CCCC 2008: “Peer Review in Digital Scholarship”
citation
Ball, Cheryl E. (2008, April 3). Scholarly peer-review in new media. Conference on College Composition and Communication, New Orleans, LA.
abstract
The MLA Report on Evaluating Scholarship for Tenure and Promotion (2006) renews the legitimacy gap between refereed print articles and refereed electronic articles, indicating that, “print articles count […] in 97.9% of departments, as compared with 46.8% for articles in electronic form.” The report notes, however, that electronic forms often don’t take into consideration new media forms of scholarship, such as the “innovative webtexts” published by several online journals in composition and rhetoric, and which James English (2005) wrote in the Journal of Scholarship Publishing as being an inconsequential form of scholarship. As the MLA Report suggests, the value of peer-reviewed digital publications might be greater if tenure committees knew how to read them, a problem that is heightened by the unfamiliarity of new media scholarship. To help, I examine a webtext to show how authors, editors, and review boards value a new media publication so as to provide an example for understanding scholarly innovation, which T&P committees can follow.
co-presenters
- Joyce Walker and James Purdy, “Valuing Digital Scholarship, Parts I and II”
- Cindy Selfe and Gail Hawisher, “New Scholarship for a New World, Parts I and II”
attendance: 100+
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