Rebecca Rickly

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Contents 1 Biography 2 Article Summaries 3 Additional Works 4 Further Readings 5 References 6 External Links

Biography

Rebecca Rickly (date of birth unknown-present) is a professor in the Department of English at Texas Tech University. She has also taught at Ball State University, Ohio State University, and high schools in Ohio and California. Her courses typically focus on digital rhetoric, research, composition, and technical communication. Rickly describes herself as a "Techno-Rhetorician" whose interests include fields outside of rhetoric including pedagogy, technology, and gender studies.

Rickly is an active member of the rhetoric and digital rhetoric communities, serving on the editorial boards of a number of scholarly journals, including Computers and Composition, Kairos: A Journal for Teachers in Webbed Writing Environments, and Online Writing Center Consortium. She has presented several times at the Conference on College Composition and Communication, including most recently in 2011 with her presentation "Creating – and Sustaining – a Culture of Research by Re-Creating the Required Research Methods Course."

Rickly lives with her partner and two children in Lubbock, Texas.

Article Summaries

Rickly, Rebecca "Messy Contexts: Research as a Rhetorical Situation"

Additional Works

Books

• Performing Feminist Administration in Rhetoric and Composition Studies. 2010.
• The Online Writing Classroom. 2000.

Selected Articles

• "The Importance of Harmony: An Ecological Metaphor for Writing Research." 2008.
• "Distributed Learning, Distributed Teaching: Integrating Technology and Objective Assessment into First Year Composition." 2006.
• "The Future of Computers and Writing: A Multi-Vocal Textumentary." 2004.
• "Computer-Mediated Communication as Reflective Rhetoric-in-Action: Dialogic Interaction, Technology, and Cross-Curricular Thinking." 2004.
• "Making Rhetoric Viable/Making Rhetoric Visible In First Year Writing Courses." 2003.
• "Writing Centers and WAC." 2002.
• "The Way We Will Have Become: Future (Histories) of Computers and Writing." 1998.
• "Creating a Virtual Academic Community: Scholarship and Community in Wide Area Multiple-User Synchronous Discussions." 1996.
• "What Matters Who Writes? What Matters Who Responds?" 1996.

Further Readings

References

External Links

• Rickly's website
• Rickly's TTU profile