Dissertation: Voices From The Void: Dual Enrollment User eXperience (DEUX) with Composition
A brief Overview
Methods
Dissertation Question-- [Longitudinal, cross-case analysis] How DE "users" experience composition at 4-year universities?
UX User Experience--industry method newly used in writing studies research (Potts/Salvo); values user experience and journeys; visual storytelling- e.g nostalgic narratives/user narrative (Kurlinkus); Journey and Empathy Mapping (Grice)
Stage interviews; member-checking
Nostalgia User Experiences as auto-ethnography
Key Finding
Journey through composition's thresholds revealed DEUs shared similar embodiment interactions at composition's thresholds
1. same campus, same time (DE; ELA Major)
2. different universities (A2; Brown; U of T)
3. non-trad students (DE; returning)
Informs Barriers, Actions, and Outcomes
Departmental/Program Level= WPA's at 4-year; praxis development and curriculum design
Institutional Level= partnerships and **articulation agreements; course congruence/concurrent;
Field Level=WAC/WID collaboration; pre-service in-service teacher prep
Methodologies
Cultural Rhetorics-- Indigenous, Queer for ontological storying; values researcher/participant relationship; researcher positionality e.g relationality (mukavetz); orientation (Ahmed)
Racial Storytelling--Black and BIPOC stories by Black and BIPOC; values radical imagination e.g counter-storytelling (Johnson); Embodiment (Ore; Chawla; Banks; Young)
Threshold Concepts--Naming What we Know (Yancey) high school-to-college threshold; lens to view user journey e.g. writing is...social and rhetorical activity; creates ideologies and identities; also always cognitive.
Where Do I see this going...?
UX in Writing Studies Research
UCD in composition
Usability of FYW for non-trads
