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Experienced Teachers, Emergent Researchers: Graduate Students Developing Scholarly Identities

by Stacie Klinowski, Jackie Ordway, and Rachel Smith Olson | Xchanges 19.1, Spring 2025


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Contents

Introduction

Graduate Students’ Development of Academic Identities

The Goals and Mission of EnglWrit111

Stacie’s Teaching Reflection

Rachel’s Teaching Reflection

Jackie’s Teaching Reflection

Synthesizing and Looking Outward

Works Cited

About the Authors

About the Authors

Stacie Klinowski is a PhD candidate in Composition and Rhetoric at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, where she teaches composition classes and has worked in the past as Assistant Director and WAC Coordinator of the Writing Center. Her research focuses on how members of a community writing group use literacy to respond to social change.

Jaclyn Ordway is a PhD candidate in Composition and Rhetoric at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, where she teaches in the Writing Program and English Department. In the past, she has also worked as Assistant Director of the UMass Writing Center and Assistant to the Director of the Western Massachusetts Writing Project. Her research focuses on the circulation of digital rhetorics, particularly activist rhetorics.

Rachel Smith Olson is a PhD candidate in Composition and Rhetoric at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. She works as a teaching associate in the UMass Writing Program and an editorial assistant for Peitho. Her research focuses on feminist rhetoric, social action, and emergent technology.

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Posted by nicole_oconnell on Apr 17, 2025 in Issue 19.1

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