Getting Personal

Introduction
Laura Gray-Rosendale

Part I. Personal Essays, Digital Compositions, and Literacy Narratives

1. Teaching the Personal Essay in the Digital Age
Ned Stuckey-French

2. Writing the Way Home: Creative Nonfiction and Digital Circulation in a Veterans' Writing Group
Eileen E. Schell

3. Essaying to Understand Violence
Amy E. Robillard

4. Digital Portraits: Engaging Students in Personal Essay Writing through Video Composition
Michael Neal 5. Stories within Stories: Three Reflections on Working with the DALN
Ben McCorkle, Paige Arrington, and Michael Harker

Part II. Blogging, Tweeting, Texting, and Online Classes

6. Living the Expressivists' Dream: Writing Meets Blogging as Theory Meets Practice
Bonnie Sunstein

7. Rapid Organicness: Using Twitter to Expand Young Writers' Creativity and Their Sense of Community
Brian Oliu

8. Old Pond: 127 Ways to Look at Texts with Tweets
Michael Martone

9. #Because Social Media: Personal Writing and the Brave New World of Digital Style
Paul Butler

10. Teaching the History of Life Writing and Memoir Online
Laura Gray-Rosendale

11. Students Tell Me Things: Personal Writing in New Media Studies
Aimée Morrison

Part III. Voice Lessons, Multimodal Genres, and Digital Stylings

12. Voice Lessons: Hearing and Constructing Personal Voices in a Digital Age
Lynn Z. Bloom

13. When Research Goes Personal: Incorporating the Digital Multimodal Research Project in a First-Year Writing Course
Christine Martorana

14. A Queer Challenge to Repronormativity in the Digital Classroom
Zarah C. Moeggenberg

15. The Pleasure of the Voice: Speakerly Writing in the Digital Age
Jeff Porter

List of Contributors
Index