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Issue 20.1/2 — Spring 2026 · 25th Anniversary Issue
Editor’s Note
Reflection
Essays
- Investigating the Rhetorical Strategies in Tesla’s Zero-Dollar Social Media Marketing
- Amplifying Online Activism: Multimedia Elements in the #StopillegalMining Campaign in Ghana
- Crafting Inclusive Classrooms: Applying Invitational Rhetoric to Technical Communication Pedagogy
- Health Inequity Exposé: The Rhetoric of Racism as a Public Health Crisis
Issue 19.2 — Fall 2025
Editor’s Note
Essays
- Academic Leadership by Day, Student by Night
- Empathy for the Instructor
- Critical Imagining of Accommodation Letters
- Teaching With Trauma and PTSD
- It’s Not Just About Convenience
- Identity Work and Affect
- This Is How We Change Things
- Reclaiming Authority in the FYC Classroom
- Supporting Students’ Own Languages
- Empowering Voices
Retrospective
Issue 19.1 — Spring 2025
Editor’s Note
Essays
- Chat(GPT)-ing about the Affordances Generative AI Tools Offer for ADHD Writers
- Experienced Teachers, Emergent Researchers: Graduate Students Developing Scholarly Identities
- Local Assessment Design and Graduate Student Wellbeing
- Precarity and Negotiations of Racialized Identities of Two POC Grad Instructors in a PWI
- Redistributing Care Work: Toward Labor Justice for Graduate Student Instructors
- Tactically Transgressive Teaching: Dis/Empowerment as Graduate Student-Instructors
- Identity Narrative Assignment: How Writing About Students’ Identities Shapes Their Writerly Voice
- Digital Interference: Challenges in Teaching Multimodal Projects in First-Year Composition
- The TPC Contact Zone: Preparing Graduate Student Instructors for Students’ Writing Realities
- Teaching Boldly, Teaching Queerly: Embracing Radical (Un)Growth and Possibilities as a Graduate Instructor in First-Year Writing
Issue 18.1/2 — Spring 2024
Editor’s Note
Essays
- An International Graduate Teaching Student’s First Year as a First-year Writing Instructor
- Centers for Teaching and Learning: Investing in Your Teaching as a Graduate Student
- An Everyman Inside of a Superman: A Cluster Analysis of Action Comics #1
- How do I (really) revise my writing?
- “Conversation at the Boundaries Between Communities”: An Examination of Tutor and Peer Review Effectiveness Based on Commenting Practices
Issue 17.1/2 — Spring/Fall 2022
Editor’s Note
Issue 17.1 Articles
- Stories We Hear, Stories We Tell, and Stories We Live: Teaching Narrative in the Technical Communication Classroom
- Examining the Effectiveness of a Peer Writing Coaching Model
Issue 17.2 Articles
Issue 16.2 — Fall 2021
Editor’s Note
Essays
- Rugged Truth: Individualism in Chicago’s Prominent Newspapers throughout the 1920-1930s
- From Industry to Creativity: The Westinghouse Memorial and the Evolution of Pittsburgh
- Examining Equity in Accessibility to Undergraduate Scientific Research
- Understanding the Experiences of Technical Writers in New Zealand and Australia
- Brockhampton: The All-American Boyband
- Parabolic Fear Appeals, Culturally Responsible Messaging about HIV/AIDS, and the Metaphor of the Grim Reaper
Issue 16.1 — Spring 2021
Editor’s Note
Essays
- Extending Informed Self-Placement: The Case for Students’ Dispositions
- Cameraphone Composition: Documentary Filmmaking as Civic-Rhetorical Action in First-Year Composition
- Reimagining Activist Data: A Critique of the STOP AAPI HATE Reports through a Cultural Rhetorics Lens
- Rhetorical Style Analysis of the Statement of Purpose (SP) Genre: A Shared Understanding of Lexis in Successful SPs
- Using Contact Zone Concepts to Teach Critical Autoethnography to Multilingual Writers in Foundational Composition
- Bad Sex vs. No Sex: The Rhetoric of Heteronormative Temporality in Utah’s Abstinence-Based Education
Issue 15.2 — Fall 2020
Editor’s Note
Essays
- Whose Right is it Anyway?: A Rhetorical Analysis of the Universal Human Rights Problem
- ‘The Greatest of Wrongs’: A Rhetorical Analysis of Narratives on the Death of Mangas Coloradas
- Finding a Way to Win Gay in an Evolving Historical Movement: How Harvey Milk’s Rhetoric Led Him to San Francisco City Supervisor
- ‘Where Is He?!’: Asian/American Representation in Netflix Original Programming
- Chance (re)Collections: Twine Games and Preservation on the Internet
- Grammatology in the Carceral State: Writing, the Human, and Abolitionist Pedagogies
Issue 15.1 — Spring 2020 · with Symposium on Graduate Study in Rhetoric & Composition
Editor’s Note
Essays
- The Shrine of Chino Mine: Extraction Rhetoric and Public Memory in Southern New Mexico
- Mimetics as Digital Culture
- Student Perceptions of Writing Instruction: Twitter as a Tool for Pedagogical Growth
Symposium on the Status of Graduate Study in Rhetoric and Composition
- Editor’s Introduction: Rhetoric and Composition Graduate Students Define Their Identities Against Dominant Narratives
- On the Front Lines: Graduate Student Roles in Shaping Discourse in Digital Spaces
- Subterranean Fire: The Percolating Currents of Graduate Labor Activism in Rhetoric and Composition
- Mental Health in a Disabling Landscape: Forging Networks of Care in Graduate School
- (Re)Producing (E)Motions: Motherhood, Academic Spaces, and Neoliberal Times
- Doing it Herself: Cultivating a Feminist Ecological Ethos as a Female Graduate Student
- Emerging through Critical Race Theory Counter-Storytelling in a Rhetoric and Composition Graduate Studies Context
- Unease with a Face of Certainty: A Personal Rhetorical History of My Imposter Syndrome
- Don’t Talk About It, Be About It: A Model of Material Support for Black Graduate Students
- Mentorship, Affordability, and Equity: Ways Forward in Writing Program Administration
- Opportunity/Exploitation
- The Necessity of Genre Disruption in Organizing an Advocacy Space for and by Graduate Students
Issue 14.2 — Fall 2019
Editor’s Note
Essays
- American Misconceptions of Syria
- What Bush Said: The War on Terror and the Rhetorical Situation
- PragerU as Genre: How Ideologies Typify Speech
- A Disconnect in the Process and Understanding of Prescription Medications
- Creativity and Collaboration: The Relationship of Fact and Fiction in Personal Writing
Interview
Issue 14.1 — Spring 2019
Editor’s Note
Articles
- User Experiences of Spanish-Speaking Latinos with the Frontier Behavioral Health Website
- What Wants to be Said (Out Loud)?: Octalogs as Alter/native to Hegemonic Discourse Practices
- Building Critical Decolonial Digital Archives: Recognizing Complexities to Reimagine Possibilities
- Differences in Print and Screen Reading in Graduate Students
Interview
Issue 13.2 — Fall 2018
Editor’s Note
Articles
- The Gaming Trifecta: Understanding the Exclusion of Female Video Game Protagonists
- Students’ Perceptions of Written Instructor Feedback on Student Writing
- Fusa Tsumagari, a Japanese American Woman, and Her Intersectional Use of Conversational and Contrastive Rhetorical Styles
Interview
Issue 12.2/13.1 — Fall 2017/Spring 2018
Editor’s Note
Articles
- Exploring the Benefits of Blog Use in First-Year Composition: A Pilot Study
- Epistemic Certainty Surrounding Dietary Recommendations for Meat
- Contextualizing Place as Type: Creating an Auburn Typeface
- The Genre of Scams
- Visualising Affect Using Virtual Reality
- Influential Advertising: Dove and Its Use of Rhetorical Elements in Commercials and Social Media
Issue 12.1 — Spring 2017
Editor’s Note
Articles
- Digital Media Strategies in a 21st Century Church
- Assisting Writers with Assistive Technology
- Multiliteracies for Inclusive Technologies: A Case Study on Location-Based Services and Domestic Violence Survivors
- Rhetorical Web Design: Thinking Critically about Ready-Made Web Templates and the Problem of Ease
Issue 11.2 — Fall 2016
Editor’s Note
Articles
- Exploring Science Literacy and the Literacy Communities of the Anti-Vaccination Movement
- The Ethos of Mark Driscoll: A Summary of an Undergraduate Thesis
- Strengthening Connections with the Audience: Reformation and Exemplification in Mathematics Research Articles
- A Different Kind of War Film: The Ethos of the Individual Soldier in The Hurt Locker
Issue 10.2/11.1 — 2015/2016
Editor’s Note
Articles
Issue 9.2 — Fall 2014
Editor’s Note
Articles
- Transition in and between Discourse Communities: One Nurse’s Struggle
- “Intermediate-Level” Communication: A Model of Communication for Multiple Cultures
- Reclaiming Rhetorical Worth: Feminist Blogs as a Space for Equality, Cooperation, and Action
- Cybersecurity Computer-Based Training and Technical Communication Design
Issue 9.1 — Spring 2014
Editor’s Note
Articles
- Developing Curriculum for a Multi-Course Interdepartmental Learning Community to Promote Retention and Learning for Underprepared Engineering Students
- The Will to Revise: Commenting, Revision, and Motivation in College Students
- The ‘Hispanic’ Race Debate: Limitations of the Term in an Orlando School Board Controversy
- Invention and Identification Through Intertextual Appropriation of Academic Discourse
Issue 8.2 — Fall 2013
Issue 8.1 — Spring 2013
Editor’s Note
Articles
- Strengthening Technical Communication with Educational Theory
- Professional Writers, Personality Types, & Genre Choice
- Mobile, Handheld Devices with Touchscreens: How Perceived Usability Affects Communication
- Video Social Media: A Reference for Integrating and Applying Video Social Media as a Technical Communicator
Issue 7.2 — Fall 2012
Editor’s Note
Articles
- Beyond Economics: Intersections and Opportunities with Adam Smith in the Writing and Rhetoric Classroom
- Cogito Ergo Scribo: Applying Self-Schema Theory to the Composition Classroom
- Persuasion Beyond Logic: The Importance of Rhetorical Training for Military Officers
- For Sale by ‘Author’: Online Essay Mills and Authorship in the Academy
Issue 7.1 — Spring 2012
Editor’s Note
Articles
Issue 6.2 — Fall 2011
Editor’s Note
Articles
Issue 6.1 — Spring 2011
Editor’s Note
Section I: Creative and Critical Approaches in Composition and Rhetoric
- “Perspectives on the Writing Center and Writing Across the Curriculum: A Dialogue Between the Sciences and Humanities”
- “Rhetorical Analysis of a Corporate Website: Philip Morris, Ethos, and Ethics”
- “Pedagogy Shaped by Ideology: Beneath or Beyond Plato”
- “Excuse My Excess”
Section II: Technical Communication: Practice and Analysis
Issues 1–5 — 2001–2010 · Wayne State American Studies era
For the first years of its existence, Xchanges was produced out of the American Studies program at Wayne State University. These issues are hosted on the original Xchanges archive.
- Issue 5.1 — The World is Not America: Re-Membering Politics and the Arts
- Issue 4.2 — American Memory
- Issue 4.1 — American Stories and the Commerce of National Identity
- Issue 3.1 — Towards the City of Our Dreams: Reading the Urban Landscape of Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow
- Issue 2.2 — Confrontation, Conflict, and Negotiations of National Space
- Issue 2.1 — Border Crossing and the Limits of Identity
- Issue 1.2 — American Originals, American Adaptations
- Issue 1.1 — Y|X (Youth Exchange): Representations of Adolescence Within and Beyond Cultural Boundaries