CAHSS faculty and alumni Publish Article in Southern Discourse in the Center: Journal of Multiliteracy and Innovation

Faculty and alumna from the Composition, Rhetoric, and Digital Media Master’s program (in the College of Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences), and NSU Writing and Communication Center published an article in the summer 2019 issue of Southern Discourse in the Center, a Journal of Multiliteracy and Innovation. The journal promotes a community of writing center scholarship within the southeast and nationally while serving as a forum for innovative work across writing centers.

CAHSS Assistant Professor, Janine Morris, and CRDM Alumna Veronica Diaz and Noemi Nunez wrote, “Keeping a Clear Head: Enhancing Graduate Student Wellness through Meditation and Journaling in the Writing Center.”

The article discusses strategies to help writing center consultants balance the stress of academic obligations and personal lives, especially since the “effects of these stressors can ‘stick’ and affect our writing center work” (52). Among other habits, Morris, Diaz, and Nunez argue that journaling and meditation give consultants opportunities to squeeze stress management into their hectic schedules. The activities delineated above can each be done in 15 minutes or less, so students can rest easy knowing that doing them won’t upset the delicate balance they’ve established.

The article grew out of a workshop Morris, Diaz, and Nunez held at the 2018 East Central Writing Center Association conference. According to Diaz, “to have participated in the conference at the start of my time at NSU and have the piece published at the finish, like bookends to my CRDM experience, has been so rewarding! I’m grateful to the program for affording these kinds of opportunities to work with faculty and classmates (now friends) outside of the classroom.”

Nunez also expressed her gratitude for the extracurricular opportunities afforded by the program, stating “I feel quite honored to have been able to present at a conference so early in my program. It felt great to be able to talk about my experience as a graduate student among colleagues, and then to be able to have it published is such a wonderful accomplishment. I don’t think I could imagine a better master’s program than CRDM.”

To access Southern Discourse archives, click here. To learn more about the Composition, Rhetoric, and Digital Media Master’s program, visit https://cahss.nova.edu/departments/wc/grad-programs.html