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Cheryl E. Ball
Cheryl E. Ball
Born1973 (age 51–52)
Academic background
Alma materMichigan Technological University; Virginia Commonwealth University; Old Dominion University
Doctoral advisorAnne F. Wysocki
Academic work
DisciplineComposition studies; Rhetoric; Publishing
Institutions[Independent Scholar]

Cheryl E. Ball (born 1973) is an independent academic and scholar in rhetoric, composition, and publishing studies, and executive director for the Council of Editors of Learned Journals[1] (CELJ). Ball also serves as senior co-editor of Kairos: A Journal of Rhetoric, Technology, and Pedagogy, an open access, online journal dedicated to multimodal academic publishing, which she has edited since 2006.[2] Ball's awards include Best Article on Pedagogy or Curriculum in Technical or Science Communication from the Conference on College Composition and Communication (CCCC), the Computers and Composition Charles Moran Award for Distinguished Service to the Field, and the Technology Innovator Award presented by the CCCC Committee on Computers in Composition and Communication (7Cs).[3][4] Her book, The New Work of Composing (co-edited with Debra Journet and Ryan Trauman) was the winner of the 2012 Computers and Composition Distinguished Book Award.[5] Her contributions to academic research span the areas of digital publishing, new media scholarship, and multimodal writing pedagogy.

Biography

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Education

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Cheryl Ball earned a B.A. from Old Dominion University in 1996, an M.F.A. in Poetry from Virginia Commonwealth University in 2000, and a Ph.D. in Rhetoric and Technical Communication, from Michigan Technological University in 2005.[6]

Teaching and professional experience

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Ball is currently an independent scholar and digital publishing consultant.[7] Prior to this, she was Director of the Digital Publishing Collaborative at Wayne State University Libraries and Editor-in-Chief for the Library Publishing Curriculum.[8] She was also an associate professor of Digital Publishing at West Virginia University, and in 2013–14, was a visiting Fulbright Scholar at the Oslo School of Architecture and Design, in Oslo, Norway.[9] From 2007 to 2014, Ball was an assistant and associate professor of New Media Studies at Illinois State University. Her first academic position was as an assistant professor of Computers & Writing at Utah State University (2004–07).

Pronouns

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Ball uses the term pronoun flexible to refer to their gender identity while also referring to themselves as a "queer, cis, white woman".[10] They define this phrase on their website as "she/he/they/ze — whatever you see, you may call me. As long as it’s with respect!"[11]

Professional contributions

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Research and development

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Ball's research has focused on the areas of teaching and learning in multimodal composition, digital and open access publishing, new media studies, and alternative assessment models for multimodal writing.[9] Her research on the teaching, reading, and assessment of multimodal or new media composition forwards a rhetorical approach for analyzing and producing multimodal texts.[12]

In the area of digital publishing, Ball is the recipient, with Andrew Morrison, of over one million in grant funding from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation for the development of open access digital publishing platform, Vega[13][14] as well as an NEH Digital Humanities Start-Up Grant.[15] Ball's developmental work on Vega emerges from her recognition of the need for more robust digital platforms for the editing and publishing of multimedia research. She describes Vega as "an editorial management system that will move a piece of scholarly multimedia through the submission, review, and production processes as a single, scholarly entity."[16] Although the Vega platform work concluded in 2022,[17] Ball continues to develop ways for digital scholarly publishing to be more open, inclusive, and accessible through her research and work with Kairos,[18] CELJ, and professional consulting.[11]

Editorial work

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As an editor, Ball has extensive experience in open access, digital, and academic publishing, especially in the areas of new media or multimedia scholarly publishing. Much of this work has been focused on the open-access multimedia publication Kairos: A Journal of Rhetoric, Technology, and Pedagogy, which she has taken an active editorial role in since 2001.[2] While her official title has changed over the years (from CoverWeb editor, to editor, to senior co-editor), Ball's work for the journal has substantially shaped its mission as "the longest-running, and most stable, online journal" in the field of rhetoric and composition.[15] Ball was also instrumental in clarifying how articles or "webtexts" published in Kairos provide an opportunity for scholars to explore how multimodal, digital design elements can "enact authors' scholarly arguments, so that the form and content of the work are inseparable."[15] Beyond her work with Kairos, Ball has also served as both an assistant and associate editor of Computers and Composition: An International Journal from 2001 to 2004, and was the founding editor of the #writing book series editor at WAC Clearinghouse.[19]

Non-academic work

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Ball has recently developed work outside of the academic realm to include intuition, tarot,[20] carpentry, and digital nomadism. She writes about the intersections of these professional passions in non-fiction essays and two in-progress memoirs.[21]

Selected works

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Books

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  • Eyman, D, & Ball, C.E. (2023–ongoing). Publishing digital scholarship: A how-to guide and oral history [of the longest, continuously running open-access scholarly multimedia journal]. https://kairosbook.online
  • Ball, C. E., & Loewe, D. M. (2017). Bad ideas about writing. West Virginia University Libraries; Digital Publishing Institute. https://www.oercommons.org/courses/bad-ideas-about-writing
  • Journet, D., Ball, C., & Trauman, R. (Eds.). (2012). The New Work of Composing. Logan, UT: Computers and Composition Digital Press/Utah State University Press. http://ccdigitalpress.org/nwc
  • Ball, Cheryl, & James Kalmbach (eds.). (2010). RAW: (Reading and Writing) New Media. Hampton Press.

Textbooks

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  • Ball, C. E., Sheppard, J., & Arola, K. L. (2022). Writer/designer: A guide to making multimodal projects (3rd ed.). Bedford/St. Martin's.
  • Ball, C. E., Arola, K. L., & Bedford/St. Martin's. (2006). IX visual exercises for tech comm (CD). Boston: Bedford/St. Martins.

Articles

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  • Guimont, C., Ball, C.E., & Vaughn, M. (2024). Finding the right platform: A report on building a publishing platform crosswalk. International Journal of Librarianship, 8(4). [Special issue: Scholarly communications]. https://doi.org/10.23974/ijol.2024.vol8.4.342
  • Ball, Cheryl E. (2017). Building a scholarly multimedia publishing infrastructure. Journal of Scholarly Publishing, 48(2), 99–115
  • Eyman, D., & Ball, C. (2015). Digital humanities scholarship and electronic publication. Rhetoric and the digital humanities, 65.
  • Eyman, D., & Ball, C. E. (2014). Composing for digital publication: Rhetoric, design, code. Composition studies, 42(1), 114–117.
  • Ball, C. E., Bowen, T. S., & Fenn, T. B. (2013). Genre and transfer in a multimodal composition class. Multimodal literacies and emerging genres, 15–36.
  • Ball, C. E. (2012). Assessing scholarly multimedia: A rhetorical genre studies approach. Technical Communication Quarterly, 21(1), 61–77.
  • Anderson, D., Atkins, A., Ball, C., Millar, K. H., Selfe, C., & Selfe, R. (2006). Integrating multimodality into composition curricula: Survey methodology and results from a CCCC research grant. Composition Studies, 34(2), 59–84.
  • Ball, C. E. (2006). Designerly≠ readerly: Re-assessing multimodal and new media rubrics for use in writing studies. Convergence, 12(4), 393–412.
  • Ball, C. E. (2004). Show, not tell: The value of new media scholarship. Computers and Composition, 21(4), 403–425.

National awards

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  • Charles Moran Award for Distinguished Service to the Field. (2018). Presented by Computers &Composition: An International Journal at the 2018 Computers & Writing Conference.[4]
  • Computers and Composition Distinguished Book Award. (2013). For The New Work of Composing (ed. Journet, Ball, & Trauman).[22]
  • CCCC Technical and Scientific Communication Award for Best Article on Pedagogy or Curriculum in Technical or Scientific Communication. (2013). For “Assessing Scholarly Multimedia: A Rhetorical Genre Studies Approach.” [See publications entry].[23]
  • Technology Innovator Award. (2012). Presented by the Conference on College Composition andCommunication Committee on Computers in Composition and Communication (7Cs).

See also

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References

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  1. ^ "Contact". www.celj.org. Retrieved 2022-02-11.
  2. ^ a b "K A I R O S: 6.2". kairos.technorhetoric.net. Retrieved 2024-12-14.
  3. ^ "CCCC Technical and Scientific Communication Awards". Conference on College Composition and Communication. 2018-06-06. Retrieved 2022-02-11.
  4. ^ a b "Wayne State director of digital publishing receives prestigious Charles Moran Award – Library Community". Retrieved 2022-02-27.
  5. ^ "The New Work of Composing: Cover (Journet, Ball, & Trauman)". ccdigitalpress.org. Retrieved 2022-02-11.
  6. ^ "Cheryl Ball | Writing Studies Tree". writingstudiestree.org. Retrieved 2022-02-25.
  7. ^ "Cheryl E. Ball". Digital Publishing with Cheryl E. Ball. Retrieved 2024-12-14.
  8. ^ Schlosser, Melanie. "Cheryl Ball appointed as Library Publishing Curriculum Editor-in-Chief | Library Publishing Coalition". Library Publishing Coalition Blog. Retrieved 2022-02-11.
  9. ^ a b Skjellum, Eivind Figenschau. "Researcher: Cheryl E. Ball". Centre for Design Research. Retrieved 2022-02-25.
  10. ^ "Writer/Designer, 3rd Edition | Macmillan Learning US". www.macmillanlearning.com. Retrieved 2024-12-14.
  11. ^ a b "About Me". Digital Publishing with Cheryl E. Ball. Retrieved 2024-12-14.
  12. ^ "The New Work of Composing / CCDP". ccdigitalpress.org. Retrieved 2022-03-02.
  13. ^ "WVUToday Archive". wvutoday-archive.wvu.edu. Retrieved 2022-02-27.
  14. ^ "MTU Alumna Cheryl Ball Receives Grant From the Mellon Foundation". Humanities News, Features, and Other Updates. 2015-02-04. Retrieved 2022-02-27.
  15. ^ a b c Owens, Trevor (2014-09-22). "18 Years of Kairos Webtexts: An interview with Douglas Eyman & Cheryl E. Ball | The Signal". blogs.loc.gov. Retrieved 2022-02-27.
  16. ^ MITH. "Home". Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities. Retrieved 2022-03-02.
  17. ^ "Vega Publish". GitHub. Retrieved 2024-12-14.
  18. ^ "PraxisWiki | PraxisWiki:_:Inclusivity Action Plan". PraxisWiki. Retrieved 2024-12-14.
  19. ^ "#writing - The WAC Clearinghouse". wac.colostate.edu. Retrieved 2024-12-14.
  20. ^ "About 4". Digital Publishing with Cheryl E. Ball. Retrieved 2024-12-14.
  21. ^ "When Intuition Strikes". When Intuition Strikes. 2024-12-08. Retrieved 2024-12-14.
  22. ^ The New Work of Composing. Utah State University Press. August 2012. ISBN 978-0-87421-888-6.
  23. ^ "CCCC Technical and Scientific Communication Awards". Conference on College Composition and Communication. 2018-06-06. Retrieved 2022-03-03.

Further reading

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Published interviews

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  • Mahon, Wade. (2011). Multimodal composition & the rhetoric of teaching: A conversation with Cheryl Ball. Issues in Writing 18(2).
  • Ball, C. (2010). Writers Talk Featuring Cheryl Ball. Http://Streaming.Osu.Edu/Knowledgebank/Cstw10/Cheryl_Ball.Mp3.

Reviews

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  • Burnside, E. (2015). A Review of Writer/Designer: A Guide to Making Multimodal Projects. Kairos: A Journal of Rhetoric, Technology, and Pedagogy, 20(1). https://kairos.technorhetoric.net/20.1/reviews/burnside/index.html.
  • Vie, S. (2011). RAW (Reading and Writing) New Media (Eds. Cheryl Ball and James Kalmbach). Composition Studies, 39(2), 164–167.
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