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<p class="gmail-MsoNoSpacing" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">We're excited to announce a forthcoming edited collection
with the WAC Clearinghouse. </p>

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<p class="gmail-MsoNoSpacing" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">In 2015, we created The Online Writing Instruction
Community (<a href="http://www.owicommunity.org/" style="color:blue">http://www.owicommunity.org/</a>)
as a free resource for online writing instructors and administrators.  </p>

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<p class="gmail-MsoNoSpacing" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">When we created the website, we also created The PARS approach
to online writing instruction. With the PARS approach, we drew on some
very basic, but fundamental best practices of online writing instruction. </p>

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<p class="gmail-MsoNoSpacing" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">PARS stands for:</p>

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<p class="gmail-MsoNoSpacing" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">•             Personal</p>

<p class="gmail-MsoNoSpacing" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">•             Accessible</p>

<p class="gmail-MsoNoSpacing" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">•             Responsive</p>

<p class="gmail-MsoNoSpacing" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">•             Strategic</p>

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<p class="gmail-MsoNoSpacing" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">In the fall of 2019, the WAC Clearinghouse released our
first book, <i>Personal, Accessible, Responsive, Strategic: Resources and
Strategies for Online Writing Instructors</i> (<a href="https://wac.colostate.edu/books/practice/pars/" style="color:blue">https://wac.colostate.edu/books/practice/pars/</a>)</p>

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<p class="gmail-MsoNoSpacing" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">In our text, we introduced the PARS approach to online
writing instruction in more detail and we discussed how we see online writing
courses as a user experience; therefore, the PARS approach and our first book
are grounded in user experience (UX) best practices. </p>

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<p class="gmail-MsoNoSpacing" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Our hope is that the chapters in this upcoming edited
collection will be an extension of our co-authored text but will allow for more
voices (your voices) that highlight the application of the PARS approach and UX
to online writing instruction/course development. </p>

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<p class="gmail-MsoNoSpacing" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">We imagine these pieces to be extensions of the
application-based vignettes from our book, “Drive for Show, Putt for Dough!”
and “For the Hole in One!”. In our book, these short and practical “how tos”
offered readers quick and easy things that they could try in their online
writing courses that would make a big impact on the student and faculty user
experience. </p>

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<p class="gmail-MsoNoSpacing" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">With this edited collection we want to offer more of
these practical “how tos” that come from a myriad of voices (your voices) in
the sub-field of online writing instruction. </p>

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<p class="gmail-MsoNoSpacing" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Please see the attached CFP for the full call.</p>

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<p class="gmail-MsoNoSpacing" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">We hope you'll submit a chapter idea! </p>

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<p class="gmail-MsoNoSpacing" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Best,</p>

<p class="gmail-MsoNoSpacing" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Jessie Borgman</p>

<p class="gmail-MsoNoSpacing" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Casey McArdle</p></div><div><br></div><br></div>