CWRU's Common Reading selection for 2025-26 is Ashley Shew's Against Technoableism: Rethinking Who Needs Improvement. Professor Shew will speak at the University Welcome & Fall Convocation on Monday, August 18.
Fall Convocation is the formal opening of the academic year; it is an event that offers an opportunity to reflect on the history, symbols, and traditions of the university. Instructors might decide to attend the event together as a class, or you might ask students to reflect on their experience and their expectations for college. We have found that a brief, written reflection can help faculty plan activities and assignments to support their student writers, and reflection is an important academic success skill for students.
Our Resources for Faculty page offers some general advice about working with student writers, and the Writing Resource Center consultants are ready to work with faculty, staff, and students on their writing projects this year.
Additional Resources
- Prof. Shew appears on NPR's Science Friday (September 29, 2023)
- Resource Guide (Norton) - includes supplementary readings for each chapter of the text
- KSL Research Guide (coming soon)
- Explore the resources on FilmDis.org, a project by Dom Evans & Ashtyn Law, "tracking representations on TV of disabled people over various calendar years" (Shew p. 35).
- The Disability Visibility Project, founded by Alice Wong, is an online community dedicated to creating, sharing, and amplifying disability media and culture.
- Disability Rhetoric is the web home of the Disability Studies standing group (part of the Conference on College Composition & Communication) - it provides a variety of scholarly materials related to disability studies and writing & rhetoric. See, especially, their Resources page.
- World Design Organization, "Technoableism and the Pursuit of Conscientious Design" (January 18, 2024) - discusses the work of Miyuki Tanaka