Composition Studies 53.2 (Fall 2025)

The oldest independent periodical in the field, COMPOSITION STUDIES publishes original articles relevant to rhetoric and composition, including those that address teaching college writing; theorizing rhetoric and composing; administering writing programs; and, among other topics, preparing the field's future teacher-scholars. All perspectives and topics of general interest to the profession are welcome. We also publish Course Designs, which contextualize, theorize, and reflect on the content and pedagogy of a course. Contributions to Composing With are invited by the editor, though queries are welcome. Contents Of Composition Studies 53.2 (Fall 2025): Cover: Michael J. Day | Editors' Introduction: Editing in the Age of Generative AI by Jacob Babb and Zachary Beare | ARTICLES: Access Denied: Black Women's Experiences with Mentorship and Professional Development in Rhetoric and Composition Graduate Programs by Talisha Haltiwanger Morrison and Malina Anderson | Addressing and Overcoming Barriers in the First-Year Writing Classroom: The Story of an International Graduate Teaching Assistant of Color by Jainab Tabassum Banu | Where Chance and Invention Collide: Scrap Writing in the Composition Classroom by Danielle Koupf | Generative Artificial Memories: Teaching AI Text Generators as Rhetorical Memory Devices by John J. Silvestro | Fumbling Toward Co-Territorialized Spaces: Composition Pedagogy and Dual Enrollment by Joe Courchesne, Jennifer DiGrazia, and Wyatt Hermansen | Pandemic-Era Workload in the Online Writing Classroom: Lessons in Sustainability for the Future by Jennifer Sheppard | COURSE DESIGNS: AI & Writing: An Experimental First-Year Composition Course by Laura J. Panning Davies and Kate Navickas | Composing from Desire: Third Places in the First-Year Writing Curriculum by Charissa Che | WHERE WE ARE: TEACHING WRITING IN THE SECOND TRUMP ADMINISTRATION: Composition in the Shadow of Campus Protests by Jonathan Alexander | "As Long as There's Fire," with Apologies to David Bowie by Ryan Skinnell | Composition Among the Ruins by Lydia Wilkes | Until I Hit Ocean by Patti Poblete | BOOK REVIEWS: Navigating AI's Writing Revolution: A Review Essay and Call for Deliberation by Jason Tham | Feminist Technical Communication: Apparent Feminisms, Slow Crisis, and the Deepwater Horizon Disaster by Erin Clark, Reviewed by Brigida R. Blasi | Masking Inequality with Good Intentions: Systemic Bias, Counterspaces, and Discourse Acquisition in STEM Education by Heather M. Falconer, Reviewed by Shuvro Das | Cultivating Critical Language Awareness in the Writing Classroom by Shawna Shapiro, Reviewed by Ananta Khanal | "K for the Way:" DJ Rhetoric & Literacy for 21st Century Writing Studies by Todd Craig, Reviewed by Megan Palmer | Multimodal Composing and Writing Transfer, edited by Kara Poe Alexander Matthew Davis, Lillian W. Mina, and Ryan P. Shepherd, Reviewed by Abigail Robinson