UM Press Annotates Digital Writing and Education: Sites of Translation
UM Press Annotates welcomes readers to the third month of our pilot project and invites readers to annotate around the theme of digital writing and education in our open access ebooks on Fulcrum.
We begin with Sites of Translation: What Multilinguals Can Teach Us about Digital Writing and Rhetoric by Laura Gonzales (University of Michigan Press, 2018). Sites of Translation considers how multilingual communicators can use digital tools and rhetorical strategies to transform language.
Readers are invited to annotate chapter five, “How Do Multilingual Students Navigate Translation?” In this chapter, Gonzales describes the work of English-Spanish translators in a bilingual student news broadcasting organization. She illustrates how the translators use digital tools to prepare multimodal news stories.
Please join us in annotating “ How Do Multilingual Students Navigate Translation? ” from Laura Gonzales’ Sites of Translation from March 20 th through March 26 th .
How to Participate
The University of Michigan Press looks forward to engaging with readers through UM Press Annotates. To help make the conversation productive for all, we ask annotators to follow these community guidelines:
- Seek to understand differing perspectives. Questions can inspire meaningful conversation and help us develop shared understandings, even where we may disagree.
- We welcome scholarly disagreements, but ask all annotators to engage in respectful communication practices.
- Help make the conversation searchable across social media with the hashtags #UMPAnnotates and #DisabilityStudies.
To add annotations and respond to others, sign up for a free Hypothesis account . Once you have an account, there’s no need to install a browser extension; Hypothesis is embedded in our Fulcrum platform. Sign in, select some text, and click the annotate button to join the conversation: happy annotating!
This post was written by Michelle Sprouse, a PhD candidate in the University of Michigan’s department of English and Education and UM Press editorial intern. Michelle currently oversees the UM Press Annotates pilot program. In her own research, she explores social annotation as a tool for connecting reading and writing in post-secondary contexts.
