Foreword
Joyce Kinkead
1. Introduction: The Study of Writing is the Study of Artifacts
Cydney Alexis and Hannah J. Rule
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2. The Addressograph and the Office
Kristen Lauren Widdes
3. ArcGIS Survey 123 on the Front Porch
Ania Payne, Josh Brewer, and Emmanuel Jeje
4. Atlas of Dewitt County, Illinois, 1875
Cynthia Ryan
5. Entrepreneurial Card Catalogue
Kristy Liles Crawley
6. The Course Notebook of Margaret Kane, 1899
Sarah E. Polo
7. Cross-Stones
Elitza Kotseva
8. My Delete Key
Hannah J. Rule
9. The Desk
Charlotte Kupsh
10. Digital Clutter
Joe Janangelo
11. My Dolly Parton Prayer Candle
Katie Beth Brooks
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12. Embroidery
Beverly Army Williams
13. A Facilitating Literacy Artifact: The Roller Skate
Cydney Alexis
14. A 1950s Christmas Gift Card
Sueellyn Duffey
15. The Graffiti Spray Can
Amina Tawasil
16. The Hourglass: A Tool to Create Timeless Time
Nicole K. Walker
17. Birchbark: Indigenous Paper
Amy Gore
18. The Ink Cake
Cheng He
19. Decoding the X: The Katrina Cross
Sarah Hirsch
20. The Microcomputer Kit and Electric Pencil
Eric D. Brown
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21. The Noticeboard: Object Gatekeeper and Lifeworld Montage
Paolo Franco
22. The Ouija Board
Dorian Cole
23. The Pager
Eric Leake
24. Photographs and Music
Christopher Carter and Laura R. Micciche
25. A 50th Wedding Anniversary Memory Quilt
Catherine G. Cooper
26. Shorthand
Heather Shearer
27. Sports Cars
Xiqiao Wang
28. The Feminist’s Typewriter
Jessica Edens McCrary
29. The Soviet Vinyl Collection
Jenny Krichevsky
30. Voice-O-Graph, 1954
Noel Thistle Tague
Postscript: A Writing Artifacts Heuristic
Cydney Alexis and Hannah J. Rule
Biography
Cydney Alexis is Associate Professor of English in Writing, Rhetoric, and Technical Communication at Kansas State University, USA. She is the co-editor of The Material Culture of Writing (2022) and her work has appeared in publications such as Bad Ideas about Writing (2017); Rhetoric, through Everyday Things (2017); and Slate.
Hannah J. Rule is Associate Professor of English in Composition and Rhetoric at the University of South Carolina, USA. She is the author of Situating Writing Processes (2019) and co-editor of The Material Culture of Writing (2022).
"Writing Artifacts’ succinct chapters are scholarly investigations, yes, but they are also love letters to the materials we use to record, compose, and create. I came away from this one-of-a-kind book re-enchanted with the everyday artifactual world."
Kate Viera, University of Wisconsin, USA
"Alexis and Rule stretch the bandwidth of artifactual research and the fluency of thought and writing that emerges from artifacts. Insightful and moving, the experience of reading this book is intimate, archaeological, and ethnographic."
Kate Pahl and Jennifer Rowsell, Manchester Metropolitan University and King's College, England, UK
