Jon M. Wargo
Jon M. Wargo, a white-presenting man with short brown hair, is framed in front of a brick backdrop.
Dr. Jon M. Wargo is a 2020 NAEd/Spencer Postdoctoral Fellow and an assistant professor of Teaching, Curriculum, and Society in the Lynch School of Education & Human Development at Boston College. An educational researcher who attends closely to qualitative methods, Wargo engages community-based, ethnographic, and multimodal methodologies to examine how digital media and technology mediate contemporary conceptions of children's and youths’ social and civic education. Leveraging children’s and youths’ ingenuity and difference as sites/sights for teacher learning, his teaching and research focus on understanding and sustaining the literacies and lifeworlds of minoritized communities amid the context of social change. At BC, Wargo teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in literacy, social studies education, children’s and young adult literature, teacher education, and qualitative methodologies. You can find Wargo’s scholarship in Anthropology & Education Quarterly, the Journal of Literacy Research, Learning, Media & Technology, the Journal of Children’s Literature, and Theory & Research in Social Education.
Title: Writing Response-ably: On the Precarity and Promise of Writing for Publication
Date: Thursday, April 15, 10:00-11:30am
Description:From feeling de-valued after a desk reject to refuting areas of revision requested in a resubmission, the process and practice of writing for publication can be precarious. This workshop seeks to demystify and critically engage with these divergent processes through a lens writing response-ably. Advancing an ethics of writing for publication that humanizes participants' experience, it hopes to build capacity for a diversity of knowledges and experiences present. Tracing a publication from initial submission to proof and publication, participants in the workshop will survey a variety of scholarly journals and venues for academic publication, discuss how to write initial editorial correspondences, and respond to reviewer feedback. The workshop will conclude by examining various issues and questions that may arise in academic writing, such as how to mobilize digital resources for disseminating work and how to negotiate collaborative writing processes.
This workshop is limited to 25 participants.