Marie Pruitt

Citation network showing intra-journal citations in CCC from 1950-2022 with labels and arrows pointing to the top 10 articles with the highest eigenvector centrality: "Revision Strategies of Student Writers and Experienced Adult Writers" by Nancy Sommers, "The Cognition of Discovery: Defining a Rhetorical Problem" by Linda Flower and John R. Hayes, "A Cognitive Process Theory of Writing" by Linda Flower and John R. Hayes, "The Need for Theory in Composition Research" Nancy I. Sommers, "Composing as a Woman" by Elizabeth A. Flynn, "The Idea of Community in the Study of Writing" by Joseph Harris, "Kitchen Tables and Rented Rooms: The Extracurriculum of Composition" by Anne Ruggles Gere, "Pre-Writing: The Stage of Discovery in the Writing Process" by D. Gordon Rohman, "When the First Voice You Hear Is Not Your Own" by Jacqueline Jones Royster, and "Writing as a Mode of Learning" by Janet Emig.

Citation network showing intra-journal citations in CCC from 1950-2022 with labels and arrows pointing to the top 10 articles with the highest betweeness centrality: "Dispositions Toward Language: Teacher Constructs of Knowledge and the Ann Arbor Black English Case" by Arnetha Ball and Ted Lardner, "CCCC’s Role in the Struggle for Language Rights" by Geneva Smitherman, "Beyond the Personal: Theorizing a Politics of Location in Composition Research" by Gesa E. Kirsch and Joy S. Ritchie, "Cognition, Context, and Theory Building" by Linda Flower, "Pygmalion or Golem? Teacher Affect and Efficacy" by Susan H. McLeod, "Pre-Text and Composing" by Stephen P. Witte, "The Place of World Englishes in Composition: Pluralization Continued" by A. Suresh Canagarajah, "Composition’s Imagined Geographies: The Politics of Space in the Frontier, City, and Cyberspace" by Nedra Reynolds, "Toward a Linear Rhetoric of the Essay" by Richard L. Larson, and "The Why of Cognition: Emotion and the Writing Process" by William Stafford.

You can read the full article here: doi.org/10.58680/ccc...

The second visualization shows the betweeness centrality of each article in the network, which shows the articles that act as bridges between other clusters of nodes in the network. These serve as "points of control" because, without them, the network would fall apart.

The first visualization shows the eigenvector centrality of each article in the network, which is determined by the number of citations the article has received. The higher the eigenvector centrality, the larger the node.

These visualizations, from my article recently published in CCC, shows a citation network of articles published in CCC that cite other CCC articles.

In network science, there are multiple ways to determine the "center" of a network.

Can someone please tell me how I can write the last 15 pages of my dissertation? Because the procrastination has never been stronger.

Young woman in professional attire giving a presentation in front of an audience

Selfie of five young professionals with conference lanyards posing in front of a blank presentation screen.

View of downtown Cleveland from tall building at night. Lots of tall buildings and bright lights.

#4C26 is in the books! I had such a great time catching up with old friends, meeting new ones, and seeing everyone's amazing work.

Thank you to everyone who came out on Saturday afternoon to attend my session!

Here are the slides if you missed it: mariepruittportfolio.wordpress.com/presentations/

Thanks for sharing, @jasontham.bsky.social !

5y ago, I took my first rhet/comp class and decided I wanted to publish in College Composition and Communication

2y ago, I submitted my manuscript

1.5y ago, I received a revise and resubmit

Today, you can read this (open access!) article in the latest issue of CCC:

doi.org/10.58680/ccc...

Screenshot of conference program: "Visualizing the Disciplinary Knowledge Networks of Rhetoric and Writing Studies Journals. Supported by a series of static and interactive visualizations, this presentation offers a view of the citational and institutional networks through which scholarly journals produce the knowledge of the field. By exploring a map of 33 scholarly journals and a network of citations within College Composition and Communication, attendees will develop their understanding of the conversations happening within their corner of the field. Room 10 (Exhibit Hall Level C2) Presenter: Marie Pruitt, University of Louisville, KY"

So excited to be presenting some of the findings from my dissertation at #4C26

If you're interested in disciplinarity, scholarly journals and publishing, or the networks of writing, stop by to check it out on Saturday at 12:30pm!

Work desk with a laptop showing a word document, papers and books, and a brown tabby cat sleepily looking off to the side.

Dissertation revision day vibes 🐱

My Reflections on the 2025-26 Academic Job Market Some reflections on the 2025-26 academic job market, my job market stats, and a few pieces of advice for future job seekers.

Being the data dork I am, I collected some interesting stats from my 2025-26 academic job search and put them together in a blog post with some of my thoughts on the market this year:

mariepruittportfolio.wordpress.com/2026/02/15/m...

Print copy of the fall 2025 issue of the Composition Studies journal featuring a raccoon hiding in a tree.

I will always prefer to read print.

Don’t forget to support your favorite independent journals!

There is a rightwing student network targeting faculty who engage in research and teaching or simply exist in ways that contradicts their political views and we have to develop strategies to avoid falling into their traps while collectively organizing to protect academic freedom from their attacks

So honored to be included in The Emerging Voices interview series from the @wacclearinghouse.bsky.social! Thank you Zakery Muñoz for putting this together!

You can watch the full interview here: wacclearinghouse.org/media/interv...

Tree with a birdhouse covered in a light dusting of snow.

Stuck-at-home-nothing-to-do-but-work-on-my-dissertation weather.

I swear, no matter how much I write, my current dissertation draft remains 88 pages long.

Print edition of a scholarly article titled “Journals as Disciplinary Archives” by Marie Pruitt

Saw my work in print for the first time today. Very cool feeling 😎

Today I broke out the watercolors and painted a picture…and it was actually FOR my dissertation, not a procrastination method.

It’s so hard to stay motivated during the fall semester when you’re on the job market because it really feels like you’re sending your applications into the void.

Please tell me it gets better? 😭

Interesting that we’re seeing ads for ChatGPT now.

It’s almost like they over-promised and under-delivered and are having trouble finding people who are actually willing to pay to use it.

I actually don't really care if AI is useful/interesting/good for some things in education actually - it is besides these things clearly a big problem already that maybe need listing yet again:

Today I graded my students’ resume writing assignments and found out that one of them has an op-ed in the local newspaper, another has a pretty successful YouTube channel, and another has A WIKIPEDIA PAGE.

They are so damn cool, ya’ll.

a black keyboard with red keys sits on a desk ALT: a black keyboard with red keys sits on a desk

*The 2025-26 RhetMap has goes live*

Every poor soul on the job market this year:

The millennial tax for gen z

If there’s one thing I’ve learned from living in the Midwest, it’s always keep an umbrella with you no matter what the forecast says.

A Tree Grows in Brooklyn. I actually did read that as an undergrad living in Brooklyn

At the last minute she turned and said "enjoy your wedding," then walked out the door.

But then, a few seconds later, she stuck her head back in and said:

"Actually, no. I don't want the last thing I say to you to be about your husband. I hope you have a great summer!"

What a legend.

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When the class ended, I said my goodbyes, trying my best not to get choked up, and the students started to leave.

The last one out the door was a female student who I particularly enjoyed teaching and chatting with at the end of each class.

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