Welcome to HokiesWrite.com, an online resource for faculty, students, and others who share an interest in Virginia Tech’s University Writing Program. The program’s leadership team, in consultation with the University Writing Program Committee, program instructional faculty, and the Department of English, curate this site with the goal of giving visibility and circulation to the best of what the program has to offer. Each year, the University Writing Program provides instruction, guidance, and support to nearly 7,600 Hokies in 380 sections of ENGL1105 and ENGL1106, a foundational two-course sequence designed to orient one and all to effective writing practices in and beyond the university.
Latest Entries
- October 2024 UWP Announcements
- Featured Blog Post: “Virginia Tech Panel Presents at WEAB 2024 in Salt Lake City” by Lin Li (PhD-Candidate), Gideon KwawuKumey (2nd Year PhD Student), and Dr. Shakil Rabbi (Assistant Professor)
- September 2024 UWP Announcements
- Everyone’s an Author: English 1105 and 1106 Transition Google Documents to move from Understanding Rhetoric to Everyone’s an Author
- Featured Blog Post: “On the Importance of Signing Your Babouches: Teaching First-Year Writing” by Arianna (Ari) Corradi
- April 2024 UWP Announcements
- March 2024 UWP Announcements
- February 2024 UWP Announcements
- December 2023 UWP Announcements
- Featured Blog Post: “This Body of Mine: On Being Fat in the Writing Classroom” by Amanda Marzolf
Initiatives and Points of Pride
- Antiracist Teaching Resources
- Hokies Spotlight: Faculty and GTA Accomplishments
- University Writing Program Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Statement
- University Writing Program Educational Technologies for Writing Instruction Statement
- Distinguished Student Writing
- 2023 Outstanding Teaching Portfolios
- University Writing Program (UWP) Doctoral Fellowship
We’re continuously updating HokiesWrite.com with materials we think will be helpful and informative for instructors, students, staff and administrators, alumni, and colleagues at other universities. Our updates aspire to be responsive to you, so if there is something you would like to see added or a particular question you have that is not addressed here–yet!–we hope you’ll consider reaching out via email to jmengert -AT- vt.edu.