Jenna Zan Assessment: We will be doing a formal assessment of the writing program in the next year. We’ll collect data from ENGL 1106 in Spring 2026 and from ENGL 1105 in Fall 2026. I’ll share more information soon about the data collection process for 1106 in the coming weeks, so please keep an eye out for … Read more
Fall Brown Bags: The two UWP Brown Bags this semester will be on Monday, October 6th and Monday, November 3rd in Shanks 370/380 at 12:15. On Monday, October 6th, our focus will be on workshopping terrible lesson plans (“Epic Fails, Lasting Lessons”), so bring your worst lesson plan ever (or, for a more positive approach, a topic you’ve always … Read more
Looking to refresh your ENGL 1105 curriculum? Check out this amazing archive of assignments, activities, and other supplemental documents developed by PhD students/GTAs Abigail Robinson and Katie Long.
Pathways If your course was chosen by Pathways for assessment, you should have received many emails from their office; the data is due by May 16th. If you have any questions, please contact Molly Hall (mrhall@vt.edu) or Jenni Gallagher (jennigal@vt.edu); you can also contact Jenna Zan (jenzan@vt.edu). Hokieswrite Updates and 1105 Because so many people … Read more
1105 Brown Bag Our final Brown Bag of the semester will be on Monday, April 7th at 12:15 via Zoom. Our focus will be on teaching 1105 since many of you are assigned this course for the fall and have not taught this course in years (or perhaps ever). Therefore, Jaclyn Drapeau, Sunshine Passwater, Shakil Rabbi, and … Read more
Pathways If your course was selected for Pathways data collection, you would have received a couple of email notifications by this point. Jenna and I will follow up with emails about this process later in the semester, closer to when data is due. Spring Office Hours Jenna has updated hokieswrite.com with the spring office hours … Read more
Brown Bags First, thank you to everyone who came out to our Brown Bag on Wednesday, and special thanks to Patrick Greene, Julia Unger, and Amanda Marzolf, who provided terrific assignments for 1105 and 1106 using Everyone’s an Author. If you couldn’t make it to the talk, I posted the Google Slides under the Everyone’s an Author tab … Read more
Brown Bags Our Brown Bag sessions this semester are on Wednesday, October 9th and Monday, November 4th at 12:15 in Shanks 380. For the session on the 9th, we wanted to check in with the new textbook and see how people are using it once the first projects are submitted. This talk will focus on both 1105 and 1106 and … Read more
…there is always one person whom we have helped in ways we can’t even imagine; in ways that they themselves might realize only many years later, as they put together the pieces of a life to make order out of chaos, to remind themselves what is important and how they want to live.
Talking with interested audiences – especially those that speak the same disciplinary language – lets us test out our ideas and research through conversations and learn more about what we are trying to understand through our scholarship.