I’ve updated the AI tab, which is under Teaching Resources. I’ve included the slide deck from the 11.4.24 Brown Bag, which contains the resources we went through during the session. I’ll continue to update this tab as materials become available. Please send me anything you find helpful as we navigate AI use (jmengert@vt.edu).
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.
UWP Outstanding GTA Award I’m happy to announce that Ruth Aitken has won the UWP Outstanding GTA Award. Ruth’s dedication to her students and pedagogy was very clear to the UWP committee, and we are thrilled to present this award to her. Please offer her your congratulations when you see her! April 17 Brown Bag On Wednesday, … Read more
Example Assignments As we continue to update Hokieswrite.com, we’re looking for more “pre-work” for 1106—that is, do you have any student proposals, research topic brainstorming activities, scaffolding assignments, etc. you could send our way? We appreciate all the example projects that have come in this semester and last, and it would be great if we … Read more
Programmatic Textbook Based on the survey results from November 2023, we’ve decided to change textbooks for 2024-2025. The leadership team talked through the survey results with the UWP Committee, and after going through some options, the new textbook will be Everyone’s an Author (a Norton textbook—this also means that our publisher is changing). Yesterday, everyone teaching FYW … Read more
Distinguished Student Writing As a reminder, we are again collecting student examples for the Distinguished Student Writing section on Hokieswrite. If you have papers that you wish to nominate, please follow the steps found here: https://hokieswrite.com/distinguished-writing/; we are in particular need of Worknet examples. However, please send on any exemplary examples that you have! Canvas Shells … Read more
Programmatic Survey Last week, I sent an email to everyone teaching in the UWP, asking you to complete a survey about key programmatic issues. The survey closes this Friday, November 10th at midnight. If you haven’t already taken the survey, I would greatly appreciate your feedback. As a reminder, if you complete the survey, four respondents … Read more
By Amanda Marzolf I’ve never not been aware of my body—the space it takes up, the narrative it implies, the ways I am read like a stolen diary ripped from a child’s hands in the cafeteria (I can still feel the burn of humiliation when my entire class found out about the boy I liked, … Read more