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
In late June, the Council of Writing Program Administrators (CWPA) and Conference on College Composition and Communication (CCCC) released a joint statement in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Broadly, the statement reaffirms well-established practices and priorities in effective writing instruction, situating those practices and priorities in the context of today’s global health crisis. The statement … Read more
At the end of each semester it’s nice to take a moment to look back and reflect, whether in general or through an assignment like ENGL 1105’s reflection essay. In this post I am going to give a brief overview of reflection and provide some resources for better understanding reflection and bringing it into the … Read more
Recently developed by Dr. Chris Lindgren, faculty in rhetoric and writing at Virginia Tech, As It So Happens aggregates into an ever-updated list the latest of what has been published in selected academic journals related to rhetoric and composition/writing studies and professional and technical communication. As It So Happens bears out a design comparable to … Read more
We’re excited (and overdue for posting!) about new materials available on HokiesWrite.com. The program leadership team has recently set into place the following, all in service of modest curricular adjustments: Textbook: Learn more about our Fall 2019 adoption of a VT custom Understanding Rhetoric (2nd ed.) Program outcomes: Learn more about the program’s revised outcomes, … Read more
The spring semester has only just begun at Virginia Tech, so it’s a terrific time to be thinking about the subtleties of assignment design. The Dartmouth Institute for Writing and Rhetoric offers the best resources available to guide and support the assignment design process. Consider, for example, this, the first of eight suggestions for crafting … Read more