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
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