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.
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
Brown Bag Speaker Series Our final Brown Bag of the semester will be on Wednesday, November 8th at 12:15 in Shanks 370/380. This session will be a follow up to our talk on September 20th with Dale Pike, with the focus being on AI in the Writing Classroom. This session will be a lot more informal, in which … Read more
September 20th Brown Bag Speaker Series On Wednesday, September 20th, from 12:15-1:15, in Shanks 370/380, the UWP is leading a session on AI in the writing classroom. Dale Pike, Associate Vice Provost for TLOS, will be leading the session, and we encourage everyone to come, especially if you know little to nothing about AI, as this session is … Read more
Pathways As many of you saw this summer, Pathways is taking a break this academic year; this means you won’t have to submit data from your classes this year, which I’m sure is a relief to us all. Textbook distribution I put hard copies of the 2023-2024 edition of Understanding Rhetoric in your mailboxes on … 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