ENGL 1105 Pedagogical Materials
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.
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Virginia Tech Panel Presents at WEAB 2024 in Salt Lake City
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.
February 2024 UWP Announcements
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
December 2023 UWP Announcements
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
November 2023 UWP Announcements
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
This body of mine: On being fat in the writing classroom
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
October 2023 UWP Announcements
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 2023 Announcements
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
July 2023 Announcements
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
Joint Statement in Response to the COVID-19 Pandemic
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