UNIVERSITY WRITING PROGRAM

THE POINT

Summer Quarter 2007

     
     

Guest Lectures


Victor Villanueva's "Rhetorics of the New Racism"

Stuart Selber's "Technology & the Human Intellect: Computer Literacies and Development of the Creative Mind"

Anne Wysocki and Dennis Lynch's "The Dismissed: On the Pasts and Potential Futures of Emotion and the Visual in Writing Studies"
 

Writing Program "Writer's Studio" Events



A Conversation with Victor Villanueva

Conversations with Anne Wysocki and Dennis Lynch

   

Teaching Writing Tips

Identifying and Prioritizing Writing Strengths and Weaknesses
Doug Hesse

 



Upcoming Speakers

Open Mic Poetry & Prose Night -- Thursday, Sept. 20,
     Sidelines Pub, Driscoll

Bob Yagelski -- Monday, Sept. 24
Cheryl Glenn -- Thursday, Sept. 27
Scott Blackwood -- Wednesday, Oct. 3
Paul Matsuda -- Thursday, Oct. 18
Michael Palmquist -- January

Upcoming Conferences

Writing Across the Curriculum Conference --
     Submission Deadline Sept. 28

Feminism(s) and Rhetoric(s) Conference--Oct. 4-6, Little Rock
International Writing Center Association --
     Submission Deadline Nov. 1
NCTE Annual Convention -- Nov. 15-18, New York
Literacies for All Summer Institute --
     Submission Deadline Dec. 18
Who Owns Writing: A Conference on the Future of Rhetoric
     and Composition, Submission Deadline Jan. 10, 2008

Program Profiles

Geoff Stacks

Writing Program Instructor,
Literature PhD

Heather Martin

Writing Program Instructor,
Creative Writing PhD

Richard Colby

Writing Program Instructor,
Rhetoric and Writing PhD

   Faculty Writing & Scholarship


Carol Samson
-- "Illustrations in Black and White: the
Dialectics of Seeing in Orhan Pamuk's Istanbul,"
Popular Culture Conference, in Boston, April 3-7, 2007
Eliana Schonberg -- "Making Space for Collaboration,"
International Writing Centers Association Conference

in Houston, TX, April 12-14, 2007
Linda Tate and Heather Martin -- 1133 sections hosted
the first annual Food Fair Spring 2007
John Tiedmann -- "Public Rhetorics and Permanent War,"
Fifth Annual Meeting of the Cultural Studies Association,
at Portland State University, Portland, OR, April, 2007
     -- "Of Publicity and Privation, or Cultural Studies as Public Criticism," Cultural Studies Now, at the University
of East London, July, 2007
     -- will attend attend the Rhetoric Society Summer Institute, at   at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY, June, 2007
 

Student Writing & Scholarship

Writing 1133

Carol Samson's Class: Project Homeless Connect
Ashton Lurs [PDF]
Kent McKendry [PDF]

Matt Hill's Class:
Tuyen Bui: "Assimilation," Case Study

John Tiedmann's Class:
Sam McKinstry: Assorted Poems


Richard Colby's Class:
Matt Bigelow et al: "Part-time Jobs and their Implications on
College Students,"
[PDF] Scientific Research Report
Kyle Block, "The Valet Tipping System," [PDF] Formulating
a System
 

Writing Tips

Writing in the Sciences:
Resources for Students

Linda Tate



Writing Program

Rebekah Shultz Colby, July 2007

 

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