UNIVERSITY WRITING PROGRAM

THE POINT

Winter 2008

The All Blake All the Time Issue

   
     

Guest Lecturers


Paul Kei Matsuda:
 Multilingual Writers in the University:
Some Strategies for Teachers
Rebekah Shultz Colby



Janet Bland
Carol Samson

Scott Blackwood
Linda Tate
 

Writer's Studio Event


A Conversation with Paul Kei Matsuda
Rebekah Shultz Colby
 

Faculty Profile




An Interview with Donald Stedman
Kamila Kinyon

 

Student Profile


The Write Stuff: Jessica Lopez
Heather Martin
 

Students Want to Know

Does Length Matter?
Heather Martin



News


Our DU Writing Program has won the CCCC's Outstanding Writing Program award!
 

Upcoming Conferences and Events

Writing Faculty Scholarship


Blake Sanz Featured in Yellow Pine Reading Series
                                           Linda Tate



Kamila Kinyon -- "Teaching Environmental Rhetoric and
Research in Freshman Composition Courses," Southwest
Texas Popular Culture and American Culture Associations
Conference
, Albuquerque, NM, February 2008.
Jeff Ludwig -- "Popular Front Cinema and Hemingway's Style
in For Whom the Bell Tolls," American Literature Association
Conference
. Boston, MA, May 2007.
Carol Samson
-- "After Tea: Adapting Virginia Woolf's A
Writer's Diary for Stage Performance," Popular Culture
Conference.
San Francisco, CA, March 2008.
More on Carol's accomplishments . . .
John Tiedemann -- received a grant from DU's Service-Learning
Faculty Scholars Program to help start Writing in Action.
More on John's accomplishments . . .
Kelli Custer -- "The Reality of Steel and Glass: Using Organic Architecture to help Students Rebuild the Tightly Structured
House of Writing." Conference on College Composition and Communication. New Orleans, LA, April 2008.
Alba Newmann -- "One must have a mind of . . . Conference
on College Composition and Communication
. New Orleans,
LA, April 2008.
Jennifer Novak -- Negotiated Technologies: Eroding
Professional Boundaries During Medical Training. Sixth
Biennial Feminism(s) and Rhetoric(s) Conference
. Little Rock,
AR, October 2005.
-- Shaping Future Biomedical Practices: Toward Kairotic
Tools. Conference on College Composition and
Communication
. New Orleans, LA, April 2008.

Open Mic Night




'Twas the Night Before Halloween . . .
Kamila Kinyon
 

Writing Faculty Profiles

Mindy Williams
PhD in Literature

Blake Sanz
MFA in Fiction

Rebekah Shultz Colby
PhD in Rhetoric and Writing

Teaching Tips for Writing

Using Demographic Marketing Strategies
to Teach Audience
Heather Martin


Writing Program

Rebekah Shultz Colby, January 2008

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