UNIVERSITY WRITING PROGRAM

THE POINT

Spring 2009

     
     

News


Cultivating Puzzlement: Teachers Who Transfer from the High School to College
Doug Hesse

DU Writing Program Faculty as Presenters at Her Story, Our Story the 14th Annual DU Womens Conference
Carol Samson
 

Faculty Profiles


Eric Fretz
Linda Tate



Tom Knecht
Linda Tate

 

Students Want to Know


Students Want to Know:
Why Do I Need to Buy this Expensive Textbook?

Heather Martin

 

Student Writing

 
WRIT 1122
Geoffrey Bateman and John Tiedemann:
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A Service Learning Blog: DenveRhetor

Jennifer Campbell: Position Statement
-- Karina Benziger's Position Statement
-- Danner Close's Position Statement

Heather Martin: The Subvertisement
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Jayne Illovsky, "Following in the Wrong Footsteps" [PDF]

WRIT 1133
Rebekah Shultz Colby: Research Article
-- Kevin Harris, "Using Facebook in the Classroom" [PDF]
 



Upcoming Conferences and Events

Upcoming Speakers
Patricia Bizzell, Tuesday, April 19

Upcoming Conferences

PCA/ACA Conference, April 8-11, New Orleans, LA
CCCC, March 17-20, 2010, Louisville, KY
     Submission Deadline:
May 8, 2009
Technical Communication Summit, May 3-6, Atlanta, GA
Computers and Writing, June 18-21, UC, Davis, CA
WPA Summer Workshop and Conference, July 12-19, Minneapolis, MN
International Society for the History of Rhetoric, July 22-26, Montreal, Canada

Summer Institutes
Digital Media and Composition, June 4-16, 2009
  The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH
Writing Center Summer Institute, July 12-17
  Temple University, Philadelphia, PA

Program Profiles


Interview with Linda Tate, Author of Power in the Blood: A Family Narrative
Carol Samson



John Tiedemann at the Agora
Carol Samson

 

Writing Program Hosts Open Mic Night
Kamila Kinyon

 

     Writing Faculty Scholarship


Jennifer Campbell --
"Getting Creative with Research Writing," CCCC, March 11-14.

Kelli Custer --
"Rocking the Boat: Strategies for Teaching with Required Texts," CCCC, March 11-14.

Richard Colby, David Daniels, Rebekah Shultz Colby -- "
Fluidity, Reflexivity, and Pet Squirrels: Rethinking research and writing in the disciplines," CCCC, March 11-14.

Doug Hesse --
Creating Nonfiction: A Guide and Anthology. Becky Bradway and Doug Hesse. Boston: Bedford/St. Martin's, 2009.
---. The Simon and Schuster Handbook for Writers. Lynn Troyka and Doug Hesse. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Pearson, 2009.
---. "Afterword: From Plainchant to Polyphony." In Ostergard, Ludwig, and Nugent. (See Ludwig, below.)
---. "Who Owns Writing?" The Norton Book of Composition Studies. Ed. Susan Miller. New York: Norton, 2009.
---. "Personal Interests, Professional Needs, and Research." Roundtable on Graduate Student Research. CCCC. San Francisco. 13 March 2009.
---. Sustainability after the Honeymoon: Lessons from an Innovative Program in its Third Year." CCCC. San Francisco. 12 March 2009.

Jeff Ludwig --
Transforming English Studies: New Voices in an Emerging Genre. Lori Ostergard, Jeff Ludwig, and Jim Nugent, Eds. West Lafayette, IN: Parlor Press, 2009.

Alba Newmann --
"Lightening Bolt Literacies: Kenneth Burke's
Zigzag Flashes of Lightening," CCCC, March 11-14.

Jennifer Novak -- "User Agency and the Design of Medical Technologies," ATTW, March 2009.

Eliana Schonberg -- "
Mapping Routes to Writing
Center/Community Partnerships, "International Writing Centers Association Conference, Oct. 30-Nov. 1, 2008.
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"Consultant Training in a Post-Process Writing Center,"
International Writing Centers Association Conference,
Oct. 30-Nov. 1, 2008.
-- "Training Writing Consultants to be Visual Rhetoricians,"
CCCC, March 11-14.

Mindy Williams --
Eccentric Mythologies: The Mestizaje-
ngritud Dialogue and the Fiction of Rosario Ferr, First-annual Negritud Conference of the Revista de Estudios Afro-
Latinoamericanos
, Atlanta, March 12-14.


Writing Program

     Rebekah Shultz Colby, March 2009

 

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