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 Women’s 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:
--
A Service Learning Blog: DenveRhetor

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

Heather Martin: The Subvertisement
--
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.
--
"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-
négritud Dialogue and the Fiction of Rosario Ferré,” First-annual Negritud Conference of the Revista de Estudios Afro-
Latinoamericanos
, Atlanta, March 12-14.


Writing Program

     Rebekah Shultz Colby, March 2009