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A panel discussing methods for writing about history featuring three UC Davis academics:

Dr. Kathryn Olmsted, Chair of History Department, author of Right Out of California: The 1930s and the Big Business Roots of Modern Conservatism

Dr. Jillian Azevedo, University Writing Program, Writing in the Disciplines: History

Scientists Discuss Professional Writing

Thursday, October 15, 12:30-2:30 in Voorhies 126

(Brown Bag Lunch Event)

Join the University Writing Program’s Writing Across the Curriculum faculty in a discussion with four of UCD’s professional scientists. Speakers will share insights about the genres and writing styles most common in their respective fields and positions. Come hear about the writing skills needed for careers in the sciences.

This program is open to everyone, especially faculty interested in writing and communication for science undergraduates.

These colleges typically make the writing process a priority at all levels of instruction and across the curriculum. Students are encouraged to produce and refine various forms of writing for different audiences in different disciplines.

In spring 2015, we invited college presidents, chief academic officers, deans of students and deans of admissions from more than 1,500 schools to nominate up to 10 institutions with stellar examples of writing in the disciplines

This year's Prized Writing Ceremony will take place October 19th in the AGR Room of the Alumni Center.  Reception begins at 5:30.  The public is welcome

During one of her Business Writing courses two years ago, UWP Lecturer Lisa Sperber assigned a community-based proposal assignment for which students were required to propose a solution for a situation they deemed problematic.

University Writing Program Lecturer Karma Waltonen served as the sole editor for the recently-published collection of essays titled "Margaret Atwood’s Apocalypses," which features essays by established and new Atwood scholars on Atwood’s poetry, "The Handmaid’s Tale," and the famous MaddAddam trilogy. Through this collection, readers will encounter ways to trace the theme of apocalypse through decades of Atwood’s work, and lenses through which to view various fictional apocalypses, including disability studies, theology, and ecofeminism.

In January, Assistant Professor Rebekka Andersen joined the Advisory Council of the Center for Information-Development Management (CIDM), an organization of information-development, training, and support managers from around the world (http://www.infomanagementcenter.com). The Advisory Council is made up of a select group of members invited to advise the CIDM on the issues and activities that are most valuable and timely to professionals within the field of information development.

University Writing Program Professor Dana Ferris is the founding Editor-in-Chief of a new peer-reviewed journal, the Journal of Response to Writing. Hosted online at Brigham Young University, the first issue has gone live and can be accessed for free here:

http://journalrw.org/index.php/jrw/issue/current

University Writing Program Lecturer Elyse Lord will be co-presenting on project-based learning at the 6th Biannual Reading and Writing across the Curriculum Conference at CSU Sacramento on April 17. Lord's presentation focuses on the use of multimedia projects in classrooms and how these projects help students develop literacy skills.

More presentation details are available below.

Digital Showcase: Project-Based Learning across the Disciplines

Congratulations, Karma!

University Writing Program Lecturer Greg Glazner was recently interviewed for a story in Apercus Quarterly about his poetry, his music and much more. Glazner also has a poem in the new anthology Clash by Night, published by CityLit Books in Baltimore.

Read the entire Glazner interview here:

http://www.apercusquarterly.com/Apercus_Quarterly/Interview.html

University Writing Program Continuing Lecturer Laurie Glover's partnership with the Department of Civil Engineering received mention in The Davis Enterprise on Wednesday, April 22. Students in Glover's section of UWP 102E, Writing in Engineering, are simultaneously enrolled in Prof. Deb Niemeier's senior design course, both of which are focused on the potential development of a local property.