Melissa Bender and Karma Waltonen's edited collection, Writing Assignments in Context, has been accepted by McFarland for publication in 2016. The volume includes twenty original, classroom-tested writing assignments, plus supplementary materials to help readers incorporate the assignments into their own courses.
Laurie Glover was one of 72 international poets chosen to attend the 2015 Squaw Valley Community of Writers Poetry Workshop, where she participated in workshops with poets such as Sharon Olds and Robert Hass.
Two digital rhetoric scholars from CSU Long Beach, Sarah J. Arroyo and Bahareh Alaei, will be visiting Thursday, January 21 and giving a workshop in 126 Voorhies at 4:10 PM. "In this interactive workshop, we will be presenting, discussing, and then demonstrating the approach we have been calling 'producing as a listener.' Participants will see how the symbiotic relationship between written and video scholarship can help enrich interpretations of textual ideas and alter the composer’s perspective of the work."
Associate Professor Sarah Perrault and four other members of the UC North Bioethics Collaboratory have had an article published in the American Journal of Bioethics in December. The article, “Editing" genes: A case study about how language matters in bioethics," argues for more precise language use in discussions of genome modification technologies.
Emily Alameida, who is completing an Individual Major in Technical Communication through the University Writing Program, has been awarded the Dr. Kenneth M. Gordon Memorial Scholarship sponsored by the Northern California Chapters of the Society for Technical Communication (STC). The scholarship includes a cash award and a complimentary student membership in the STC, the world's largest and oldest professional association dedicated to the advancement of the field of technical communication.
Since 2006, the University Writing Program has invited to the campus nationally and internationally known writers to speak about their work. We intend our workshops to bring together faculty, students, and members of the broader community in a series of discussions around the craft of writing and the composition of particular books by our authors.
Author Sarah Vowell (Unfamiliar Fishes, The Wordy Shipmates, Assassination Vacation, NPR's This American Life) discusses her non-fiction writing on American history, including her new book, Lafayette in the Somewhat United States. Book signing will follow her interview.
Free and open to the public, especially students interested in journalism, history, and creative non-fiction. Seating limited.
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
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.
