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WRaCS Alumna Mary Stewart Publishes Article in CCC
WRaCS Alumna Mary K Stewart has published the article "How and What Students Learn in Hybrid and Online FYC" in the June 2022 volume of College Composition and Communication. Mary and three co-authors conducted a multi-institutional study to examine the difference between students' perceptions of student-teacher relationships in fully online and hybrid first-year composition courses.
WRaCS Alumna Michal Reznizki Publishes Article in College Composition and Communication
WRaCS Alumna Michal Reznizki has published the article "What Can We Learn from the Online Representation of Our Graduate Programs’ Curricula? A Comprehensive Online Survey of PhD Programs in Rhetoric and Composition" in the December 2021 volume of College Composition and Communication. Michal examined the online representation of the ninety existing PhD programs in rhetoric and composition in the United States and collected information on the courses offered in the programs, their home departments, and the programs’ mission statements.
Trish Serviss Publishes Article in Writing Program Administration Journal
Trish Serviss's article co-authored with Julia Voss and Meghan Sweeney, "A Heuristic to Promote Inclusive and Equitable Teaching in Writing Programs," was published in the Spring 2021 edition of the journal Writing Program Administration. The article presents a heuristic WPAs can use to engage their faculty in collaborative, peer-based analysis, dialogue, and revision of writing course design (embodied in syllabi) to study and strengthen the programs’ inclusivity and equity related to literacy standards, assessment, and accessibility.
Dan Melzer's coauthored book Sustainable WAC wins AWAC Best Book Award
Dan Melzer's book Sustainable WAC, coauthored with Michelle Cox and Jeff Galin, has won the 2021 Association for Writing Across the Curriculum/WAC Clearinghouse award for Best Authored Book.
Dan Melzer Coauthors 3rd Edition of Engaging Ideas with John Bean
Dan Melzer has joined John Bean as the coauthor of a new edition of Engaging Ideas: The Professor's Guide to Integrating Writing, Critical Thinking, and Active Learning in the Classroom, by Jossey-Bass. New to the 3rd edition is a chapter on alternatives to traditional grading, a chapter on student self-assessment and peer response, and increased attention to multilingual student writers.
Kathie Gossett Publishes Chapter in the Book Shaping the Dissertation
Kathie Gossett has a co-authored book chapter in a new collection entitled, “Shaping the Dissertation: Knowledge Production in the Arts and Humanities.” The chapter is "#DigiDiss: A Project Exploring Digital Dissertation Policies, Practices and Archiving,” and it covers a 4 year long project funded in large part by the NEH Office of Digital Humanities to develop an archiving system for born-digital dissertations.
UWP1 Student Natasong Yuan Wins Lang Prize
Natasong Yuan, a student from Jason Hockaday's UWP1 course, won first place in the 2021 UC Davis Library's Lang Prize for student research writing in the Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences. Natasong's research project is a discourse community analysis of the American Society of Botanical Artists. You can find her analysis at https://www.library.ucdavis.edu/lang-prize/winners/natasong-yuan/.
Brit Kelly Publishes Book Loving Fanfiction
Brit Kelly has published the book Loving Fanfiction: Exploring the Role of Emotion in Online Fandoms with Routledge. Loving Fanfiction explores emotion within the context of fandoms, specifically online fanfiction. Through exploring fans’ narratives about themselves and the fanwork they produce and consume, Brit theorizes how identity, cognition, emotion, the body, and embodiment come together in literacy development and practices.
Prized Writing Winner Wesley Cohen's Essay Reprinted in Norton Textbook
Writing Across the Curriculum Seminar for Faculty
Nathaniel Williams Discusses The Mandalorian on Mark Twain Studies Podcast
Nathaniel Williams appeared on the American Vandal podcast from the Center for Mark Twain Studies. Host Matthew Seybold invited him to discuss thematic and ideological connections between Twain and the Disney+ Star Wars series The Mandalorian, which was called “Project Huckleberry” while in development.
Dan Melzer Publishes Article on Peer Response in Journal of Response to Writing
Dan Melzer's article "Placing Peer Response at the Center of the Response Construct" appears in volume 6 of Journal of Response to Writing. You can find the article at https://journalrw.org/index.php/jrw/issue/view/13
Brad Henderson's UWP102E Featured on Global Affairs Website
Brad Henderson's UWP102E: Writing in the Disciplines (Engineering) is featured on the Global Affairs website. Brad's students are highlighted by Global Affairs for their projects working with global industries on communication related to using engineering to solve problems around the world.
Dana Ferris' Article to Appear in Writing and Pedagogy
Joseph Horton's Essay Published in Prism International
Joseph Horton’s essay, “A Little Town,” about growing up in Littleton, Colorado and writing about school shootings, appears in the fall issue of PRISM international.
https://prismmagazine.ca/2020/10/23/prism-fall-issue-59-1-vulgar/
UWP Faculty Become Teacher Leaders with the A3WP
What Can I Do With My Professional Writing Minor?
Read the full article by Writing and Editing Intern Oliver Tseng:
https://www.ucdavis.edu/minors/professional-writing/what-can-i-do-with-my-professional-writing-minor
Steve Thompson Publishes Book on Law and Ethics in the Age of Artificial Intelligence
Steve Thompson's third edited reference book on emerging tech, Machine Law, Ethics, and Morality in the Age of Artificial Intelligence, has been published by IGI Global. The book is a collection of innovative research that presents holistic and transdisciplinary approaches to the field of machine ethics and morality and offers up-to-date and state-of-the-art perspectives on the advancement of definitions, terms, policies, philosophies, and relevant determinants related to human-machine ethics.
Andrea Ross's Essay "Double Vision" Published in Parks and Points
Andrea Ross's essay, "Double Vision," was a finalist for the Parks and Points essay contest. In this personal essay Andrea tells the story of a hike up Mount Humphreys that changed the path of her life. You can find the essay at https://www.parksandpoints.com/double-vision
Chris Thaiss and James Murphy Co-Edit New Edition of A Short History of Writing Instruction
Routledge has just published the new 4th edition of A Short History of Writing Instruction: From Ancient Greece to the Modern United States, co-edited by UWP emeritus professor Chris Thaiss and emeritus professor James J. Murphy, formerly of the English Department and the Department of Communication and Rhetoric.
Michael P. Montgomery Wins First Place in the Norma J. Lang Prize for Undergraduate Information Research
Michael P. Montgomery, a fourth-year marine and coastal science major (oceans and the Earth system emphasis) minoring in professional writing and history, received first place in the Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences category of this year’s Norma J. Lang Prize. The prize, named after and funded by the late UC Davis Professor Emerita of Botany, Norma J. Lang, is for undergraduate students whose research projects make extensive use of library resources and advance their understanding of the academic research process.
Melissa Bender and Karma Waltonen Publish Textbook
Melissa Bender and Karma Waltonen have published the textbook Who's Your Source? A Writer's Guide to Effectively Evaluating and Ethically Using Resources with Broadview Press.
Minor in Professional Writing at UC Davis!
Hear from recent graduates who completed the minor in professional writing at UC Davis! In this video, Anjali Bhat, former peer advisor for the minor, shares her experiences with UWP courses, UWP faculty, and professional writing internships. Special thanks to our video producers Joseph Nunez and Melanie Zelaya, interns for the Professional Writing Program, for coordinating the series and for their vision of featuring the good work of our amazing UC Davis students.
Dana Ferris and Amy Lombardi Publish Article in Journal of Writing Assessment
UWP Director Dana Ferris and DE PhD student Amy Lombardi published the article "Collaborative Placement of Multilingual Writers: Combining Formal Assessment and Self-Evaluation" in volume 13.1 of The Journal of Writing Assessment. They examines the results of a collaborative placement study involving students in UWP EMS courses.
What Can I Do With My Professional Writing Minor?
By Oliver Tseng, Writing and Editing Intern, Professional Writing Program
From cultivating skills to general interest, students select minors for many different reasons.
Lisa Klotz Wins Teaching Award
Joseph Horton Publishes Essay in Time Magazine
Joseph Horton published his essay "I Watched My Baby's First Ultrasound From My Car in a Parking Lot Across the Street" on April 13 on the Time website.
UWP Lectures Teach 10% of all First-Year Seminars in 2019
UWP Lecturers play a major role in UC Davis’s First-Year Seminar program. In Spring 2019, just over 10% of all first-year seminars offered at UC Davis were taught by UWP Unit 18 Lecturers. People who taught First-Year Seminars in 2019 include Sarah Faye, Erika I-Tremblay, Amy Clarke, Karma Waltonen, Andrea Ross, Bill Sewell, Andy Jones, Elisabeth Lore, Theresa Walsh, Jillian Azevedo, Pam Demory, Kathie Gossett, Lisa Sperber, Alison Bright, Katie Rodger, Ken Anderson, Heather Milton, Sophia Jin, Katie Arosteguy, and Agnes Stark.
Scott Herring's book Yellowstone's Lost Legend published
Scott Herring's book Yellowstone's Lost Legend: "Uncle" Billy Hoffer, Renaissance Man of the Early Park, has been published by Riverbend Publishing. The book is a biography of the wilderness guide, wildlife census taker, explorer, and expert skier, tracker, and naturalist Billy Hofer.
Amy Clarke Receives an Excellence in the Teaching of Study Abroad Award
Amy Clarke has received an Excellence in the Teaching of Study Abroad Award for 2020. A reception for Amy and other award winners will be held at the UC Davis International Center Multipurpose Room on Thursday, March 5th from 4:00-6:00pm. More information about the reception can be found at https://globalaffairs.ucdavis.edu/international-connections
Sasha Abramsky Interviewed by KPFK 90.7 FM in Los Angeles
Sasha Ambramsky was interviewed on the MIchael Slate show on KPFK in Los Angeles. Ambrasky discussed Donald Trump and war crimes. You can listen to the interview at https://archive.kpfk.org/mp3/kpfk_200117_100000michaelslate.mp3
Carl Whithaus publishes in Written Communication.
Carl Whithaus, along with co-authors Jonathan Alexander (UC Irvine) and Karen Lunsford (UC Santa Barbara), has published "Toward Wayfinding: A Metaphor for Understanding Writing Experiences" in Written Communication. The article maps out four major approaches to the study of writing experiences: (a) worlds apart, (b) literacy in the wild, (c) ecologies and networks, and (d) transfer. Building on these approaches, Alexander, Lunsford, and Whithaus propose the concept of wayfinding as an approach that resonates with recent work on lifelong learning and meaningful writing.
Marit MacArthur Publishes in The Paris Review
Marit MacArthur published the essay "John Ashbery's Reading Voice" in the Paris Review on October 29, 2019. The essay is part of the series "75 on 75," a special project from the 92nd Street Y in celebration of the Unterberg Poetry Center's seventy-fifth anniversary. The project invites contemporary authors to listen to a recording from the Poetry Center's archive and write a personal response. The essay can be found at https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2019/10/29/john-ashberys-reading-voi...
Dr. Susan Miller-Cochran to Present on Working with Multilingual Writers
Dr. Susan Miller-Cochran, Writing Program Director at the University of Arizona, will be giving the talk "Working with Multilingual Writers from First-Year to Upper Division" on Friday, December 6th from 10:00-11:15 in VH 126. The talk is presented by the University Writing Program's Conversations with Writers series. The talk is free and open to students and faculty both inside and outside of the UWP, and no RSVP is necessary.
Sasha Abramsky Interviewed by The Real News Network
Sasha Abramsky was interviewed by Marc Steiner of the Real News Network on October 10th in response to an article published by Sasha in The Nation. Sasha spoke with Steiner about Trump's threat to democracy and the way he is restructuring and undermining the country. The interview can be found at https://therealnews.com/stories/trump-alters-us-impeachment
UWP Staff, Student, and Faculty Present at the 2019 Council of Writing Program Administrators Conference
Trish Serviss, Stacy Wittstock, Beth Pearsall, Kayla Chao, and Kendon Kurzer presented the panel, "Leveraging Programmatic Tension for Action: A Case Study and Heuristic for WPAs" at the 2019 Council of Writing Program Administrators Conference. The panel examined WPA threshold concepts/practices of community formation as both a problem and heuristic for the UWP and shared a WPA heuristic focused on stakeholder relationships to assess writing communities, identify productive tensions to leverage, and prioritize resulting needed actions/opportunities.
Karma Waltonen Publishes Book on the Simpsons
Karma Waltonen, along with her co-editor Denise Du Verney, has published the edited collection The Simpsons' Beloved Springfield: Essays on the TV Series and Town That Are Part of Us All with McFarland & Company. This collection of new essays explores the many ways in which The Simpsons reflects everyday life through its exploration of gender roles, music, death, food politics, science and religion, anxiety, friendship and more.
Chris Thaiss Publishes Textbook on Science Writing
Broadview Press has published (August 2019) Professor Emeritus Chris Thaiss's new textbook, Writing Science in the Twenty-First Century. Based on his years of teaching science writing to STEM majors at UC Davis, the book, along with its companion website, is directed both to STEM students in courses like those taught in the UWP and to students, undergraduate and graduate, fulfilling writing assignments in STEM courses across disciplines.
Sarah Perrault Elected to the Council of the American Association for the Advancement of Science
Associate Professor Sarah Perrault has been elected to the Council of the Pacfiic Division of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). As a council member, she is responsible for helping shape the division's policies, develop activities, and organize and promote the annual conference. She was nominated and elected on the basis of her scholarly and pedagogical work on science writing, especially public science writing.
Dan Melzer publishes article in Praxis: A Writing Center Journal
Dan Melzer's article "Exploring White Privilege in Tutor Education” was published in volume 16 (2019) of Praxis: A Writing Center Journal. The article reports on action research on the influence of white privilege on tutors' attitudes in a writing center tutor education course. The article is published online at www.praxisuwc.com/162-melzer
Prized Writing Celebrates 30 Years of Student Writing
A news article about Prized Writing's 30th anniversary can be found on the Arts and Letters website at https://lettersandscience.ucdavis.edu/news/30-years-student-writing-cele.... A celebration event, open to the public, will begin at 6 p.m. in AGR Hall at the Walter A. Buehler Alumni Center. Chancellor Gary S. May will speak along with faculty and students. The most recent issue will be for sale ($17.72) at the event and at the campus bookstore.
Melissa Bender Publishes an Edited Collection in Routledge's Global Public History Series
Sasha Ambrasky Publishes Article on Asylum Seekers in The Nation
Sasha Ambrasky's article "Trump is Dumping Asylum Seekers on American Streets..." appears in the The Nation's July 15-22 issue. The article is available at https://www.thenation.com/article/immigrant-detention-trump-solidarity/
Student from Kathie Gossett's Technical Writing Course Featured in UC Davis Dateline
Cameron Fitzpatrick, a student in Kathie Gossett's Winter 2019 104T: Technical Writing, was featured in UC Davis' Dateline on June 11. Fitzpatrick used an assignment in Gossett's course to collect and visually present data on the health of his newborn child, who was losing weight. Based on the data, Fitzpatrick's doctor changed the treatment plan and the child returned to a healthy weight. In the Dateline article Fitzpatrick says about Gossett's assignment, "Looking back at the work I've done at Davis, it's the most important project I've done."
Sasha Abramsky Launches the The Abramsky Report
Sasha Ambramsky has launched a subscription-based weekly political column, The Abramsky Report, at http://www.theabramskyreport.com. Each month Sasha will write four articles focused on social justice issues, including poverty, immigrants rights, voting rights, access to housing and healthcare, and environmental issues. The yearly subscription fee is $19.95.
Sarah Perrault Publishes Article in Canadian Journal of Bioethics
In May of 2018 Sarah Perrault was an invited participant in a working group at the University of Alberta (Edmonton AB). The working group was on "Mapping the Emerging Issues in the Public Representation of Bioscience and Health Issues" and other working group members were specialists in law, applied ethics, psychiatry, applied linguistics, journalism, communication, and public policy.
Sarah Perrault Publishes Article in the Journal Perspectives in Biology and Medicine
Sarah Perrault published the article "New Metaphors for New Understandings of Genomes" with co-author Meaghan O'Keefe in the Winter 2019 edition of the journal Perspectives in Biology and Medicine. Perrault and O'Keefe offer a conceptual framework for developing, analyzing, critiquing, and choosing new metaphors of how genomes and bodies work that will help improve communication about genomes and genomic research.
Writing Ambassadors: exploring the intricacies of education
Program enables students to unlock new interests and career goals. Read the full article in the Aggie.
Pamela Demory's book Queer/Adaptation Published by Palgrave
Pamela Demory's edited collection of essays on the intersection of Queer theory and Adaptation theory, Queer/Adaptation, has been published as part of the Palgrave Studies in Adaptation and Visual Culture series. The authors of the essays in Queer/Adaptation theorize about the queerness of adaptation and use a variety of approaches, such as textual analysis, authorship, reception, genre analysis, performance, history, nationality, and production.
UC Davis faculty, students, and alumni present at CCCC 2019
Faculty in the University Writing Program, along with students and alumni of the Designated Emphasis in Writing, Rhetoric, and Composition studies, will participate in over 17 sessions at this year’s Conference on College Composition and Communication in Pittsburgh.
Questions I Dare Ask: Andrea Ross Interviews Author Amy Irvine
Amy Irvine wrote Desert Cabal: A New Season in the Wilderness for the 50th anniversary of Edward Abbey's iconic conservationist book, Desert Solitaire. In it, Irvine conducts a posthumous conversation with Abbey about issues of climate disruption, white privilege, sexism, racism, and some possible solutions to the tribalism of our current political situation.
Dan Melzer's Article "Building Sustainable WAC Programs" published in the WAC Journal
Dan Melzer's co-authored article with Michelle Cox and Jeff Galin, "Building Sustainable WAC Programs: A Whole Systems Approach," has been published in the most recent volume of The WAC Journal. The article can be accessed at https://wac.colostate.edu/journal/
Katie Arosteguy, Alison Bright, and Brenda Rinard's book will be published by Teachers College Press this Spring
This guide helps educators write for the rhetorical situations they will face as students of education, and as pre-service and practicing teachers. It provides clear and helpful advice for responding to the varying contexts, audiences, and purposes that arise in four major written categories in education: classroom, research, credential, and stakeholder writing.
The World According to Sound Lecture and Performance
Marit MacArthur has organized a lecture and performance by Sam Harnett from KQED and Chris Hoff from KALW that includes a live radio show and experiment in the art and science of sound, "The World According to Sound." Sam and Chris will talk about how they conceived the show at 12:10 in Hart 3201 and give a performance at 5:00 in Wright 120A on the UC Davis campus. The events are free and open to the public. For more information about the performance and podcast, visit theworldaccordingtosound.org/live
Chris Thaiss Leads WAC/WID Workshops in Argentine and Chilean Universities
UC Davis emeritus professor and former UWP director Chris Thaiss spent three weeks in August as visiting professor in Argentina to lead workshops for faculty and graduate students. A consortium of universities (RAILEES) had received a grant from the Fulbright Commission and the U.S. State Department to bring in Thaiss to work with them in three areas of writing studies: writing program development, teaching writing across the curriculum and in disciplines (WAC/WID), and development of writing research projects.
Lawson Snipes to Present "Helping the Homeless Help Themselves"
Lawson Snipes, the founder of the monthly newsletter The Spare Changer, will give a presentation on helping the homeless as part of Writers Without Borders and Conversations with Writers. The presentation will take place on Wednesday, November 14th from 7:00pm to 8:30pm in Voorhies 126. The event is free and open to the public.
Sasha Abramsky Publishes on Pittsburgh Synagogue Shooting in The Nation and The Bee
Sasha Abramsky's article, "The Pittsburgh Synagogue Shooting is the Inevitable Result of Trump's Vile Nationalism" has been published in The Nation at https://www.thenation.com/article/pittsburgh-shooting-result-trump-nationalism/.
Cassie Hemstrom Publishes Chapter in Teaching Information Literacy and Writing Studies
Cassie Hemstrom has published a co-authored chapter in Volume 1 of Teaching Information Literacy and Writing Studies, published by Purdue. The chapter draws on Cassie's experiences teaching UWP1. Cassie co-authored the article with Dr. Kathy Anders, a librarian at Texas A&M University, and the title of the chapter is "Communities of Information: Information Literacy and Discourse Community Instruction in First-Year Writing Courses."
Sasha Abramsky to Appear on C-SPAN Debate
Sasha Abramsky will be one of two Nation debaters in a C-Span televised debate on immigration. from Georgetown University on November 29th. Sasha is also writing a twice-a-month Sunday column for the Sac Bee, and recently his articles have appeared in The Nation, The Los Angeles Times, and other venues. His latest article for The Nation can be found at https://www.thenation.com/article/trumps-latest-assault-on-immigrants-sh...
Erika Strandjord's Article to Appear in Best of the Journals in Rhetoric and Composition 2018
Erika Strandjord's article, “Making, not Curating, the Rhetorical Tradition: Ways through and beyond the Canon,” which was published in Rhetoric Review 35.4, has been selected to appear in the Best of the Journals in Rhetoric and Composition 2018 edition.
Chris Thaiss Leads WAC/WID Workshops in Argentine and Chilean Universities
UC Davis emeritus professor and former UWP director Chris Thaiss spent three weeks in August as visiting professor in Argentina to lead workshops for faculty and graduate students. A consortium of universities (RAILEES) had received a grant from the Fulbright Commission and the U.S. State Department to bring in Thaiss to work with them in three areas of writing studies: writing program development, teaching writing across the curriculum and in disciplines (WAC/WID), and development of writing research projects.
Rebekka Andersen Receives $5,000 Grant to Study Professional Writing Internships Abroad
Apply to be a Writing Ambassador!
The interdisciplinary Writing Ambassadors (WA) program provides K-12 classrooms with UCD undergraduate student interns from a range of majors, many of whom plan on becoming K-12 teachers themselves.
Stephen Magagnini Interviewed on Capitol Public Radio
Stephen Magagnini was interviewed by Beth Ruyak for her show Insight on May 16th. Stephen discussed his long career as a journalist and what changes in the media mean for journalists and reporters. You can listen to the interview at http://www.capradio.org/news/insight/2018/05/16/insight-051618b/
Karma Waltonen Elected President of the Margaret Atwood Society
Karma Waltonen has been elected President of the Margaret Atwood Society. The Margaret Atwood Society is an international association of scholars, teachers, and students who share an interest in Atwood’s work. The main goal of the Society is to promote scholarly exchange of Atwood’s works and cultural contributions by providing opportunities for scholars to exchange information.
Professional Writing Minor Student Emma Hoppough Received Scholarship

National Writing Project Releases Civically Engaged Writing Analysis Continuum
UWP1 Students Present at UC Davis Undergraduate Research Conference
The 2018 UC Davis Undergraduate Research Conference poster sessions featured five students from UWP1: Rachel Nicole Yee, "Rhetorical Analysis of the Nutrition Discourse Community"; Sharani Ramesh, "Amtrack Travel Research Podcast"; Jihan Eter, "Automated Machine Grading of Writing"; Meyhaa Buvanesh, "Addressing Health Communication in Nutrition," and Ratnapala Gamage, "Different Cultural Styles of Writing Organization vs. the American Style of Organization."
Professional Writing Minor Student Michael Montgomery Presents at You Are Here Conference
Dan Melzer's Coauthored Book Sustainable WAC Published by NCTE
Dan Melzer's book Sustainable WAC, coauthored with Michelle Cox and Jeff Galin, has been published by NCTE. The book draws on theories of complexity, systems, and sustainability to present a methodology for building sustainable WAC programs.
Dana Ferris and Kendon Kurzer Published in TESOL Quarterly
Dana Ferris and Kendon Kurzer have articles published in the most recent issue of TESOL Quarterly. Dana's article, co-authored with former DE Education graduate student Grant Eckstein, is titled "Comparing L1 and L2 Texts and Writers in First-Year Composition." Kendon's article, which is based on research done in the UWP ESL program in 2014-15, is titled "Dynamic Written Corrective Feedback in Developmental Multilingual Writing Classes.
Second Edition of Dana Ferris' Teaching Readers of English Published
Routledge has published a second edition of Dana Ferris and John Hedgcock's Teaching Readers of English. Teaching Readers of English is a comprehensive manual for pre- and in-service ESL and EFL educators
Katie Rodger Publishes Article in Splash!
Students in Cassie Hemstrom's Class Save the Puppies, Save the World Create Footage for the Yolo County Animal Services Shelter
Students in Cassie Hemstrom's first-year seminar, Save the Puppies, Save the World: Composition Strategies for Non-Profit Promotion on Social Media, created footage for the Facebook page of the Yolo County Animal Services Shelter (https://www.facebook.com/YCAS.Shelter/). In Save the Puppies, Save the World, students study how to create effective branding and promotional posts, then compose and revise and visuals, bios, videos, which are then posted on the shelter or rescue's socia
LASER // Conversations in Art and Science
This is an invitation to see Marit MacArthur speak on "Poetry Reading, Performative Speech, and Sound Studies" at the LASER // Conversations in Art and Science.
Trish Serviss' Book Points of Departure Published by Utah State University Press
UWP120 Student Ellen M. Street Publishes in Xchanges
Former UWP120 student Ellen M. Street's article from UWP120, "Epistemic Certainty Surrounding DietaryRecommendations for Meat," was published in the journal Xchanges at http://www.xchanges.org/epistemic-certainty-surrounding-dietary-recommendations. Ellen also presented her research at the regional Conference on College Composition and Communication in June.
Scott Herring's Essay Published in the Journal Western American Literature
Scott Herring’s essay, “When the Water Meets the Road: The Return of the Westslope Cutthroat,” was published in the Fall 2017 issue of Western American Literature. The essay tells the story of Herring’s hunt for a rare and extraordinarily elusive fish hidden in the backcountry in Yellowstone National Park. The photograph of the fish on the University Writing Program website is a photo of the very same fish described in the journal, a westslope cutthroat trout, just before it swam away.
Marit MacArthur Receives NEH Grant for Sound Recordings Archives
Marit MacArthur is a co-leader of a sound recordings archiving project that has received a $75,000 NEH grant. The project focuses on developing open-source tools for scholars to mine new knowledge from archives of sound recordings, including Orson Welles' radio plays, the Talking Book collection for the blind, and thousands of hours of poets reading their works.
Jillian Azevedo Publishes Tastes of the Empire: Foreign Foods in Seventeenth Century England
Melissa Bender Presents on "WAC Practices for Inclusive Education" at the Association for Academic Language and Learning Conference in Geelong, Australia
Melissa Bender presented on "WAC Practices for Inclusive Education" at the Association for Academic Language and Learning Conference in Geelong, Australia on November 2, 2017.
WOE published collected interviews with rhet-comp scholars
Teachers on the Edge: The WOE Interviews, 1989–2017 collects the voices of 39 significant figures in modern writing studies, forming an accessible survey of the modern history of rhetoric and composition. This remarkable group of teachers and scholars tell the stories of their influences and interests, with scholarly introductions that trace their varied contributions to the field. Invaluable for writing students, writing teachers, and scholars of writing studies. http://bit.ly/toerout
Marit MacArthur Invited to Speak at SpokenWeb
Marit MacArthur was invited to speak on the panel "Digital Tools for the Analysis of Spoken Recordings" as part of the Canadian government's SpokenWeb project at Concordia University in Montreal.
Rebekka Andersen Chairs SIGDOC 2017 and Presents Workshops on State of Education in Technical Communication
In August, Rebekka Andersen chaired SIGDOC 2017, the Association for Computing Machinery’s Special Interest Group on the Design of Communication Conference, held in Halifax, Nova Scotia. SIGDOC 2017 featured keynotes by Dr. Karel Vredenburg, lead designer at IBM, and Rigo award winner Dr. Karen Schriver, President of KSA Communication Design & Research, and author of the foundational text Dynamics in Document Design.
Karma Waltonen Presents "Chronic Pain: A Comedy"
Karma Waltonen presented "Chronic Pain: A Comedy" at the Storytelling for Health Conference in Wales on June 16th. She also performed "Chronic Pain" in Davis and a recorded version is at http://ats.ucdavis.edu/ats-video/?kmid=0_2woig6nv
Katie Arosteguy Awarded Professional Development Grant
Katie Arosteguy has been awarded an Office of Academic Affairs Professional Development grant. She will continue work on a book project that she, Brenda Rinard, and Alison Bright are engaged in tentatively titled: A Student’s Guide to Writing in Education.
Melissa Bender Publishes Translated Book
Melissa Bender's book project, La Caricature 1830-1835, is now in print. La Caricature 1830-1835 is a collection of 19th century French political cartoons. Melissa translated and wrote the English language descriptions of the cartoons. They were originally published in a satire newspaper (La Caricature), which is now considered to be the precursor of Charlie Hebdo. The book is under consideration for a fine arts publication award in France.