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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 have published the textbook Who's Your Source? A Writer's Guide to Effectively Evaluating and Ethically Using Resources with Broadview Press. You can find out more about the book at https://broadviewpress.com/product/whos-your-source/#tab-description  

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.

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. 

By Oliver Tseng, Writing and Editing Intern, Professional Writing Program

From cultivating skills to general interest, students select minors for many different reasons.

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. You can read the essay at https://time.com/5819824/coronavirus-prenatal-care/  

Sasha Abramsky's twice weekly column, "Signal:Noise," is being published  in the Nation magazine at https://www.thenation.com/content/signalnoise/. Sasha also has a weekly piece in Truthout (https://truthout.org/authors/sasha-abramsky/), and is doing a once every two weeks TV slot on Act TV, a project of Democrats.com.   

UWP Lecturers play a major role in UC Davis’s First-Year Seminar program.

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. More information about the book can be found on Amazon.

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 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, 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 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.

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.