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Lindsay Sabotka and Cassie Hemstrom Partner with Yolo County Animal Services Shelter

Lindsay Sabotka and Cassie Hemstrom have partnered with the local Yolo County Animal Services Shelter to create service learning opportunities for their 104A business writing students. Shelter representatives have visited their classes and discussed the different rhetorical situations the shelter encounters in social media and promotional writing, and their students were able to analyze these situations, as well as the shelter's audiences and purposes in writing.

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Anti-Feminist Speaker Inspires Donation to UC Davis Women's Center

When members of the University Writing Program learned that conservative pundit Milo Yiannopoulos would speak at UC Davis, they decided to help the kind of organization his writing attacks.

UWP members recently raised $400 to donate to the UC Davis Women's Research and Resources Center. They chose WRRC because of Yiannopoulos's widely publicized criticism of feminists in the video game and film industry.

Yiannopoulos has been accused of using his Breitbart News column to facilitate the online harassment of women, such as the all-female cast of 2016's Ghostbusters movie.

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Carl Whithaus and Chris Thaiss Published in CCC's Symposium on Independent Writing Programs

Carl Whithaus and Chris Thaiss published "Independent Writing Programs Post Recession: Complexities and Discontents in an Achieved Utopia" in the CCC's Symposium on Independent Writing Programs in the September issue of CCCs. The link to the symposium is http://www.ncte.org/library/NCTEFiles/Resources/Journals/CCC/0681-sep2016/CCC0681Symposium.pdf

 

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