Dr. Abram Anders, Director of ISUComm Foundation Courses was recently featured by the Iowa State Open & Affordable Education Committee in its faculty stories series: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kFRJ5XMJXvc Starting in Fall 2020, the ISUComm Foundation Courses program adopted low-cost Immediate Access options for its required textbooks for all sections of English 150 and English 250. This approach has allowed the program … Continue reading
Congratulations to the following graduate students! The following graduate students were awarded the Graduate College Research Excellence Award (REA) and/or the Teaching Excellence Award (TEA) by the Graduate Studies Committee Spring 2021. Awards are offered each semester. Research Excellence Awards recognize students who have outstanding research or creativity in their theses and dissertations and who … Continue reading REA/TEA Award Winners
Join the English Club to discuss literature and eat some pizza!
Corpus Linguistics Student Organization (COLISTO) is hosting this semester’s second guest speaker talk to be held on April 30, Friday, from 1-2 pm. Our guest speaker is Dr. Tove Larsson, who is an assistant professor at Northern Arizona University. In her talk, she will be sharing with us her recent collaborative research on adverb placement in spoken and … Continue reading Corpus Linguistics Student Organization (COLISTO) Guest Speaker Series
Congratulations! Associate Professor Linda Shenk is the 2020 recipient of the Albert W. Fields award from the South-Central Renaissance Conference. The award is granted every year for the best article to appear in the SCRC’s journal, Explorations in Renaissance Culture. Her remarkable essay, “Praising Elizabeth I in Latin at Norwich (1578),” impressed the judges who … Continue reading Linda Shenk won the Albert W. Fields award from the South-Central Renaissance Conference
Our readers this month will be Julia Bilek, Jordan Dunn, Emily Golden, and A’Ja Lyons. We hope you will be able to join us in hearing their wonderful work! If you have joined us for previous Emerging Writers readings, you will notice that this differs from past events, which were held on Thursdays. This semester, … Continue reading Emerging Writers Reading Series for March
By Amanda Ortiz-Pellot Allison Durazzi, a third-year Ph.D. student in the Rhetorical and Professional Communication program at Iowa State University, has dedicated her research to uncover some of the practices and considerations that companies employ when commemorating notable figures or social issues through their products. In this article, she explains her efforts and dives into … Continue reading Allison Durazzi talks about ice cream and why she chose Rhetoric and Professional Communication
Dr. Godwin Agboka will meet with the department and present “The Question of (In)justice: Incorporating Social Justice into Technical Communication Research” at 2 – 3 PM.