The students of ENGL 120 (Computers and Language) would like to invite you to a showcase of their final projects Today (12/9) and Wednesday (12/11) from 12:10-1:00 pm in Ross 212. If you have a few minutes, please feel free to stop by to visit with our students and engage with them on their poster … Continue reading ENGL 120 (Computers and Language) final projects showcase
The students of ENGL 120 (Computers and Language) would like to invite you to a showcase of their final projects Today (12/9) and Wednesday (12/11) from 12:10-1:00 pm in Ross 212. If you have a few minutes, please feel free to stop by to visit with our students and engage with them on their poster … Continue reading ENGL 120 (Computers and Language) final projects showcase
Higher Education Institutions in Australia are facing increasing pressure to ensure graduates can not only demonstrate knowledge of their field, but are also equipped with the communication and professional skills necessary to perform successfully in their future workplaces. This has witnessed growing recognition of the need to provide ongoing language support for students enrolled in … Continue reading Designing Disciplinary-Specific Literacy Support Challenges & Opportunities
Please join us for a craft talk hosted by author Kristen Iversen. As part of the Pearl Hogrefe Visiting Writers Series, she will talk about research, art, ethics, and aesthetics in creative non-fiction.
As part of our series on writing, Carol Chapelle, Deb Marquart, and David Russell will be joining us to share their strategies for enhancing writing productivity. Although this is a Grad Connections event I wanted to extend the invitation to all department members. I hope to see many of you there! As always there will … Continue reading Enhancing Writing Productivity
Want to see a magnet defy gravity and float midair—or learn how blood is a lot like a superhero? The Ames Public Library and ISU English Department invite the public to attend an afternoon of science fair fun on Saturday, Dec. 7 at the library’s Farwell T. Brown Auditorium. From 2:00-3:30 p.m., Iowa State University … Continue reading Science with Cy
For our final event of the semester, we will consider podcasting in the writing classroom. In this session, we will hear from instructors using podcasting assignments, and we will work together to understand how podcasting aligns with and supports the objectives of our writing courses. You don’t need to be a podcast expert, or even … Continue reading Podcasting Panel – Workshop
Are you interested in helping us evaluate textbooks for English 250? In this drop-in session, we will first consider evaluation criteria for rhetoric and reader textbooks used for English 250 and then use these criteria to evaluate a variety of texts. Regardless of which textbooks you have used in your class, we would appreciate hearing … Continue reading Textbook Review – Drop-in Session
Environmental Martyrs and the Fate of the Forest Rob Nixon is a nonfiction writer and public intellectual working in the environmental humanities and postcolonial studies. He is the Barron Family Professor in Humanities and the Environment at Princeton University. The author of four books, most recently Slow Violence and the Environmentalism of the Poor, Nixon … Continue reading Rob Nixon — Pearl Hogrefe Visiting Writers Series and 2019 Goldtrap Lecture
In her debut novel, Three Ways to Disappear, Katy Yocom explores the story of journalist, Sarah DeVaughan. Leaving behind a nomadic and dangerous career as a journalist, DeVaughan returns to India, the country of her childhood and a place of unspeakable family tragedy, to help preserve the endangered Bengal tigers. Meanwhile, at home in Kentucky, her … Continue reading Katy Yocom — Three Ways to Disappear