Department of English
Congratulations to Professor Charlie Kostelnick for winning the Kitty O. Locker Outstanding Researcher Award at the Association for Business Communication (ABC) conference in October. At the conference, he also presented Pervasive and Perplexing Pies: Our Uneasy Relationship with a Data Display Genre.
In Karla Ruden’s English 150 Common Threads Learning Community, there is stressed analysis of design features of buildings and artwork on campus in Assignment #4. The students are then encouraged to think of art in textiles or clothing they would be designing or that others had designed. The photo features a mini cocktail dress designed in the ’80s by Oleg Cassini. Peyton Chilton, a Common Threads … Continue reading Professor Karla Ruden’s Learning Community Features Design Analysis Assignment
Zara Chowdhary won the prized Parent-Writer Fellowship at the 2018 Writing Conference at Martha’s Vineyard Institute of Creative Writing. The Parent-Writer Fellowships are intended to give parents the time and financial support to devote a week to themselves and their writing. Zara shared, “I just got back from the 2018 Writing Conference at Martha’s Vineyard … Continue reading Zara Chowdhary wins prized Parent-Writer Fellowship
PhD students in the Rhetoric and Professional Communication program (L-R) Bremen Vance, Mariah Kemp, Amanda Arp, Samantha Cosgrove, George Standifer, and Associate Professor Tina Coffelt presented Measuring Business Communication: Including Diverse Skills at the Association for Business Communication (ABC) conference in Miami, FL October 24-26, 2018. Bremen Vance and Samantha Cosgrove also received Graduate Student … Continue reading PhD RPC Students, Tina Coffelt Present at ABC Conference
Students within the English 250 class taught by Sarah Crosby recently worked with campus groups in service learning projects. The service learning project was to pick one of three campus groups, which were Green Dot & YSS’ Stork’s Nest, Margaret Sloss Women’s Center & Office of Equal Opportunity, and The SHOP, and then work with … Continue reading ENGL 250 Students Work on Service Learning Unit in Learning Community Link with Writing & Gender Studies
Amanda Arp, Mariah Kemp, Phillip Gallagher and Dr. Stacy Tye-Williams presented their project titles, “Um… diversity definition that’s hard: Student perceptions of diversity” at the CSCA conference in Milwaukee, WI. The project earned a “Top Paper Award” at the conference.
Gulbahar Beckett Professor Applied Linguistics and Technology/TESL Journal article, “Evaluating the Research Quality of Education Journals in China: Implications for Increasing Global Impact in Peripheral Countries,” published in the Review of Educational Research. Juanjuan Zhao / University of Cincinnati Gulbahar H. Beckett / Iowa State University Lihshing Leigh Wang / University of Cincinnati Journal Article Review … Continue reading Gulbahar Beckett Journal Article in RER
Samantha Cosgrove, Derek Hanson, Patti Poblete, Jillian Garuman, Bremen Vance, Loren Malone, Barb Blakely and Kathy Rose presented at the National Council of Writing Program Administrators Conference in Knoxville, TN. Their presentation topics included ISUComm ePortfolios, learning management systems, and diversity and inclusion in writing programs.