Department of English
End-of-Semester As the semester draws to a close, Amy Walton recommends dedicating some time to frame course evaluations for students. Student ratings of teaching are often criticized as a means of evaluation. They reflect individual students’ thoughts and biases and therefore do not paint a full picture of the classroom experience. However, they have use … Continue reading UP NEXT IN ENGL 250
Module 3B Multimodal Remix Presentation Lesson by Katheryn Anderson Lesson Objectives: This lesson aims to help students develop their presentation ideas, consider what content they might include in their 3B presentation, and engage in a desensitization process that will build their comfort level when speaking in front of their peers. Additionally, students can gain a … Continue reading Up Next in ENGL 150
Dear all, As decidedly uncool as it is, I love a good greatest hits album. George Strait’s 50 Number Ones has kept me company on more than one long, solo road trip. A quick search for “greatest hits” in my music library returns mostly 90’s country. This makes sense to me, considering that I listened … Continue reading Director’s Letter
Like so many other elder millennials who grew up in the US, I consider The Goonies a formative cultural artifact. I grew up with an older brother and older cousins I desperately wanted to imitate and impress, so I watched the movie with them despite how frightening I found several scenes. The Goonies isn’t a … Continue reading Director’s Letter
Catherine “Cath” Engstrom started teaching at Iowa State in January of 2012, and has been teaching ISUComm Foundation Courses for the past eleven years. She obtained her undergraduate degree from ISU and later moved on to Purdue for graduate work. Cath has a rich and storied 24-year teaching background, her classrooms ranging from high schools … Continue reading A Chat with Cath Engstrom, Friend of the Ag Community
ENGL 250 – Multimodal Arguments To help students prepare for the Multimodal Arguments module, Jessi Brock has designed an activity that will help students understand the conventions and advantages of different genre forms. The purpose of this assignment is to introduce students to multiple genre forms through group work before they decide on their chosen … Continue reading UP NEXT IN ENGL 250
ENGL 150 – Multimodal Remix To help students prepare for the Multimodal Remix module, Allya Yourish has designed a lesson plan for the beginning of the module after students have been introduced to the module requirements in order to help them understand multimodality. Students will enter the lesson having read from the textbook for … Continue reading Up Next in ENGL 150
Iowa State University’s Applied Linguistics Program hosts the Technology for Second Language Learning Conference (TSLL) each fall. Each year the conference organizing committee creates a conference theme that reflects emerging areas of research-practice synergies. The 2023 conference will provide a forum for researchers, teachers, and course developers to explore the contributions of research in advancing … Continue reading Technology for Second Language Learning Conference — Advancing Technologies — Expanding Research
Gratitude with Dogs under Stars features selections from Debra Marquart’s three collections of lyric poetry (Small Buried Things, New Rivers Press 2015; From Sweetness, Pearl Editions 2001; and Everything’s a Verb, New Rivers Press 1995) and adds 21 new poems to round out the experience. Beginning with the new poems, the collection travels back through Marquart’s illustrious … Continue reading Debra Marquart has a new collection published this August
The RPC area group will host a colloquium event this semester. These events bring us together to showcase and/or discuss the scholarship and intellectual contributions we make. This year, the intent is to highlight graduate students’ scholarship. Two graduate students who are presenting at a conference this semester agreed to share their conference presentations with … Continue reading RPC Fall Colloquium