The Composition Program shares the following announcements as lead-up to Spring 2020. Syllabus and Office Hours Collection – Due by Tuesday, January 28, 2020If you are teaching one or more sections of ENGL1105 or ENGL1106 this spring, submit your completed syllabus and office hours to composition@vt.edu no later than the end of the day on … Read more January 2020 Announcements
The Composition Program has the following announcements to share for December 2019. Pathways Assessment Required for All Sections of ENGL1105 and ENGL1106All sections of ENGL1105 and ENGL1106 must report Pathways assessment ratings this semester. Instructions specific to the Composition Program are available for you to review at http://www.hokieswrite.com/pathways/. Pathways data can be submitted when you complete the evaluation of the major project anchoring each course (rhetorical analysis … Read more December 2019 Announcements
At the end of each semester it’s nice to take a moment to look back and reflect, whether in general or through an assignment like ENGL 1105’s reflection essay. In this post I am going to give a brief overview of reflection and provide some resources for better understanding reflection and bringing it into the … Read more Reflection in the First-Year Writing Classroom
Hello Hokie Writers! Our composition program at Virginia Tech is home to many wonderful instructors who care deeply for their students and their professional work. So, to show our thanks for these instructors, we’ve developed a monthly installment called “Instructor Spotlight” that will feature an instructor who is currently teaching composition at VT. What better … Read more November Instructor Spotlight: Tim Becker
The Composition Program has the following announcements to share for November 2019. Pathways Assessment Required for All Sections of ENGL1105 and ENGL1106All sections of ENGL1105 and ENGL1106 must report Pathways assessment ratings this semester. Instructions specific to the Composition Program are available for you to review at http://www.hokieswrite.com/pathways/. Pathways data can be submitted when you complete the evaluation of … Read more November 2019 Announcements
Recently developed by Dr. Chris Lindgren, faculty in rhetoric and writing at Virginia Tech, As It So Happens aggregates into an ever-updated list the latest of what has been published in selected academic journals related to rhetoric and composition/writing studies and professional and technical communication. As It So Happens bears out a design comparable to … Read more As It So Happens
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Composition Program Teaching TalkMaterials from the Composition Program Teaching Talk on Wednesday, Sept. 11, which consisted of a Pathways Assessment refresher and a discussion of Multilingual Writing and ELL Students, are available in the document gallery online: http://www.hokieswrite.com/docgallery/. The CCCC Statement on Second Language Writers and Writing is available at https://cccc.ncte.org/cccc/resources/positions/secondlangwriting. Title IX Presentation and … Read more September 2019 Announcements
The Department of English at Virginia Tech invites applications for a Collegiate Assistant Professor of Rhetoric & Writing, who will teach in and who will contribute to the leadership of a growing, vibrant Composition Program, to begin August 2020. (See §5.1.5 of the Faculty Handbook at https://www.provost.vt.edu/who_we_are/faculty_affairs/faculty_handbook/chapter05.html for information on the rank of Collegiate Professor.) … Read more Job Posting: Collegiate Assistant Professor of Rhetoric & Writing
Prepared for instructors, this video gives an overview of the process for creating and managing cumulative project submissions (including all daily classwork, in-class writing, peer reviews, and so on) in the Composition Program at Virginia Tech. Sample messages for sharing folders with individual students are posted in the comments in YouTube for your adaptation and … Read more Google Folders for Collecting Portfolios (All Writing)