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Writing & Rhetoric

Faculty in Writing & Rhetoric

Jean Zipke

Jean Zipke

ECHSP Coordinator
Lecturer

Office: Roosevelt 325
Phone: (401) 874-5932
E-mail: jzipke@mail.uri.edu
Degrees: University of Michigan; Northwestern University
Certification: Boston University

Teaching Interests:
General Education Writing; Freshmen writing classes; Preparing high school students for college writing classes; Articulation between high school and college expectations

Publications and Presentations:
  • "Learning Center Tutors as Agents of Change," CRLA
  • "Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Chalkboard," LAANE
  • "Training Effective Tutors," NYCLSA
Professional Activities: Coordinator of the Early Credit High School Program (ECHSP), Member of NCTE, NEATE, CCCC, and CRLA

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E-Portfolio Presentations

All seniors in the Writing & Rhetoric major complete an electronic portfolio through our capstone course, WRT 495. The Spring 2009 class, consisting of Sam Fuller, Jessica Notardonato, Samantha Notardonato, Rob Petrin, Tatiana M. Uhoch, and Emily Weintraub, marked the second year for graduating our pioneer Writing & Rhetoric majors.


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Upcoming Events

Friday, November 13th
Brown Bag: "The Collision of Science and Rhetoric, and a Lesson on How to Save a Bay" by Matthew Ortoleva
Where: The Writing Center, 4th Floor Roosevelt Hall
When: 1:00 pm - 2:00pm

This presentation, part of a two-year ethnographic study on how language and rhetorical acts are used to construct ecological relationships to Narragansett Bay, considers how Save The Bay, a professional environmental advocacy organization, enacts science discourses as a central focus of its activism on behalf of the ecological health of the Narragansett Bay watershed.