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Visiting Scholar
Nedra Reynolds, on sabbatical leave this fall, will be a visiting scholar at the University of Hawai'i at Mãnoa, October 27-30. Invited for her expertise on geography and the politics of space, Professor Reynolds will give a lecture on "The Where of Writing: Lessons from Travel Writing for Place-Based Composition,” and throughout the week she will work closely with writing faculty and graduate students on designing place-based curricula. Her workshop on teaching writing with portfolios is sponsored by the Center for Teaching Excellence. Other sponsors include the University’s Mãnoa Fund, the English Department's Program in Composition and Rhetoric, and the Student Chapter of the Rhetoric Society of America.
Congratulations
Graduate students Bryna Siegel and Matthew Ortoleva have each been awarded Graduate Research Fellowships from the URI Center for the Humanities, to support their dissertation research in Rhetoric & Composition. Siegel's project is titled "Persistence, Resistance, and Change: Toward a Critical Praxis for Researched Writing," and Ortoleva's is titled "Rhetorics of Place and Ecological Relationships: The Rhetorical Construction of Narragansett Bay."
Marie Andrews, Jeremy Hawkins, and Lindsay Ryan are the first-ever students to receive the Bachelor of Arts in Writing & Rhetoric.
These three students were the first to walk across the stage during the Arts & Sciences commencement ceremony.
Andrews, Hawkins, and Ryan each completed an Electronic Portfolio, culminating with a public presentation on May 8, 2008.
This first class of pioneers brought a creative energy and a drive to succeed, setting the bar high for all the classes that will follow. For more information on these students, click here.
Professors Nedra Reynolds and Linda Shamoon were awarded research sabbatical leaves for Fall 2008.
Andrew McQuaide, a double-major in Writing and Rhetoric and African-American Studies, was recently honored with a 2008 Diversity Award for Undergraduate Student Excellence (Academic/Service). He was noted for his "academic excellence and campus leadership on behalf of Kingian nonviolence."
Publication
We are pleased to announce the publication of "Thinking Vertically." Appearing in the "Interchanges" section of the most recent issue of CCC, this piece responds to Douglas Downs and Elizabeth Wardle's "Teaching about Writing, Righting Misconceptions." It represents a collaboratively-authored response by many members of the CWP, including Libby Miles, Michael Pennell, Kim Hensley Owens, Jeremiah Dyehouse, Helen O'Grady, Nedra Reynolds, Robert Schwegler, and Linda Shamoon. As the editor, Deborah Holdstein, notes, the piece shows that "good thinking can...be a many-authored thing" (367).
New B.A. in Writing and Rhetoric
URI students can now major in writing and rhetoric! Beginning in Fall 06, students who are strong writers, who enjoy writing, and who are considering a career in writing can choose the new B.A. in Writing and Rhetoric in the College of Arts and Sciences. This major focuses on professional, academic, and technical writing and is the only writing major offered by a New England land-grant institution.
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