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From Big Ag To Campus Cafeterias: Intersections Of Food-Supply Networks As Technical Communication Pedagogy, Jessie Lynn Richards, Joshua Lenart, David Sumner, Douglas Christensen Jan 2018

From Big Ag To Campus Cafeterias: Intersections Of Food-Supply Networks As Technical Communication Pedagogy, Jessie Lynn Richards, Joshua Lenart, David Sumner, Douglas Christensen

Faculty Publications

This article presents a pedagogical approach to teaching technical and professional writing with an eye toward cultivating awareness and generating informed research among undergraduate students about food production and its various, intricate networks between Big Ag and campus cafeterias. Our pedagogy, influenced by interdisciplinary content, is designed to teach students to differentiate between food processes—such as production versus distribution and consumption—by viewing these networks as communicative practices rather than as inevitable chains or simple functions of one another. Our approach encourages students to locate and analyze differences between interdependent, but seemingly disparate pathways and to make visible communicative intersections that …


Using Visual “Bait” To Hook, Engage, And Empower New Community College Writers, Nicola Blake Jan 2018

Using Visual “Bait” To Hook, Engage, And Empower New Community College Writers, Nicola Blake

Publications and Research

This reflective article focuses on a series of semester-long activities conducted with developmental writers in an urban community college classroom. It builds on the research of John Berger (1972) and Sondra Perl (1994) who highlight seeing and perception as key components of self-composition. The article showcases assignments where students created photo journals as a way to share their lives, thoughts, and experiences. The use of structured prompts allowed students to actively engage with their neighborhoods -- a sort of text to be read, captured, and ultimately decoded through written explanation. The examples will be useful to practitioners who may be …


Las 189 Sample Im, Richard Morris Phd, Parkland College Center For Academic Success Jan 2018

Las 189 Sample Im, Richard Morris Phd, Parkland College Center For Academic Success

LAS 189 Materials

This is an instructional handout is an example of an inquiry-based writing project for LAS 189, Introduction to Liberal Arts, at Parkland College.


Paragraphs: Pie (Handout), Angela Gulick, Parkland College Center For Academic Success Jan 2018

Paragraphs: Pie (Handout), Angela Gulick, Parkland College Center For Academic Success

Paragraphs and Transitions

This handout outlines the Point Illustrate Explain (PIE) model for body paragraphs and provides examples to demonstrate.


Semicolons (Handout), Angela Gulick, Parkland College Center For Academic Success Jan 2018

Semicolons (Handout), Angela Gulick, Parkland College Center For Academic Success

Punctuation

This instructional handout defines and gives examples of colons and semicolons.


Semicolons And Colons (Video And Slides), Angela Gulick, Parkland College Center For Academic Success Jan 2018

Semicolons And Colons (Video And Slides), Angela Gulick, Parkland College Center For Academic Success

Punctuation

No abstract provided.


Quotation Marks (Handout), Angela Gulick, Parkland College Center For Academic Success Jan 2018

Quotation Marks (Handout), Angela Gulick, Parkland College Center For Academic Success

Punctuation

This instructional handout presents the uses of double quotation marks.


Building A Paragraph Using Sources For Support (Handout), Amber Landis, Parkland College Jan 2018

Building A Paragraph Using Sources For Support (Handout), Amber Landis, Parkland College

Paragraphs and Transitions

This handout shows how to construct a paragraph using sources for support and includes a sample paragraph.


Quotation Marks (Video And Slides), Angela Gulick, Parkland College Center For Academic Success Jan 2018

Quotation Marks (Video And Slides), Angela Gulick, Parkland College Center For Academic Success

Punctuation

This video with downloadable slides discusses the three major functions of quotation marks and how to use them in academic writing.


Punctuation Overview (Handout), Lori Williams Jan 2018

Punctuation Overview (Handout), Lori Williams

Punctuation

This handout provides a brief overview of when to use various punctuation marks, including: periods, question marks, exclamation points, commas, semicolons, colons, hyphens, quotation marks, single quotation marks, apostrophes, ellipses, dashes, and brackets.


Exclamation Points (Video And Slides), Angela Gulick, Parkland College Center For Academic Success Jan 2018

Exclamation Points (Video And Slides), Angela Gulick, Parkland College Center For Academic Success

Punctuation

This video with downloadable slides demonstrates where and when to use exclamation points!


Periods, Angela Gulick, Parkland College Center For Academic Success Jan 2018

Periods, Angela Gulick, Parkland College Center For Academic Success

Punctuation

This video with downloadable slides reviews the two main uses of periods in writing.


Apostrophes (Handout), Angela Gulick, Parkland College Center For Academic Success Jan 2018

Apostrophes (Handout), Angela Gulick, Parkland College Center For Academic Success

Punctuation

This instructional handout provides tips for how to determine when to use apostrophes.


Parentheses, Brackets, And Ellipses (Video And Slides), Angela Gulick, Parkland College Center For Academic Success Jan 2018

Parentheses, Brackets, And Ellipses (Video And Slides), Angela Gulick, Parkland College Center For Academic Success

Punctuation

This video with downloadable slides discusses proper use of parentheses, brackets, and ellipses, with a added note on when to use "[sic]."


Commas (Handout), Angela Gulick, Parkland College Center For Academic Success Jan 2018

Commas (Handout), Angela Gulick, Parkland College Center For Academic Success

Punctuation

This handout provides examples showing appropriate use of commas.


Apostrophes (Video And Slides), Angela Gulick, Parkland College Center For Academic Success Jan 2018

Apostrophes (Video And Slides), Angela Gulick, Parkland College Center For Academic Success

Punctuation

This video presentation with downloadable slides demonstrates the proper use of apostrophes.


Comma Splices (Handout), Angela Gulick, Parkland College Center For Academic Success Jan 2018

Comma Splices (Handout), Angela Gulick, Parkland College Center For Academic Success

Sentence-level Errors

This instructional handout helps identify the comma splice sentence error and identifies for ways to fix the problem.


Run-On Sentences And Comma Splices (Video And Slides), Angela Gulick, Parkland College Center For Academic Success Jan 2018

Run-On Sentences And Comma Splices (Video And Slides), Angela Gulick, Parkland College Center For Academic Success

Sentence-level Errors

This video with downloadable slides provides an overview and examples of sentences errors, run-on sentences, comma splices, and fused sentences, suggesting ways to fix them.


Seven Steps For Creating Visuals, Angela Gulick, Parkland College Center For Academic Success Jan 2018

Seven Steps For Creating Visuals, Angela Gulick, Parkland College Center For Academic Success

Graphs, Charts, and Tables

This is instructional handout, prepared for English 102 (Composition II) at Parkland College, provides guidance on how to use graphs and charts in research writing.


Tables Using Microsoft Word 2013, Angela Gulick, Parkland College Center For Academic Success Jan 2018

Tables Using Microsoft Word 2013, Angela Gulick, Parkland College Center For Academic Success

Computer Tutorials

This handout provides instruction for creating a table using Microsoft Word 2013.


Headers Using Microsoft Word 2013, Angela Gulick, Parkland College Center For Academic Success Jan 2018

Headers Using Microsoft Word 2013, Angela Gulick, Parkland College Center For Academic Success

Computer Tutorials

This handout provides instructions for how to create headers using Microsoft Word 2013.


Table Of Contents Using Microsoft Word 2013, Angela Gulick, Parkland College Center For Academic Success Jan 2018

Table Of Contents Using Microsoft Word 2013, Angela Gulick, Parkland College Center For Academic Success

Computer Tutorials

This handout and video combination demonstrates how to create a table of contents using Microsoft Word 2013.


Pie Charts Using Microsoft Word 2013, Angela Gulick, Parkland College Center For Academic Success Jan 2018

Pie Charts Using Microsoft Word 2013, Angela Gulick, Parkland College Center For Academic Success

Computer Tutorials

This handout and video combination demonstrates how to use Word 2013 to build pie charts.


Shared Landscapes, Contested Borders: Locating Disciplinarity In An Ma Program Revision, Whitney Douglas, Heidi Estrem, Kelly Myers, Dawn Shepherd Jan 2018

Shared Landscapes, Contested Borders: Locating Disciplinarity In An Ma Program Revision, Whitney Douglas, Heidi Estrem, Kelly Myers, Dawn Shepherd

English Literature Faculty Publications and Presentations

It is not unusual to consider a discipline spatially as a "space defined or touched by a particular characteristic or force" (Wardle and Downs, this collection, emphasis added). This conceptualization makes visible the metaphor at play here: territories are demarcated and differentiated from neighboring environments by borders that can be more or less visible. In this chapter, we use our experience as faculty members invested in a substantive revision of an MA program revision to explore how that process of delineation opens up new questions about disciplinarity. We sought to create a generous curricular space within an MA degree, …


Editing Strategies (Handout), Angela Gulick Jan 2018

Editing Strategies (Handout), Angela Gulick

Editing Strategies

This instructional handout provides tips for improving editing skills.


Editing Strategies (Slides), Angela Gulick Jan 2018

Editing Strategies (Slides), Angela Gulick

Editing Strategies

This series of slides identifies the five most common editing myths and details ways to maximize editing effectiveness


Articulating Digital Archival Practice Within Writing Program Administration: A Theoretical Framework, Amanda Girard Jan 2018

Articulating Digital Archival Practice Within Writing Program Administration: A Theoretical Framework, Amanda Girard

Dissertations, Master's Theses and Master's Reports

Throughout Writing Program Administration scholarship there has been a clear call for archivization and archival work. This dissertation project takes an interdisciplinary approach to digital archival practices for Writing Program Administrators to consider and employ in their home institutions. While I recognize that WPAs are not typically identified as “archivists,” I situate the digital archive within the digital humanities as an interdisciplinary, collaborative project and offer suggestions that lead to recommendations for making an institutional archive. I review archival practice in order to justify the digital archive as an appropriate vehicle for WPAs’ work. Further, I argue that the digital …


Book Review: Information Literacy And Writing Studies In Conversation: Reenvisioning Library-Writing Program Connections, Jacqulyn Ann Williams Jan 2018

Book Review: Information Literacy And Writing Studies In Conversation: Reenvisioning Library-Writing Program Connections, Jacqulyn Ann Williams

Communications in Information Literacy

No abstract provided.


On Cheating And Prosperity, Trey Conatser Sep 2017

On Cheating And Prosperity, Trey Conatser

Greater Faculties: A Review of Teaching and Learning

At the outset of a new academic year, we'd do well to reflect on how we pitch academic integrity—and the concept of cheating—to our students. Not only does it affect how they see us as teachers and scholars; it also affects in profound ways how we see (or don't see) students as complex human beings. And this asks us to go against our gut reactions to the apparent moral legibility of cheating. If we understand cheating as an evasive concept, and as a product of our institutions, we're much less likely to incentivize it.


“But Mom, I Want To Make A Cartoon”: Approximation And Letting Go In Teaching Composition, Adrienne Jankens Jun 2017

“But Mom, I Want To Make A Cartoon”: Approximation And Letting Go In Teaching Composition, Adrienne Jankens

English Faculty Research Publications

No abstract provided.