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Visit the Rhetoric and Professional Writing
Program link at the left to view details about the program and to
get the Fall 2009 2nd Annual Professional & Technical Writing
Contest entry form and submission guidelines.
Visit the Writing Center link to see our work
at the center. Chat with us on meebo when the center is open!
Latest News:
- This November, students Laura Beth
Stricker, Kaley Morris, Katherine Long, and Erica Gore will go
with me to the Mountain Lake Leadership Conference to conduct a
workshop called "How to Use Visual Rhetoric and Document Design
to Establish Yourself as a Leader."
- On November 3rd, Beth Cheuk of the
LCVA will be presenting her experiences at work in English 303:
Visual Rhetoric and Document Design.
- On November 4th, I will attend the
Sigma Kappa Faculty Appreciation Night. Thanks!!!
- The October 29th social and Q&A event
at Buffalo Wild Wings was a success. Thanks to all the students
who came out and to Professor Magill.
- Visits to the Writing Center have
tripled in comparison to Spring 2009 & Fall 2008 numbers
covering the same time period thanks to the hard work of the
tutors!
- Freshmen Dustin Shuman and Nick Lee
are listed as co-authors with me on "Teaching Visual Rhetoric in
the Composition Classroom." Both students shared their
experiences with writing essays for English 150. Our paper will
be published in the peer-reviewed journal, Teaching English
in the Two Year College, March 2010.
- My paper, "Poetry, Visual Design, and
the How-To Manual: Creativity in the Teaching of Technical
Writing," will appear in the peer-reviewed English Journal
in March of 2010.
- My book review of Christine Mason
Sutherland's The Eloquence of Mary Astell will appear in
The Scriblerian and the Kit Kats sometime in 2010.
- In October, I will be a guest lecturer
in Dr. Kim Alexander's "Women in Leadership" course at the
Church of God Theological Seminary. Dr. Alexander is the author
of a book by the same title.
- In November, I will co-facilitate a
workshop called "Getting Intensive" for the Center of Academic
and Faculty Enrichment (CAFE). We will discuss how to meet the
speaking and writing intensive requirements for courses taught
across campus.
- The new writing-across-the-curriculum
website that my student interns, Amanda Barker and Amanda Wacker,
and I are creating should be up sometime in November as a link
to the new CAFE site.
- The new Sustainability Conference
website should soon be up as well. Mark your calendars for March
2010.
- I had the privilege of attending the
Rhetoric of Society's Third Biennial Summer Institute in June.
The workshop, "Rhetoric and the Sacred in the 21st Century,"
inspired me to complete my first book, Oklahoma Preachers,
Pioneers, and Pentecostals. I am still waiting to hear from
the publisher.
- The 2nd Annual Professional and
Technical Writing Contest is soon to begin. Visit the Rhetoric
and Professional Writing Program link for details and entry
forms.
Thanks for voting me Honorary Spirit
Leader in Fall 2008!
Thanks to Dr. Tsigidarus-Johnson for
including me in the Martin Luther King presentation Spring 2009.
Thanks to my Fall 2008 English 150
freshman for their hard work updating the Writing Tips for
Students by Students libguide. See our work at
www.longwood.edu/library/writing.
Past News:
- I was the invited speaker for the
International Pentecostal Holiness Church's Archives
Luncheon on July 29, 2009. My speech was called, "The
Changing Faces of Women's Leadership."
Visit the
IPHC Experience to read about my presentation on pages 17 & 18.
- I presented a paper called "Mary
Astell, Please Meet the Pentecostals!" at Texas A&M's
conference, Memory: Rhetoric's Forgotten Canon
Conference in Commerce this last February.
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