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Yergeau to Lead 2018 FYWP Winter Colloquium

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EMU’s First-year Writing Program invites you to join us in Ypsilanti on Friday, March 23, for the 2018 Winter Colloquium. Dr. Melanie Yergeau  will present  at 10:30 a.m., “Black Mirror Meets the Classroom: Neurodiversity and Social Robots.” After lunch, at 1 p.m., she will lead a writing pedagogy workshop, “Disability, Access, and Multimodal Pedagogies.” For more information, contact Derek Mueller, Dir. of the First-year Writing Program,  at dmuelle4@emich.edu, or Rachel Gramer, Associate Dir. of the First-year Writing Program, at rgramer@emich.edu.

Promotional flier for Dr. Melanie Yergeau's presentation and workshop at EMU on March 23, 2018.
Promotional flier for Dr. Melanie Yergeau’s presentation and workshop at Eastern Michigan University’s Pray-Harrold Hall, Room 219, on Friday, March 23, 2018. Free and open to the public. The presentation, titled “Black Mirror Meets the Classroom” is at 10:30 a.m.; the teaching workshop, titled “Disability, Access, and Multimodal Pedagogies,” is set for 1 p.m.

TRIO Newsletter Features 33rd Celebration of Student Writing

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The December 2017 TRIO Newsletter included an item on that program’s participants in the 33rd semiannual Celebration of Student Writing at Eastern Michigan University, which was held Thursday, November 30, in the Student Center Ballroom. Learn more about EMU’s TRIO program at http://www.emich.edu/triosss/. Additional information about the program’s purposes is available on the U.S. Department of Education website.

Eastern Michigan University TRIO newsletter, December 2017.
Eastern Michigan University TRIO newsletter, December 2017, highlighting student presentations at the 33rd semiannual Celebration of Student Writing.

Library Additions – Summer 2017

The EMU First-Year Writing Program has delivered the  following titles to Halle Library as part of its  resources initiative. Titles will be available for check-out later this summer.

  • Race and Writing Assessment (Studies in Composition and Rhetoric) , edited by  Mya Poe  and Asao B. Inoue
  • Transnational Writing Program Administration by David Martins
  • Survivance, Sovereignty, and Story: Teaching American Indian Rhetorics, edited by  Rose Gubele and Lisa King
  • On Multimodality: New Media in Composition Studies (CCCC Studies in Writing & Rhetoric) by Jonathan Alexander and Jacqueline Rhodes
  • From Form to Meaning: Freshman Composition and the Long Sixties, 1957-1974 by David Fleming
  • A New Writing Classroom by Patrick Sullivan
  • The Framework for Success in Postsecondary Writing: Scholarship and Applications, edited by Nicholas N. Behm, Sherry Rankins-Robertson, and Duane Roen
  • Labored: The State(ment) and Future of Work in Composition, edited by Randall McClure, Dayna V. Goldstein, and Michael A. Pemberton
  • A Critical Look at Institutional Mission: A Guide for Writing Program Administrators, edited by Joseph Janangelo

To make additional requests, please  complete the Book/Material Purchase Request Form.