Category Archives: Writing

Common Read Special Speaker

Posted on 09/24/2018 by jmcward

Josh Neufeld, illustrator for this year’s Common Read book, The Influencing Machine, will visit campus on Thursday, Oct. 4.    He will speak at 11 am in the Polsky Theater and autograph books afterward.  From 1:45 to 3 pm, he will … Continue reading →

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Beth Gulley at Riverfront Reading Series

Posted on 09/05/2018 by jmcward

At 8pm on Friday, Sept. 14, Beth Gulley, professor of English, will read from her work as part of the Riverfront Reading Series at The Writer’s Place, 3607 Pennsylvania Ave., KC, MO.  Gulley has recently published poems in Apeiron Review, The … Continue reading →

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Cavalier Conference 2018

Posted on 04/30/2018 by jmcward

The 4th Annual Cavalier Conference on Writing and Literature was held on April 20, 2018 at the JCCC Regnier Center. This year’s theme was Researching: Teach, Do, and Share. The conference attracted high school and college instructors from around the … Continue reading →

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Ted Rollins: Writing Transfer and Teaching for Transfer

Posted on 02/21/2018 by jmcward

Ted Rollins, professor of English, was awarded a sabbatical for the 2017 fall semester.  One result of his sabbatical is a 93-page annotated bibliography on writing transfer and teaching for transfer.  This bibliography is now available on JCCC’s Scholarspace here: https://scholarspace.jccc.edu/sabbatical_projects/8/ … Continue reading →

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Essays on Writing from The Chronicle of Higher Education

Posted on 02/16/2018 by jmcward

The Chronicle of Higher Education recently published two pieces that should be of interest to English instructors. “What’s Wrong with Writing Centers” is an interview with Lori Salem, who argues that regular writing center practices “such as non directive instruction, … Continue reading →

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