JCCC Department of English Blog

Professors Amy Pace and Maureen Fitzpatrick presented the session “Reuse, Renew, Recycle: When Student Writing Becomes Recycling” at the TYCA-Midwest Regional Conference in Iowa City, IA on October 8, 2022. The session invited participants to discuss more complex forms of what students may or may not consider plagiarism: the “recycling” of former work or multiple submissions for an assignment. For many students, the concept of self-plagiarism seems more like reallocated their own resources than stealing their own work–the lines seem arbitrary. The workshop-style session asked participants to respond to  several scenarios that challenge the definition of academic integrity and then to collaborate on a section of a student-friendly definition of plagiarism that focused on student “recycling.”

Andrea Broomfield, Chair of English, was invited by Johnson County Public Library to do three events in September related to her new book, _Iconic Restaurants of Kansas City_ and food history in general: “Writing Recipe Narratives” was a workshop Andrea conducted for participants interesting in food writing ( Sept. 17, 2022);  “Writing Food History: Methodology, Rewards, Challenges,” was a lecture she gave on Sept. 14, 2022, and “The Past Is Prologue: Kansas City’s Iconic Restaurants,” was a virtual lecture she gave on Sept. 13, 2022.

Marianne Kunkel’s poem “The Carpool Year,” about her early childhood years living in Mexico, was accepted for publication by The Louisville Review.

Special thanks to Anthony Funari, Marianne Kunkel, Greg Luthi, and Steve Werkmeister for their contributions!