The Division of Writing, Rhetoric, and Digital Media is excited to welcome professor Brian McNely to its faculty!
Professor McNely joins us this fall studying how people work and interact. He researches professional writing in digital environments, tracing the writing that people do in order to find out how they get things done, how they make meaning from the work they do, and how they share that meaning with others.
Some ideas for creating your own 110 projects
Sample Syllabus 1: A syllabus with a reflective focus on students' own position shifts. Includes multimodal assignments that are scaffolded. (Also see: schedule of work.)
As university graduates increasingly require international perspectives, skills and knowledge, UK is using a new program called Global Classroom Connections that allows students to use new technologies to gain international experiences independent of financial or other constraints.
Intro video for WRD 204: Technical Writing with Dr. Bill Endres
Written texts, YouTube videos, podcasts - these are all means of communicating ideas to others. Craig Crowder is a graduate student in the Department of English and teaches Composition & Communication classes, WRD 110 & 111. In this podcast, Crowder discusses ways to engage students via multimedia projects, and his research, which examines social movement rhetoric in a society that uses multiple modes of communication.
WRD 111 is the second course in the composition & communication sequence at UK. In this class, students compose written, spoken, and multimedia arguments about public issues. In this podcast, one group on their WRD 111 experience at the end of the semester. Students Bailey Ubellacker, Jenny Wu, Daniel Moreland, Jake Persky, and Cameron Sallee talk about what they enjoyed the most and what skills they will take away from this challenging course.
Craig Saper Associate Professor of Language, Literacy, and Culture, University of Maryland Baltimore County "A 'Top 20 Plan' For Writing, Part 5: Learn To Read Online Visually "
Daniel Anderson, Professor of English and Comparative Literature talks about Digital Composing, Teaching, and Creativity.
UK's Division of Writing, Rhetoric and Digital Media will host a strategist, futurist and technologist to discuss reading, writing, literacy and education this week.
