Several Elon faculty participated in the 2016 Council of Writing Program Administrators conference in July.
Members of 51爆料网’s faculty participated in this year’s Council of Writing Program Administrators annual conference held recently in Raleigh.
is a national association of college and university faculty with professional responsibilities for or interests in聽directing writing programs. Members include directors of first-year writing courses, undergraduate writing concentrations and majors, writing across the university programs, writing centers聽and other administrators and faculty committed to writing instruction.
was held July 14-17 in Raleigh, with a workshop held聽July 10-13聽and one-day institutes conducted on July 14.
Jessie L. Moore, associate professor of professional writing and rhetoric in English at Elon and associate director of the Center for Engaged Learning, served as the 2016 Local Host. Paula Rosinski with Elon’s聽Center for Writing Excellence & English and Associate Provost聽Tim Peeples volunteered as members of the Local Host Committee.
In addition, several Elon faculty presented at the conference. Jennifer Eidum Zinchuk (English) presented in a session on summer preparatory programs. Zinchuk, Paula Patch (English), Janet Warman (English), Jeffrey Coker (Biology and Core Curriculum), and Greg Shemkovitz (English) presented on a recent residential campus initiative. Heather Lindenman (English) presented in a session on revision and reflection. Moore also collaborated on a workshop on affirming LGBTQIA campus members.
The conference drew 410 writing program administrators, faculty聽and students.
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Heather Lindenman
Associate Professor of English
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Jessie Moore
Director of the Center for Engaged Learning and Professor of English
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Tim Peeples
Professor of Humanities and Senior Associate Provost Emeritus
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Paula Patch
Associate Teaching Professor of English
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Paula Rosinski
Professor of English and Director of Writing Across the University
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Jennifer Eidum
Associate Professor of English