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Katie Arosteguy, Alison Bright, and Brenda Rinard's book will be published by Teachers College Press this Spring

This guide helps educators write for the rhetorical situations they will face as students of education, and as pre-service and practicing teachers. It provides clear and helpful advice for responding to the varying contexts, audiences, and purposes that arise in four major written categories in education: classroom, research, credential, and stakeholder writing. Readers learn about the scholarly and qualitative research processes prevalent in the field of education, and are encouraged to use writing to facilitate change that improves teaching and learning conditions.

Karma Waltonen Featured in UC Davis Magazine

UC Davis Magazine featured Karma Waltonen in the the article "The Campus Simpsonologist." The article discusses Karma's first-year seminar on the Simpsons and cites her books and essays on the Simpsons. 

The World According to Sound Lecture and Performance

Marit MacArthur has organized a lecture and performance by Sam Harnett from KQED and Chris Hoff from KALW that includes a live radio show and experiment in the art and science of sound, "The World According to Sound." Sam and Chris will talk about how they conceived the show at 12:10 in Hart 3201 and give a performance at 5:00 in Wright 120A on the UC Davis campus. The events are free and open to the public. For more information about the performance and podcast, visit theworldaccordingtosound.org/live

Chris Thaiss Leads WAC/WID Workshops in Argentine and Chilean Universities

UC Davis emeritus professor and former UWP director Chris Thaiss spent three weeks in August as visiting professor in Argentina to lead workshops for faculty and graduate students. A consortium of universities (RAILEES) had received a grant from the Fulbright Commission and the U.S. State Department to bring in Thaiss to work with them in three areas of writing studies: writing program development, teaching writing across the curriculum and in disciplines (WAC/WID), and development of writing research projects. 

Lawson Snipes to Present "Helping the Homeless Help Themselves"

Lawson Snipes, the founder of the monthly newsletter The Spare Changer, will give a presentation on helping the homeless as part of Writers Without Borders and Conversations with Writers. The presentation will take place on Wednesday, November 14th from 7:00pm to 8:30pm in Voorhies 126. The event is free and open to the public.

Cassie Hemstrom Publishes Chapter in Teaching Information Literacy and Writing Studies

Cassie Hemstrom has published a co-authored chapter in Volume 1 of Teaching Information Literacy and Writing Studies, published by Purdue. The chapter draws on Cassie's experiences teaching UWP1. Cassie co-authored the article with Dr. Kathy Anders, a librarian at Texas A&M University, and the title of the chapter is "Communities of Information: Information Literacy and Discourse Community Instruction in First-Year Writing Courses."