“A Life-Changing Experience”: Some Reflections on the Mellon-Wisconsin Dissertation Writing Camp


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By Chris Earle, Kevin Mullen, Rebecca Couch Steffy, and Nancy Linh Karls Chris Earle is a Ph.D. candidate in Composition and Rhetoric at UW-Madison, where he also serves as the Assistant Director of the Writing Center. Kevin Mullen completed his doctorate in Literary Studies at UW-Madison and currently teaches writing with the UW Odyssey Project. Rebecca Couch Steffy […]

February 9, 2015

FIGs and the Art of Teaching Dangerously


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By Greg Smith Greg Smith, assistant dean emeritus, had been the director of the First-Year Interest Groups (FIGs) program at the University of Wisconsin-Madison  from 2002 until his recent retirement at the end of December 2014. Prior to coming to UW-Madison, his work at other institutions included being an assistant professor of English, a registrar, […]

January 26, 2015

Inquiry Groups as Tutor Education: Writing from Below


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By Rebecca Lorimer Leonard Rebecca Lorimer Leonard is an assistant professor of English and Director of the Writing Center at University of Massachusetts Amherst. She is a former UW-Madison Writing Center tutor and Assistant Director of the Writing Across the Curriculum Program. You can read about her work at http://blogs.umass.edu/rlorimer/. In late November, CNN aired Ivory Tower, […]

January 19, 2015