Critical Ink is an annual multidisciplinary conference that features the best student writing and undergraduate research produced in Duke’s Thompson Writing Program. Reflecting the wide range of the program’s faculty specialties, the conference includes presentations and posters in the humanities, social sciences, and natural sciences. This initiative from the Thompson Writing Program provides an invaluable forum for students to share their ideas with their peers and contribute to campus intellectual life. Critical Ink emulates academic conferences, including a competitive selection process and expert respondents to the various poster and panel sessions.
Critical Ink Program:
Congratulations to Melissa Pascoe, TWP Business Manager! Ms. Pascoe has received Duke University’s 2011 Meritorious Service Award in the Presidential Awards, Managerial category. Duke University Presidential Awards are presented each year to recognize the contributions of a select group of outstanding employees who have distinguished themselves through diligent work and dedicated service. Ms. Pascoe will receive her award at the Presidential Awards Luncheon on April 18, 2012.
Want to jump start your writing this summer? Looking for ways to be a more productive and motivated scholarly writer? Interested in meeting and talking with other faculty writers? The Thompson Writing Program is offering a three-day faculty writing workshop to help you cultivate a sane, productive writing life. Each day includes both time for you to write, as well as hands-on workshops. Writing sessions offer opportunities to write in a comfortable, relaxed space. In workshops, you will learn powerful practices that can help you to incorporate your role as a writer among your many commitments. Appropriate for faculty in any discipline. Space is limited to 12 participants, and applications are due by April 24th. Click here for additional information and an application. Questions? Contact Jennifer Ahern-Dodson,
Congratulations to Tori Polo and Bridget Meaney, who received an Undergraduate Travel Award from the Southeastern Writing Center Association (SWCA) for their final project in Vicki Russell's EDUC 155S (255S) tutor training course. The video was titled "Reflecting Back, Thinking Forward: How to Gain the Most from Your Writing Center Experience" and can be viewed on YouTube. The award was presented to the top ten undergraduate research proposals for the Spring 2012 SWCA Conference at Eastern Kentucky University.
Congratulations to Ami V Shah, Thompson Writing Program Lecturing Fellow and recipient of the 2012 Award for Excellence in Teaching Writing.
As part of the “Discover Duke, Winter Counselor Workshop” sponsored by Duke Admissions, four members of the TWP recently participated in a panel on “An Inside Look at Writing 101 (20), Duke’s first-year course in academic writing.” Beth Fox, Associate Dean of the Academic Advising Center, moderated the panel, with Will Wodehouse, BN Duke scholar and a student in “Google Earth” last year; Jennifer Ahern-Dodson; Lindsey Smith; Hill Taylor; and Vicki Russell all participating. The audience of 60 guidance counselors from NC and SC was particularly interested in finding out more about the unique quality of the academic experience for Duke's first year students.
Learn more about innovative undergraduate learning experiences in Duke's first-year writing seminars:
Jennifer Ahern-Dodson: Digital Storytelling for Critical Reflection
James Berkey: Rare Book Room soldier letters and diaries
Nicolette Cagle: Creating environmental education posters for the North
Carolina Botanical Garden in Chapel Hill
Sandra Cooke: Global Awareness of Ocean Acidification
Sandra Cooke: Ocean Acidification? Never heard of it!
Jonathan Dueck: Online Public Writing
Nicolas Eilbaum: Visiting farmworker camps and volunteer work with
Durham high-school students of immigrant background
Maral Erol: Curating a Scoop-it website
Kathleen Millar: Volunteering at Urban Ministries of Durham
Ami Shah: Academic Blogging
Katya Wesolowski: Radio Stories
The Baldwin Scholars and Women's Center will be bringing the OpEd Project to Duke next January for a workshop for undergraduate women.
The Center for Instructional Technology (CIT) and the Thompson Writing
Program (TWP) are jointly offering a year-long Faculty Fellowship program to provide support for faculty interested in developing and evaluating new
approaches to teaching research with writing to undergraduates in their
disciplines. The final deadline for applications is September 20, 2011.
Please direct questions about the Teaching Research with Writing to Jennifer Ahern-Dodson, Visit the following url for more information and/or to apply:
http://cit.duke.edu/services/fellowships/fellows-archive/2011-2012-teaching
-research-with-writing-fellows/
Friday, November 4 from 1:00 to 5:00 PM Perkins Library
The Theme of this year's symposium Writing Beyond the Classroom, gives upper class students a unique opportunity to practice applying their academic writing skills to new situations beyond conventional course work. All Sophomores, Juniors, and Seniors are eligible, and attendance is free of charge. For additional information about the sessions click here. The number of participants is limited so apply early! Apply by October 7. Use the online application http://twp.duke.edu/undergraduate/duke-writes-symposium
Denise Comer received a Jump-Start Grant from Duke's Center for Information Technology to include iPads for students and faculty in three Spring 2011 writing-intensive courses, including one Writing 101 (20) course. The two other courses will be writing-intensive courses from different disciplines. Students and faculty will develop strategies for making meaningful use of the iPad in an academic setting, and explore the impact of this device on their scholarly reading and writing practices.
Sandra Cooke, Writing 101 (20): Aquatic Invasive Species: Students will conduct a hands-on investigation of an aquatic invader that was recently discovered in nearby Jordan Lake. Daphnia lumholtzi is an exotic water flea whose distribution in North Carolina is not well documented. This tiny animal can influence food resources for fish, but its ecological effects in Jordan Lake are unknown. Throughout the semester, students will take field trips to Jordan Lake, followed by laboratory work on campus, so that the class can monitor how D. lumholtzi abundance, body size, and reproductive characteristics vary over time. This study will culminate in several writing projects, including a scientific report discussing the potential effects of D. lumholtzi on the Jordan Lake ecosystem and proposing further research directions.
Bridget Cooper, Writing 101 (20): Writing the Self: The Art of Personal Writing. Bridget Cooper's students will travel to the Progress Energy Center on October 9th for an evening of readings and recollections from bestselling author, David Sedaris. The event will feature readings from his works, including When You Are Engulfed in Flames and his newest release (a book of "outrageously funny fables"), Squirrel Seeks Chipmunk: A Modest Bestiary, which is set to hit stores on September 28th. Students will have the opportunity to ask questions during a Q & A session and greet Sedaris at a book signing following the event.