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Barry Estabrook, New York Times Best-Selling Author of Tomatoland, to Visit UM on March 25, 2015

Posted on: March 16th, 2015 by jsmitch1

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The Department of Writing and Rhetoric is pleased to partner with the Southern Foodways Alliance to bring Barry Estabrook to the University of Mississippi on Wednesday, March 25, 2015 at 7:00pm at the Ford Center. Barry Estabrook is an investigative food journalist and former contributing editor to the late Gourmet magazine. His New York Times best-selling book, Tomatoland: How Modern Industrial Agriculture Destroyed Our Most Alluring Fruit, investigates the factory farms and slave labor of large-scale tomato production in Florida. Estabrook has written for the New York Times, the Washington Post, TheAtlantic.com, Saveur, Men’s Health, and Reader’s Digest. His next book, Pig Tales, explores sustainable pork production and will be published in June 2015. This event is free and open to the public.

UM Writing Centers presentation featured in Sweetland Digital Rhetoric Collaborative Review.

Posted on: January 23rd, 2015 by addavis

A presentation at the International Writing Centers Association conference in Orlando, FL by UM Oxford Writing Center director Brad Campbell, former assistant director Ben Lowerly, and consultant Taylor Brack presented was recently featured in a Sweeland Digital Rhetoric Collaborative review.

Read more about their presentation here: http://www.digitalrhetoriccollaborative.org/2015/01/18/year-in-review-iwca-2014-defining-differences-and-achieving-consensus-what-is-an-online-writing-center/

W&R Spring Orientation is Friday January 16 at 8:00 in Lamar Hall; All WRIT 102, LIBA 102, and WRIT 250 faculty are required to attend

Posted on: January 14th, 2015 by addavis

The Department of Writing and Rhetoric will host the Spring 2015 orientation for faculty teaching WRIT 102, LIBA 102, and WRIT 250 on Friday January 16 at 8:00 in Lamar Hall 323. At orientation, faculty will be introduced to curriculum resources for each theme and will participate in a grade norming exercise. Also, faculty will learn about new Somerville Hall offices and other general announcements from Department.

See the orientation schedule page for more details and the complete schedule.

All teachers for WRIT 102, LIBA 102, and WRIT 250 are required to attend Spring orientation.