The Department of Writing and Rhetoric welcomed back the start of fall classes with donuts and bottled water for all students and instructors. On Monday, August 25 and Tuesday, August 26 representatives from the department passed out donuts and bottled water at each of the Lamar entrances. This was a celebration of not just the students being back on campus, but also the Department of Writing and Rhetoric offices, classrooms, and the Writing Centers all being located in Lamar together. Students were very appreciative to have some brain fuel on their first days of classes.

Brad Campbell welcomes students with donuts.

Joanne Mitchell welcomes students with donuts.

Nick Carbone talks to W&R Teachers at Fall Orientation

Oxford, MS – On August 20, 2014, The Department of Writing and Rhetoric held a day-long orientation for its writing instructors in its new home in Lamar Hall. The orientation featured a welcome breakfast for 22 new writing instructors, workshops that helped all writing instructors prepare for fall classes, and it gave attendees the opportunity to listen to guest speaker, Nick Carbone, Director of Digital Teaching and Learning for Humanities Higher Education with Macmillan Education. Carbone spoke about trends in composition studies, which include teaching process-based writing, the use of big data to shape student learning, and the increasing trend of including multimodal compositions in writing assignments. The full trends talk can be viewed at http://teachnet.blogspot.com/2014/08/trends-in-composition-what-things-may.html, and more information on multi modality can be found at http://teachnet.blogspot.com/2014/08/multimodal-teaching-and-writing.html.

Oxford, MS – On August 20, 2014, The Department of Writing and Rhetoric kicks off its fall semester with a day-long orientation held in its new home in Lamar Hall. The orientation features a welcome breakfast for new writing instructors, workshops to help instructors prepare for fall classes, and a guest speaker, Nick Carbone, Director of Digital Teaching and Learning for Humanities Higher Education with Macmillan Education.