MSU First Year Writing program
The MSU Writing, Rhetoric, & American Cultures department is offering a First-Year Writing Program Conference that both celebrates the work of freshman writing students, and gives high school students and their teachers a sense of what college writing is like. This year, the conference is from 10-3 on Friday, April 25th, in Bessey Hall, and includes a writing workshop, another on analyzing visual rhetoric, and a third on doing on-line peer review. We welcome all high school students to this event!
Questions?
The MSU Writing, Rhetoric, & American Cultures department is offering a First-Year Writing Program Conference that both celebrates the work of freshman writing students, and gives high school students and their teachers a sense of what college writing is like. This year, the conference is from 10-3 on Friday, April 25th, in Bessey Hall, and includes a writing workshop, another on analyzing visual rhetoric, and a third on doing on-line peer review. We welcome all high school students to this event!
Questions?
Schedule:
10:00-10:30 - Register, hear some introductory (inspiring!) remarks and see a video about what writing is and means here at MSU.
10:30-11:15 - Attend a special interactive session on Invention and Inquiry Centered Around a Cultural Artifact (this session is a lot of fun, and is one way that many of our instructors introduce a culturally based writing assignment to our students).
11:30-12:15 - Attend one of the many panels that feature writing and videos by First-Year Writing students (on topics ranging from global communication through the internet, research about food dyes, crosscultural differences, and hip hop poetry).
12:30-1:30 - Lunch provided. We have two Q&A sessions scheduled for this time slot: one for the high school teachers and principal with our First-Year Writing Director and two of our instructors who work a lot with high schools; and another for the high school students, with three undergraduate students (one freshman who is in First-Year Writing, and two seniors from our Professional Writing program
1:30-2:15 - An on-line peer review that specifically features our use of technology to creative interactive learning spaces in our writing classrooms.
2:30-3:00 - Either attend another panel, or debrief with some of the program organizers.
10:00-10:30 - Register, hear some introductory (inspiring!) remarks and see a video about what writing is and means here at MSU.
10:30-11:15 - Attend a special interactive session on Invention and Inquiry Centered Around a Cultural Artifact (this session is a lot of fun, and is one way that many of our instructors introduce a culturally based writing assignment to our students).
11:30-12:15 - Attend one of the many panels that feature writing and videos by First-Year Writing students (on topics ranging from global communication through the internet, research about food dyes, crosscultural differences, and hip hop poetry).
12:30-1:30 - Lunch provided. We have two Q&A sessions scheduled for this time slot: one for the high school teachers and principal with our First-Year Writing Director and two of our instructors who work a lot with high schools; and another for the high school students, with three undergraduate students (one freshman who is in First-Year Writing, and two seniors from our Professional Writing program
1:30-2:15 - An on-line peer review that specifically features our use of technology to creative interactive learning spaces in our writing classrooms.
2:30-3:00 - Either attend another panel, or debrief with some of the program organizers.