University of Wisconsin–Madison

Month: December 2019

Student Writing Award Winners, 2017-2018

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We are thrilled to announce the winners of English 100’s Student Writing Awards for 2017-2018. These compositions are student submitted and evaluated by a team of experienced English 100 instructors and administrators. We award compositions in four categories: Narrative, Informative, Critical, and Multimodal. The winning essays in the Narrative, Informative, and Critical categories are published …

The Afterlives of Writing During the 1969-70 TA Strikes

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Image: Jon Kim, “TAA Strike, 1970”, 1970, Black and white photograph, UW-Madison Archive Images This post is the third in a series looking at the history of writing and writing instruction at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Here, Brian Milthorpe examines the historical role of TAs in shifting English 100 writing instruction to a more decentered …