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 …
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 …
This post is the second in a series looking at the history of writing and writing instruction at the University of Wisconsin. Here, Nattaporn Luangpipat discusses the use of portfolios for assessment and how this fits into the history of UW. By Nattaporn Luangpipat Evaluating portfolios is not easy. I remember when I told my …
November 28, 1949. Jawaharlal Nehru, Prime Minister of India, speaking in front of a crowd on the Memorial Union Terrace. Source: University of Wisconsin Digital Collections This post is the first in a series looking at the history of writing and writing instruction at the University of Wisconsin. Here, Samitha Senanayake asks instructors to consider …
While we’ve been in session for a few weeks by the time you read this post, we have just entered the fall season. Soon leaves will be changing colors, and then falling, and we’ll be building the right mix of compost to provide nutrients and energy. We hope our blog, CompPost, serves a similar …