The Institute's Mark Koch and Megan McIntyre presented research at meetings of the Conference on College Composition and Communication this year.
Mark Koch presented at the New England CCCC, held at Boston University this past May. His presentation on map-making and multimodal composition stems from his longstanding interest in maps and critical cartography, which often find their way into his Writing 2-...
[more]The Institute for Writing and Rhetoric is pleased to announce that the Benjamin F. Barge and Class of 1866 Prizes for Oratory speech contest was held on Thursday, May 18, 2017, at 4:30 pm in the Treasure Room (Baker Library). A reception and award presentation followed in the Ferguson Room (Baker Library Room 206).
Eight Dartmouth students presented original persuasive speeches to a public audience and a panel of judges. At the conclusion of the event, Titus Kabega '17 was...
Adedoyin Ogunfeyimi joined the faculty this winter for a one-year position. Ogunfeyimi earned bachelor's and master's degrees in English at the University of Lagos in Nigeria, where he focused on discourse analysis and the relationship between language and power. After completing his studies in Nigeria, Ogunfeyimi earned a doctorate in English at the University of Wisconsin at Madison where he was a Fulbright scholar and Walter J. Vollrath distinguished fellow.
Director Christiane...
[more]The Institute's Josh Compton has won a “Top Paper” distinction from the Communication Apprehension and Competence Division of the National Communication Association.
The paper, “Re-thinking anxiety: Using inoculation messages to reduce and reinterpret public speaking fears,” authored with Ben Jackson (University of Western Australia-Perth), Ashleigh Thornton (University of Western Australia-Perth), and James Dimmock (University of Western Australia-Perth) tested inoculation-based...
[more]The Institute for Writing and Rhetoric is pleased to announce the winners of the Dickerson and Feinstein writing awards. For more information about these awards, please visit our Prizes page.
2013-14: Benjamin Prudhomme, “...
[more]Dartmouth’s Melissa Herman has been awarded a prestigious Fulbright teaching fellowship. She will teach academic writing at Alecu Russo Balti State University in the Republic of Moldova during the winter of 2017.
While Moldovans largely speak Romanian and Russian, the graduate students and teachers professor Herman will work with speak English and will benefit from her expertise in the writing and publishing of various academic genres. Herman states that her work will largely consist...
[more]The Dartmouth News features a news story on our recent conference celebrating the 1966 Dartmouth Seminar.
On August 10-12, an international group of writing studies scholars working with methods from fields such as ethnography, cultural-historical activity theory, language policy, neuroscience, cognitive psychology, linguistics, big data and more will meet here at Dartmouth to address the question: What is the state of the art of higher education writing research today and where must it go next?
This conference celebrates the 50th anniversary of the legendary 1966 Dartmouth Seminar, a...
[more]Professors Megan McIntyre and Nick Van Kley recently attended conferences to share their research.
The two scholars appeared together on a roundtable focused on digital research methods at the annual Computers and Writing Conference held at St. John Fischer College in Rochester, New York. The roundtable offered an examination of how research methods and ethical considerations are evolving in response to the ever-changing spaces and practices of digital media. The conversation included...
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