Composition
College of Humanities and Social Sciences

The George Mason University community of writers will celebrate the National Day on Writing on Friday, October 19 through a Tweetathon. Use hashtag #whyiwrite and share advice about writing, clever tactics for writing, or neat writing tricks.

Dr. Gesa Kirsch, professor and feminist scholar, will visit George Mason University on Thursday, October 18. Her talk is titled, “The Advocacy, Activism, and Rhetorical Savvy of Dr. Mary Bennett Ritter, MD, and her Contemporaries.” Time and location: 2pm Johnson Center Room F.

This fall’s Students as Scholars faculty learning community (FLC) will focus on online writing instruction (OWI). The purpose of this learning community is to train faculty to teach online and hybrid sections of ENGH 302 that meet the best practices established by the CCCC Position Statement.

The Archive of Workplace Writing Experiences (AWWE), an early-stages research project by Professors Brian Fitzpatrick (George Mason University) and Jessica McCaughey (George Washington University) was recently awarded a 2018 Emergent Researcher Award grant of $8,000 by the Conference on College Composition and Communication (CCCC).