Happy fall, PWPAers! We hope you are settling into the semester and that you’re ready for a new academic year of PWPA events. We’re certainly ready for you. Please mark your calendars for the fall PWPA meeting, hosted this October 25, 2013, at Philadelphia University. We are looking forward to your …
The PWPA Executive Committee has 3 vacancies for at-large positions coming up, and we are looking for nominations for these positions. As many of you know, the Executive Committee generally meets four times during the year: at the Fall, Winter, and Spring meetings, and again in the Summer. According to …
We knew that the final PWPA meeting for the year was going to be special, but many of us were surprised by just how special it was. A day packed with PWPA faculty development, an introduction to the brilliant new program assessment tool designed by one of our very own, …
It was another happy hour of time very well spent as folks braved the chill and came out to Tir Na Nog in Center City on Feb. 22. Perhaps our most successful turnout yet, the social welcomed new and veteran members to talk shop and get to know one another. …
Our annual PWPA Winter Social will be held on Friday, Feb. 22, at Tir Na Nog in Center City. There will be appetizers, good conversations, and good fun. See you there!
Check out this new collection from Parlor Press, featuring some of our PWPA colleagues.
Philadelphia Council for Writing Program Administrators (PWPA) Fall Meeting/Conference Call for Proposals September 21, 2012 Holy Family University Philadelphia, PA 19114 Conference Theme: Metacognition: Learning to Read/Write and Reading/Writing to Learn Given recent research in neuroscience, metacognition, or thinking about thinking, has sparked renewed interest among literacy theorists, scholars, and …
On Thursday and Friday, April 19 and 20, Temple University’s Institute on Disabilities and PWPA hosted the Spring conference, “Disability and the Teaching of Writing.” Thanks to the generous sponsorship of Cabrini College, the event began the evening of the 19th at the Bryn Mawr Film Institute, where several folks …
We are proud to announce William Fitzgerald’s (Rutgers University) newest publication through Penn State University Press, Spiritual Modalities: Rhetoric, Prayer, and Performance.
PWPA is happy to announce the publication of Eli Goldblatt’s newest book, Writing Home: A Literacy Autobiography (Southern Illinois University, 2012). Here is a description of the text from the publisher’s Web site: In this engrossing memoir, poet and literacy scholar Eli Goldblatt shares the intimate ways reading and writing influenced the …
