Center for Writing Excellence

Upcoming Center for Writing Excellence Boot Camps

The workshop hosted by Elon's Psychology Department, Drs. Kim Epting and Erika Lopina, will share strategies they've used to promote the transfer of writing skills/knowledge across multiple classes. Participants will be given time to brainstorm similar strategies for their curriculum.

The interactive workshop, hosted by Elon’s Department of Physics, will teach participants the “Letter Home” method of writing to convey complex ideas to non-expert audiences.

The presentations shared the speakers’ experiences with building partner collaborations and high-impact practices with attendees of the 2019 Louisiana Virtual Academic Library Conference.

The workshop, led by Paula Rosinski, professor of professional writing & rhetoric and director of Writing Across the University in the Center For Writing Excellence, will be held Nov. 18.

Writing Center lead consultant and accounting and finance double major Erin Leonard '20 and Julia Bleakney, director of the Writing Center and Assistant Professor of English, present on leadership in the Writing Center at an international conference.

Jessie Moore, director of the Center for Engaged Learning and professor of professional writing and rhetoric, will present on "Teaching for (Writing) Transfer Across the University: Building on What Students Know from First-Year through Graduation"

A grant from the Association of Legal Writing Directors supported the two-day visit by Ruth Anne Robbins, a distinguished clinical professor from Rutgers Law who taught Elon Law students, faculty, and staff about the power of narrative storytelling and the importance of document design in the legal profession.

Kjirsten Durand-Johnson L’20 has been honored in the most recent Adam A. Milani Disability Law Writing Competition for a class assignment she parlayed into a formal contest submission.

Professor Ryan Johnson will share an experimental pedagogy he used in his senior seminar class, where students went through the process of writing a professional philosophy article alongside him as he went through the proces of writing a professional philosophy book.