writing & rhetoric, women’s studies

Assistant Professor

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Hobart & William Smith Colleges

1. •In WRRH courses, students:
   

2. •respond in writing to all assignments
   

3. •participate in class discussions, workshops, and oral presentations
   

4. •routinely evaluate themselves in writing for each draft of  a formal essay
   

5. •write summary, analysis, and argument as central academic modes of discourse
   

6. •are responsible for their own writing choices
   

7. •collaborate in drafting workshops and on projects
   

8. •edit and polish all formal essays before submitting final drafts
   

9. •produce a project that uses library and internet research
   

10. •practice making diverse writing choices (i.e., styles and modes of discourse)
    

11. •receive feedback in numerous ways: 
    

12. margin comments, conferences, audiofiles, contracts,  midterm diagnostic portfolios, final evaluative portfolios, traditional grading practices.

Hobart and William Smith Colleges Homepage

Writing and Rhetoric Program

Women’s Studies Program

Media and Society Program

Student Organizations

Senior Symposium

Library Homepage

The Eight Goals

Center For Teaching and Learning

PeopleSoft Portal

Registrar’s Office

Writing Table

Avoiding Plagiarism

American Rhetoric

CNN

Digital History

Grammar Bytes

Google

IMDb

APA Citation Examples

MLA Citation Examples

The Metaphor Observatory

MSNBC

Thirty Free Image Resources
     on the Web

Who Is?

Wikipedia

YouTube

Accessing Blackboard Chat

Adding elements to your posts in WordPress

Analyzing Fiction

College Writing or, ‘You’re Not in Kansas

     Anymore, Toto’

Evaluating Sources

A Good Study Abroad Essay

Grading Criteria

Group Project Tips For College Students

Guide to the Research Project

How to Take Effective Class Notes

Incorporating Others’ Ideas into Your Papers:
     Summarizing, Paraphrasing & Quoting

Reading Rhetorically

Reading Strategies

Responding To Papers: What to look for

Revision Suggestions

The Rhetorical Appeals

Sample Online Blog Response

Thesis Statements: The What, How &
     Because of Your Paper

Tips for reading and analyzing text

Tips for writing and analyzing text

Tips on a Good Blog Entry

Writing A Summary

HWS writing & rhetoric program learning practices

writing resources:

downloadable documents

HWS links

writing resources:  useful links

Spring 2012

WRRH200:  Writer’s Seminar II

1. Special Topic:  “Argument through Fictional Narrative”
   

WRRH205: Rhetorical Bytes: Digital Rhetorics and Writing with New  Technologies

WRRH311:  Rhetorics of Feminist Activism

WRRH450:  Independent Study

1. “Holocaust Literature (Adolescent)”

For links to previous classes, click here.