The Department of English Language and Literature and its faculty are actively engaged with the Toledo-area community. Here are some recent examples.
English Department
Annual Summers Lecture with reception, free and open to the public, often preceded by workshops on the topic of the lecture, [...]
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The Little Brown Handbook will continue to be used as the common handbook for the Composition program. A new edition of the handbook, with updated information on MLA and APA documentation, will be available for the fall semester. The ISBN number for this handbook is 978-0-205-66588-4. Please update this information as you order texts for [...]
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The Composition Program is currently looking for individuals interested in presenting at this year’s Fall workshop (taking place the Friday before the start of the fall semester). If you are interested in presenting a workshop at this event, please email Anthony Edgington <anthony.edgington@utoledo.edu> with your name and the topic in which you would like to [...]
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Congratulations to all the Shapiro Revision Contest Winners.
Our thanks to Deborah Coulter-Harris for organizing and advertising this year’s event and our congratulations to her on another successful contest.
2009 Shapiro Revision Contest Winners
1st Place: Amanda Pinnow
2nd Place: Phillip C. Vine
3rd Place: Kyle J. Wetzel
4th Place: Seth Oberst
5th Place: Andrew J. Mueser
6th through 15th Place [...]
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Instructors who teach distance learning courses are currently working on additions to the faculty handbook that will help future instructors teaching these courses. If you would like to help in the construction of these materials or if you have ideas that would help future instructors, please email Barbara Schneider or Anthony Edgington with your information.
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On April 17, Linda Bergmann, Associate Professor of English at Purdue University, will be presenting a workshop for our Writing Across the Curriculum and Composition faculty, focusing on how students transfer-or don’t-what they learn in their composition courses to their upper division and WAC courses. This workshop is generously funded by a grant from the [...]
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The Composition Colloquium, initiated with a PAE grant by Barbara Schneider in 2001 and sustained ever since with a variety of internal grants, is once again in full swing. The Colloquium was designed as a means of engaging the writing faculty in the scholarship of the field and has evolved as a means of collaboratively [...]