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Research and Scholarship in Composition Studies at TTU

Graduate students teaching in the FYW program have the opportunity to engage in research and scholarship related to composition pedagogy and theory. Below is a selection of recent conference presentations and publications by faculty and graduate students that has come out of research and experiences teaching in TTU's FYW program:

Conference Presentations

Callie Kostelich, Sierra Sinor, & Maeve Kirk. (2019, November). Stronger together: Feminist teaching and mentoring in First-Year Writing at Texas Tech (Panel). Feminisms and Rhetorics Conference, James Madison University.

Michael J. Faris. (2019, July). 3,000 podcasts a year: Administering new media composition in a first-year writing program (Presentation). Council of Writing Program Administrators Conference, Baltimore, MD.

Michael J. Faris, Callie Kostelich, Tanner Walsh, Sierra Sinor, Michelle Flahive, & Leah Heilig. (2019, June). 3,000 podcasts a year: Teaching and administering new media composition in a first-year writing program (Panel). Computers and Writing Conference, East Lansing, MI.

Michael J. Faris, William Brown, Callie F. Kostelich, Monica Norris, & Katie Sanchez. (2019, March). Mega-composition: Performing teaching and writing by delivering first-year writing as a large lecture (Panel). Conference on College Composition and Communication, Pittsburgh, PA.

Rebecca Rickly, Monica Norris, Michael J. Faris, Leah Heilig, Katie Sanchez, & William Brown. (2018, July). What if we completely revised a FYW program in only one year (Panel). Council of Writing Program Administrators Conference, Sacramento, CA.

Publications

Michael J. Faris, Callie F. Kostelich, Tanner Walsh, Sierra Sinor, Michelle Flahive, & Leah Heilig. (2020). 3,000 podcasts a year: Teaching and administering new media composition in a first-year writing program. In Chen Chen & Lydia Wilkes (Eds.), The proceedings of the Annual Computers and Writing Conference, 2019. The WAC Clearinghouse. https://wac.colostate.edu/resources/wac/proceedings/cw2019/