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Did you know that while 68% of first-year CSU students spend 10 or fewer hours a week writing (including things like social media and text messaging), the majority still feel they write more than their parents’ generation did at the same age? Read a summation of interesting and noteworthy results…

“How Santa Claus Came To Zone Whisky Alpha Romeo”, a play by Jean Yeager will be produced by Lucky Penny productions and Napa Valley Playhouse in Napa, CA as part of their “8 x 10 Holiday: A Festival of 10 Minute Plays” each Friday, Saturday and Sunday December 6 –…

Several Colorado State University Composition instructors participated in the NCTE Listening Tour which surveys 1st year writers regarding their level of preparation for college writing. CSU 1st year Composition students responded to the survey, and 89% indicated that they felt more than adequately prepared. Over 50% have not written for…

English Department Communications Internship Number of positions: 2 Internship term: Spring 2014 Semester, 15 weeks, January 21st – May 9th, 2014 Total credits: 2 Hours: 80 hours (40 per credit hour), approximately 5 per week Stipend: $500.00 Application Deadline: Friday, November 22nd, 2013 by 5:00 p.m. The English Department is…

The Department of English is conducting searches for three entry-level assistant professors: Applied Linguistics, Rhetoric and Composition with a Specialization in Digital Rhetorics, and Rhetoric and Composition with a Specialization in Public Rhetorics. See the details at http://jobs.libarts.colostate.edu.

SueEllen Campbell attended two meetings this summer. In June, with John Calderazzo, she presented her website work with Changing Climates at an American Geophysical Union conference on communicating climate science. (This was a Chapman conference, roughly 100 people with a focused topic.) In July, she took part in a multinational…

Kelley S. Kennedy (CSU Alumna and USA Today writer) will be talking about reporting, literary journalism, and her book on the Iraq war, They Fought for Each Other. An Army veteran herself, Kennedy was embedded with a combat unit and tells the story, from the troops’ point of view, of…

Dan Beachy-Quick’s novel, An Impenetrable Screen of Purest Sky, has just been published by Coffee House Press, and received a “starred review” from Kirkus, and his study on John Keats, A Brighter Word Than Bright: Keats at Work has just been published by Iowa University Press, and received a “starred review”…