Events in the College of Arts and Humanities
Join us for Knights Write! This two-day event celebrates excellence in writing at UCF. Attendees will have the opportunity to view poster presentations displaying writing research projects, attend various panel presentations that discuss writing-related issues and ideas, and celebrate award-winning student work. This is event is hosted by the Department of Writing and Rhetoric, which contributes a vertical writing curriculum …
CAH EventsStudents from the First-Year Composition program and undergraduate students in Writing and Rhetoric courses present (multimodal) posters representing their thoughtful research on a range of topics, including the importance of literacy and language, the rhetoric within diverse communities, embodied texts, the impact of influential texts, and more. Attendees can view posters, listen, learn, and ask questions to student presenters.
CAH EventsType Out LoudCurated by Ashley Taylor & Dori Griffin Broadside: A single sheet of paper printed on one side only. AKA: poster. Broadsides have been a popular ephemeral format for distributing news, announcements, advertisements, social commentary, and ballads for centuries. This exhibition highlights the social role broadsides play in communicating messages to public audiences. Designed to be plastered onto walls …
CAH EventsWhat does Dungeons and Dragons have in common with World of Warcraft, architecture, front desk agents, and deaf YouTube communities? They’re all sites where people use rhetoric, writing, and literacies to accomplish tasks and meet community goals. In this panel presentation, first-year student writers share how tools of discourse communities such as genre, digital communication, and embodied writing, allowed them …
CAH EventsStarting a writing assignment, and don’t know where to begin? The University Writing Center’s Drop-In Drafting Lab can help! No appointments required — you can drop in during our open hours and: clarify assignment expectations develop a plan brainstorm ideas or just spend time writing! Any and all writers are welcome! The Drafting Lab will be unavailable on the following …
CAH EventsThis panel brings forward writers and student editors from the peer-reviewed undergraduate research journal Convergence/Rhetoric.
CAH EventsWelcome Dr. Sheila Carter-Tod as she tells a story—a sort of hero’s journey. In her presentation, she traces her experiences with AI usage and explores how she has knowing (and unknowingly) considered what a great tool of assistance and generative power AI could be. Then, she shares how she had to wrestle with and critically consider the inclusive and exclusive …
CAH EventsThe University Writing Center (UWC) provides members of the UCF community with individual and group peer consultations at any stage of the writing process. In this session, a panel of experienced UWC student consultants share experiences and perspectives they’ve gained from working in the center. This session includes discussions of how and why they became writing consultants, what they’ve learned …
CAH EventsThis roundtable session features students offering short PechaKucha-like presentations of the visual learning pathways that they developed in their Professional Lives and Literacy Practices course. Designed to help students intentionally plan and connect their learning across a range of experiences, the learning pathways are used by students to track their learning and receive feedback from advisors, mentors, and peers. The …
CAH EventsDavid Bartholomae’s widely read pedagogical text “Inventing the University” has influenced the teaching of college composition for nearly four decades. In his article, Bartholomae suggests that writers build bridges through commonplace with language. While the article considers how novice writers construct texts for the university, this frame serves as a lens to consider how graduate students move from the role …
CAH EventsThis session features graduate students hosting short presentations about the network sense mapping projects they created in the Rhetoric and Composition Colloquium course. Network sense, popularized in composition studies by scholars such as Derek Mueller, is defined as a means of understanding disciplinarity through visual methods. Whether you’re a seasoned rhetorician or someone unfamiliar with the field, we invite you …
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