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Release Date: May 10, 2021. Released on Spotify and Buzzsprout. Now available right here.


Description

Writing assignments can often seem transactional; students write their essay or article, turn it into their teacher for a grade, and the rest is history. On Red-Penned Season 1 Episode 1, we consider the ways in which writing in the classroom can have a larger audience—not just the teacher. “Episode 1: Not Just the Teacher” highlights the benefits of writing for community through service-learning projects, writing for peers through peer review, and writing for yourself through reflective writing.


Guests

Caroline Young is an English Department Lecturer at UGA and serves as Site Director for Common Good Atlanta’s prison education program at Whitworth Women’s Facility in Hartwell, Georgia.  After a sixteen-year career in television broadcast promotion, Caroline transitioned to the academic world.  She teaches a range of literature and writing courses and is happiest when facilitating and participating in community writing practices that inspire personal and collective evolution.   

Lindsey Harding is the Director of the Writing Intensive Program at the University of Georgia. She serves as the faculty advisor and editor for The Classic, the Writing Intensive Program’s journal of undergraduate writing and research. In the English Department, she teaches writing courses in face-to-face and online environments, including Advanced Composition, Writing for the Web, and Honors Introduction to Creative Writing.

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Savannah Makowski is a fourth year English Education undergraduate student at UGA. She is an active sister of UGA’s social sorority Xi Delta and works as the assistant recruitment chair. Post grad, she hopes to work as a substitute teacher in Richmond County while pursuing higher education.


Show Notes & Links

Writing Intensive Program: https://wip.uga.edu/

The Classic Journal: https://theclassicjournal.uga.edu/

WIP’s Public Writing Initiative: https://wip.uga.edu/public-writing-initiative/

PeerDoc: https://www.rampantstrategy.com/

Citation for Topping’s 1996 Review of Peer Review Research: K. J. Topping. (1996). The Effectiveness of Peer Tutoring in Further and Higher Education: A Typology and Review of the Literature. Higher Education, 32(3), 321–345.

Peter Elbow’s believing game: https://digitalrhetorical.files.wordpress.com/2016/08/the-believing-game-methodological-believing.pdf

Mark Sample’s “What’s Wrong with Writing Essays”: https://dhdebates.gc.cuny.edu/read/untitled-88c11800-9446-469b-a3be-3fdb36bfbd1e/section/0d537071-72ca-4ea4-ab54-cb67b042e040

UGA Department of English spotlight on Dr. Young and teaching in prisons: https://www.english.uga.edu/teaching-prisons-2020-dear-scholars

Huffington Post article on Twitter fiction: https://www.huffpost.com/entry/twitter-fiction_n_7205686