The Center for Teaching and Research on Writing presents a research roundtable with Emily Bouza, a doctoral student in the English Department’s Composition and Rhetoric program. Bouza will describe a model of Writing Across the Curriculum that has been tested with the UW–Madison Civil and Environmental Engineering department to help them name and build upon the department’s intersecting values on writing, social justice, and curriculum. The approach draws from methods of community-based research so that the department is treated as an existing community with values, practices, and knowledge that should be understood and built upon as additional initiatives are developed. It builds on methods typical to community-based research such as entering the community, rhetoric of respect, community values mapping, community listening, and collaboration.
The talk will be held on Tuesday, Feb. 14, from noon to 1:15 p.m. in 7191 Helen C. White Hall.
Bouza has worked in and researched writing pedagogy for ten years. She has held positions as a writing tutor, a writing center and writing across the curriculum administrator, and a writing instructor for classes including basic and intermediate composition. Her research centers around linguistic justice, writing across the curriculum, and writing tutoring. She is currently finishing her dissertation and teaching intermediate composition.