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05/19/2026

WRTC faculty Meghalee Das, PhD has published a book titled "Collaborative Writing at Work: A Playbook for Teams" (Parlor Press), co-authored with Jason Tham (Texas Tech University) and Joe Moses (University of Minnesota). The book offers a practical framework that integrates design thinking and Agile methodologies to help teams improve their collaborative writing processes and produce stronger workplace documents. More information and ordering details are available here: https://parlorpress.com/products/collaborative-writing-at-work.

05/14/2026

We are so proud of our students!

05/07/2026

Meghalee Das, Ph.D., was awarded a $5,000 Course Development Grant by the College of Arts and Letters to support the development of a new graduate course, Design Thinking in Technical Communication. Planned as a cornerstone of the evolving WRTC graduate curriculum, it integrates design thinking with technical communication, emphasizing user-centered, ethical, and collaborative approaches to designing across contexts. The course draws on Das’s research in design, collaboration, and communication practices, and also has strong potential for application in upper-level undergraduate courses

05/01/2026

Congratulations Hairat!

04/29/2026

Congratulations Samantha!!

04/27/2026

Hey WRTCers!

Looking for a way to grow your writing skills and your resume and get paid? Consider applying for a student editorial position with JMU's Content Management. This position could also count for an internship to satisfy your WRTC 495 requirement. Contact Jim Heffernan at [email protected] if interested.

And reach out to Jen Almjeld at [email protected] with any questions about this or other internship opportunities.

04/16/2026

Collaboration in action! Students in Dr. Meghalee Das’s WRTC 103: Rhetorical Reading and Writing course partnered with consultants-in-training from Dr. Emily Bouza’s WRTC 336: Writing Consultation course at the University Writing Center for an engaging peer review session. WRTC 336 students provided thoughtful feedback to WRTC 103 students on their annotated bibliography drafts, creating a meaningful exchange between writers and emerging consultants. This cross-course collaboration strengthened students' revision skills while giving consultants-in-training valuable, real-world experience. A great example of learning through community and practice!

04/13/2026

Huge congratulations to faculty member Rodolfo "Rudy" Barrett, whose chapter "The Machine Genie: Instructional Metaphors for LLM Text Production" is out now in Writing Centers and AI: Generating Early Conversations, a new open-access collection from the WAC Clearinghouse!

Drawing on surveys and interviews with writing center practitioners, Rudy's chapter examines the metaphors people use to make sense of large language models—from "shortcut" to "fallible collaborator"—and what those metaphors mean for how we teach and talk about AI.

The full book is free to read at https://wacclearinghouse.org/books/perspectives/generating/. Congratulations, Rudy!

04/10/2026

We're so proud of Joni Hayward Marcum, whose chapter "Recentering Writing Centers to Address the Hidden GenAI Curriculum" has just been published in Writing Centers and AI: Generating Early Conversations, a new open-access collection from the WAC Clearinghouse!

Co-authored with Lisa Bell of Utah Valley University, Joni's chapter explores how writing centers are uniquely positioned to help students develop AI literacy—not just surface-level use, but the layered literacies and often invisible foundations that make meaningful and ethical use of generative AI possible.

The full book is free to read at https://wacclearinghouse.org/books/perspectives/generating/. Congratulations, Joni!

04/08/2026

Spring has sprung on the quad, and it is a beautiful time to visit campus! The School of Writing, Rhetoric & Technical Communication, home of JMU's Writing Major, looks forward to welcoming accepted students and their families to the JMU Admitted Student Open House this Friday! Stop by our info table in Wilson Hall 10:00-2:00 or attend our presentation at 11:15 in Wilson 2001 to learn more about the major and minor in Writing! See you there!

04/06/2026

Tiffany Wilgar (all pronouns) is joining the School of Writing, Rhetoric and Technical Communication this Fall, and is coming to JMU from Fairfield University where she co-built the current first-year writing and writing across the curriculum programs. Tiffany did their doctoral work at the University of South Florida in Tampa where they developed a research interest in technical communication and rhetoric of science. She currently researches rhetorical presentations of risk in technical documents associated with the Nevada Test Site, a nuclear testing facility located roughly sixty miles outside of Las Vegas, NV. Tiffany has taught a variety of writing courses across a total of five universities where she has been the recipient of research, teaching, and activism awards.

Fun fact: Tiffany loves beautiful light. She collects string lights, paper lights, colorful lamps, and she is fascinated by bioluminescence.

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Tuesday	8am - 5pm
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Thursday	8am - 5pm
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