In a workshop hosted by the Chemistry Department this semester, a group of 25 JSU graduate students asked, "What is 'scholarly writing'?" We love questions like this, especially when students look to us for an explanation. The students said they heard about scholarly writing a lot and weren't sure what their professors meant. Instead of...Read More

Kiyadh Burt, a Political Science Major and Peer Tutor in RWC, Talks on Channel One  About Being Black in America  Now former peer tutor Kiyadh Burt was interviewed in spring 2015 by Channel One, a news station that broadcasts to over 5 million middle and high school students! He spoke on the anniversary of the Civil War, the Black...Read More

Avoiding "Academic Bullshit": Meeting Disengaged Students Where They Are* -Kathi R. Griffin “This is boring.” “This is stupid.” “I shouldn’t have to take this class. It’s pointless. I’m a good writer!” “I hate to write.” “I hate to read AND write.” Having been in first-year college composition classrooms for twenty years, I have heard students’...Read More

The Richard Wright Center on the Road! Kathi Griffin–Director of RWC Fifteen years ago, while working as writing center coordinator at Millsaps College, I asked if I could attend a writing center event at Tougaloo College. When the director said yes, I asked if I could invite other writing center folks I knew from Mississippi...Read More

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This blog was originally posted on October 6, 2014 by Transitioning to College Writing at the University of Mississippi. Kathi R. Griffin, Instructor of English and Director of the Richard Wright Center for Writing, Rhetoric, and Research – Jackson State University During our first discussion of a reading in Comp I this fall, a student asserted, “I’m entitled to...Read More