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February 6, 2018

PSU’s Cluster Composition Class Makes Digital Magazines

During the Fall 2017 semester, Professor Taylore Aussiker’s Composition class published several digital magazines to show that communication is not just textual, but also visual. The digital magazine publication assignment went hand in hand with the new Cluster Composition model, which was recently rolled out by Plymouth State University. These cluster classes aim to take a required course, Composition, and...
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January 25, 2018

PSU Student Works: Geneva’s “Koalaty” Student Teaching Blog

Plymouth State student Geneva Sambor has started a blog documenting her student teaching experience. Sambor’s blog, titled Koalaty Teacher, chronicles her day-to-day triumphs and obstacles as she enters the professional teaching realm. So far, her blog covers topics such as her student teaching hopes and fears, her relationship with her mentor teacher, and even reflects on past classroom experiences. Sambor...
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January 19, 2018

PSU Student Works: Lindsey DeRoche’s “Hypertext Memoir and Musings”

A nontraditional English course that ran during the Fall 2017 semester was Digitalit. This class’s content included various types of digital literature, such as generative poetry, GIF novels, and Twitterature. For the course’s final, students were invited to create a large-scale piece of digital literature. Because the course was designed in an open pedagogical fashion, students had the freedom to propose...
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November 24, 2017

English Student Takes Second at PSU Panther Pitch

Last week, English Education major Isabelle Elsasser took second place at Plymouth State University’s annual Panther Pitch competition. In the Panther Pitch, students propose a business or entrepreneurial idea that helps solve societal challenges on a local, national, or international level. PSU students of all disciplines and majors can participate in the event. Elsasser earned second place for her nonprofit,...
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November 15, 2017

Become a Graphic Novelist – Take ST: Comic Art & Narrative This Spring

In Spring 2018, Plymouth State University will offer a Topics in Writing course titled ST: Comic Art & Narrative (CRN 31480). This course, taught by English professor Dr. Elliott Gruner, will teach students how to create stories using sequential art. Sequential art, also known as “graphic narratives”, use sequences of images as a medium for storytelling. These works include comic strips, graphic...
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November 2, 2017

New English Courses on Mindfulness and Contemplation

In the upcoming Spring 2018 semester, Dr. Karolyn Kinane will be teaching two new ENDI courses that have a focus on Contemplative and Mindful studies. The Canon interviewed Dr. Kinane to learn more about these courses. What are courses you will be teaching this spring? I’ll be teaching two General Education courses this spring. One is Curiosity, Playfulness, and Creativity,...
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October 22, 2017

Data Visualization in Studies in English–a New Approach

As part of our new four credit curriculum at Plymouth State University, our intro to the major course, Studies in English, took on a new learning goal: data visualization. Our general education program requires all majors to have a “Quantitative Reasoning” connection within the discipline, so we thought we’d introduce students to new ways of thinking about reading, research, and...
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October 8, 2017

Reading Juvenilia with MESA

This past Thursday, MESA members and English students gathered at Plymouth State’s Frost House for a reading of juvenilia. Participants showed off their childhood and adolescent work, which included poetry, picture books, diary entrees, videos, and even fan fiction. About twenty English Department students participated in the reading; MESA hopes to bring the event, titled “MESA Memories”, back for the...
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