March 12, 2018

Upcoming Professional Development Opportunities: March-April

Nervous about graduation? Feel like you need to develop your professional image? Come join in on the career development opportunities coming this March and April! These opportunities are perfect for English majors who wish to step into professional careers after graduation, or for those looking to improve their professional persona. Senior Professional Dinner Thursday, March 29, 6:00pm-8:00pm Merrill Place Conference...
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March 2, 2018

PSU Student Works: Shayla Locke’s YA Novel “Rise From the Ashes”

This fall, Plymouth State University offered a Special Topics in Writing course on Young Adult Fiction. This writing-intensive class, held by Professor Joseph Monninger (a veteran YA novelist), had students work on a singular, novel-length piece of YA fiction throughout the entire course. Senior English major Shayla Locke was one of the students who dipped their toes into writing for young...
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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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January 17, 2018

Plymouth State’s Open Textbook to be Featured at OER Conference

You have been hard at work all semester–researching, teaching, blogging, and writing their own literary prefaces based on topics such as nonhumans, reproduction, slavery, and social activism. As you all know, part of your work includes the creation of this newest iteration of PSU’s “Open Anthology of Earlier American Literature”–an ongoing, open-access, digital anthology of […] via THE OPEN ANTHOLOGY OF...
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November 27, 2017

Amazon to Make “The Lord of the Rings” TV Series

The journey through Middle-earth continues… Amazon has announced that it will be producing a multi-season, television adaptation based off of J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings book series. The adaptation will cover events preceding the series’ first book, The Fellowship of the Ring. Users of the website Reddit have argued that the television adaptation should be considered less of a Lord of the Rings series, and...
Categories Literature/News
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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