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HWAC Graduate Assistant Director Receives CCCC Emergent Researcher Award
We at the Howe Center for Writing Excellence are proud to announce that our very own Will Chesher, graduate assistant director with Howe Writing Across the Curriculum, is a recipient of the 2022-20...
HCWE Announces 2023 Howe Award Recipients
Each spring semester, the Howe Center for Writing Excellence presents the Roger and Joyce Howe Award for Excellence in Disciplinary Writing Instruction. This award recognizes individual faculty mem...
National Reading Month: Expand Your Ideas About Reading and Writing
March is National Reading Month, a celebration that encourages reading for all ages and promotes reading as a key feature for learning, social, and professional development.
Excerpts from the Asynchronous Graduate Writing Hours Progress Log
One of the major components of this spring’s Howe Writing with Community Support program is The Progress Log, an asynchronous opportunity for writers to share their progress and build a suppo...
Howe Writing Center Announces Additional Writing Hours Programs for Spring 2023
The Howe Writing Center is excited to announce two additional sets of writing hours for specific groups of individuals on Miami’s campus. For creative writers, HWC consultants are hosting a C...
HWC Graduate Assistant Director Emma Boddy Participates in 2023 Three Minute Thesis Competition
If you had to explain your thesis in three minutes or less, could you do it? The Dr. Gerald H. Sanders Three Minute Thesis Competition, hosted by the Miami University Graduate School, asks graduate...
Howe Center for Writing Excellence News Roundup for February and March 2023
February may just be the busiest month yet for the Howe Writing Center. Not only have Graduate Writing Hours begun, guided by new programming introduced to further develop the community and collabo...
The Benefits of a Writing Consultant Classroom Visit
Classes are well underway at Miami University, and before long, students will have to write papers and projects to submit for grading. Faculty can better prepare their students for their written as...
Graduate Writing Hours Return with New Programming for Spring 2023 Term
One of the Howe Center for Writing Excellence’s guiding principles is that writing is social and rhetorical. Writers benefit greatly from collaborating and sharing their work with each other,...
Authors, Accolades, and Achievements
HCWE Announces Several AI Workshops During Spring 2023 Term
The Howe Center for Writing Excellence is happy to announce several resources and workshops that faculty can utilize to learn more about artificial intelligence and the impact it will have on instr...
Have a Writing Goal This Year? These Strategies Will Help Enable Long-Term Success
At the start of a new year, many people set goals to work toward. We asked our staff at the HCWE and our writing consultants what strategies they use to work toward their writing goals. Our aim in ...
Peer review, also known as peer response or peer assessment, plays an important role in supporting student writers as they navigate the challenges of the writing process. In Spring 2023, the Howe C...
Register Today: Upcoming J-Term and Spring 2023 Workshops at the HCWE
J-Term has officially begun, and with Spring 2023 just around the corner, the Howe Center for Writing Excellence would like to extend an invitation to faculty and graduate students to register for ...
The Howe Center for Writing Excellence would like to remind the Miami University community that nominations for the Roger & Joyce Howe Award for Excellence in Disciplinary Writing Instruction a...
Congratulations to the Fall 2022 Faculty Writing Fellows Cohort
The Howe Center for Writing Excellence and Howe Writing Across the Curriculum (HWAC) program is thrilled to welcome 11 new Miami faculty members as Faculty Writing Fellows Program alumni.
HCWE Raises Over $450 Through Salvation Army Hamilton Corp's Sponsorship Program
During the months of November and December, the Howe Center for Writing excellence accepted donations as part of the Salvation Army Hamilton Corp’s sponsorship program.
HWC Announces Winners for the Fall 2022 Writing Contest
The Howe Writing Center hosts a writing contest every fall, with the latest contest having a focus on works evoking autumn. The fall writing contest challenged writers to create a piece of writing ...
Junior Faculty and Graduate Students Take Part in HCWE’s Fall 2022 Writing Hours
During the months of September and October, the Howe Center for Writing Excellence hosted two separate sets of writing hours for two distinct populations of writers on Miami's campus: graduat...
The Howe Center emphasizes that writing is collaborative, and as such, so is the scholarship surrounding it. From October 27 through October 29, 2022, three graduate students at Miami University...
Every year, the Howe Center for Writing Excellence sponsors children through the Salvation Army’s Hamilton Corp as a means to give back to the community and do some good over the holiday seas...
Miami faculty have long been recognized as innovative teachers and teacher/scholars. Those characteristics are on full display to a national audience in a new book available now for pre-order, Chan...
They will be honored at a reception during the Graduate Research Forum Nov. 4
In Summer 2021, Alex Arreguin and Stacy Wilson–two English faculty members from Mesa Community College–had a vision for the future of writing instruction within the ten-college Maricopa...
The Latest Miami Writing Spotlight Highlights Transformative Capstone Design
The latest Miami Writing Spotlight is now available on the Howe Writing Across the Curriculum website. This spotlight, titled “Designing Transformative Capstones: Using Writing to Take Action...
HCWE Staff Welcome Local and National Advisory Boards to the Howe Center for Writing Excellence
King Library was abuzz with excitement in the week leading up to the Howe Center for Writing Excellence’s National Advisory Board meeting--the first in-person event since 2019. Donors Roger a...
Celebrate Spooky Season with HWC’s Fall 2022 Writing Contest
It’s time for another Howe Writing Center contest! This year, HWC consultants ask writers to submit a short work of writing depicting the season of autumn.
Response, Not Review: Impressions from Facilitating Effective Peer Response
How do faculty in disciplines outside of writing build peer response into their curriculum and course design? This was the key question at hand during “Facilitating Effective Peer Response,&#...
The Roger & Joyce Howe Center for Writing Excellence has earned three national awards in 2022 for outstanding writing scholarship and program development.
The mission of the HCWE is to ensure that Miami supports its students in developing as effective writers in college, and fully prepares all of its graduates to excel as clear, concise, and persuasive writers in their careers, communities, and personal lives.
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