The Writing Department is pleased to announce the winners and runner-ups of the first annual Jan Rehner Writing awards. 1st Year Winner: Mikenna Zerby “From Fermata to Overture” WRIT 1003, Introduction to Professional Writing. Course Director: Andrea McKenzie Runner-up: Marina Mekael, “Destined Dystopia: An Analysis of Ignorance in Oryx and Crake” WRIT 1702, Becoming a Better Writer. […]
The Writing Department is planning to offer a new, experimental section of AP/WRIT 1400 (Y) 6.0 Critical Thinking, Reading, and Writing during the coming academic year. It’s modeled on non-threatening, peer-led book clubs that have been proven effective in getting reluctant readers to take up reading for pleasure rather than thinking of reading as an […]
Professional Writing students Katrina Leblanc and Jessia Arsenio interview MP Iqra Khalid, who graduated from York University with a double major in Professional Writing and Criminology. MP Khalid travelled to York especially to meet with Katrina and Jessia in our own Writing Department to make this video interview. Thanks to Katrina, Jessia, Mike O'Connor, Course […]
The Department of Writing is encouraging submissions for the Jan Rehner Prize for Writing from interested students and faculty until April 25, 2016. Any paper (one per person) written in any style may be nominated, so long as the final grade for the paper was at least 80%. The winner in each category will be […]
inQUERY, the first of From Scratch Media's podcast shows is now available! Listen as York's Professional Writing students explore our evolving relationship with information in a networked world. Featured episodes illuminate the absurd politics of online customer reviews, the lie behind the "world-wide" web,the emerging culture of citizen journalism, and more. Subscribe to Featured Episodes - From Scratch Media […]
Iqra Khalid, who is the new Liberal Member of Parliament for the riding of Mississauga-Erin Mills, graduated from York in 2007 with a double major in Criminology and Professional Writing. As article in the November 9th edition of yFile notes, 17 elective representatives to the Canadian Parliament have connections to York, but as a recent […]
Digital Writing Month 2015 is entering its first few frenzied, frantic, fanatical days, and immediately upon entry into November the questions arise: what is digital writing? who reads digital writing? who authors it? where does it end up? For the last four years, we’ve been asking these questions alongside participants in this month-long MOOC-like thing. […]
Would you like to spend a month experimenting with new forms of writing, or even just focusing on writing goals you have for yourself, amongst a supportive community? Would you like an opportunity to get inspired by other digital writers, and learn about different forms of digital expression? Would you like to find collaborators for […]
The annual Kitty Lundy Memorial Lecture honours the late Kitty Lundy, an admired educator of sociology who was associated with York’s former Atkinson Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies from 1986 to 1989. Wide-ranging in her accomplishments and interests, Ms. Lundy felt particular concern for the fields of education, occupations and women’s studies, and […]
On September 27th Leaping Lion Books made its first ever appearance at The Word On The Street. The day was a great success: current students met with program alumni and writers at WOTS learned about the press and York’s Professional Writing Program’s unique contributions to publishing. Organizers are already looking forward to next year! […]