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UNC Stands with Mizzou Rally
The UNC Stands with Mizzou rally takes place at the Chapel Hill campus on Friday, Nov. 13 at 11:00 a.m. This recent wave of student activism is germane to our course and something we will discuss. |
Optional Event Opportunity
Here's another option if you want to take advantage of the Optional Event: Lookout Books, the award-winning literary imprint of the Department of Creative Writing at UNCW, invites you and your Writing and Activism students to the launch of Matthew Neill Null’s environmental novel, Honey from the Lion, on Tuesday, November 17. A book signing and reception will follow the 7 p.m. reading with Null and Pulitzer Prize-winning author Edward P. Jones in Morton Hall, room 100. |
Azalea Festival Paid Practicum Positions
The North Carolina Azalea Festival is looking to fill two paid practicum (internship) positions. Both are about 10 hours per week and provide an opportunity to learn about the inner workings of a large-scale event. Details are linked below. |
Sample Visualizations now shared
The sample visualizations we found are now shared through this link. |
Conflicting Notions of Activism
This article about nuclear weapons proliferation addresses contemporary forms of activism. |
Resources about Research Questions
You can find your own resources about developing research questions (Lisa Coats, the English liaison librarian, is a good one), but here are a few to get you started. |
English Writing Internships
All Junior or Senior English majors should consider applying for a writing internship. To be eligible you must have a GPA of at least 3.0 in the major and 2.5 overall. Internships are available in wide variety of areas, so you should be able to find something that fits your interests. Submit your application through this short online form or contact Dr. Lance Cummings with questions. |
Effects of the Ice Bucket Challenge
This article discusses tangible ways the ice bucket challenge helped further ALS research and mentions "slacktivism," a concept we've addressed in class. |
Animal Language
This video about animal language use and these links about whale dialects (here and here) connect with our discussion of Rhetoric for Radicals chapter 3. |