Paula Patch

Along with other members of the Penguin Random House Common Reads Advisory Board, Paula Patch, associate director of the Common Reading Program and First-Year Foundations in the Elon Core Curriculum and associate teaching professor of English, facilitated a half-day workshop on launching and sustaining a Common Reading program at the annual Conference on the First-Year Experience in Seattle in February.

Penguin Random House Higher Education selected Paula Patch, senior lecturer in English and associate director for First-Year Initiatives in the Elon Core Curriculum, to join the seven-member board that advises the publisher and authors about trends and issues in Common Reading programs.

The lecturers in English write about what they've learned from seven years of teaching the College Writing for High School Juniors course they created.

Patch, senior lecturer in English and College Writing (ENG 110) Coordinator, has been elected vice president of the Council of Writing Program Administrators. She will become president of the organization in 2021.

Heather Lindenman, assistant professor of English, recently published three essays: one about student revision practices and two about community-engaged writing.

Margaret Chapman and Paula Patch gave multiple presentations at the annual conference of the Council of Writing Program Administrators.

The group described the procedure and results for a collaborative assessment of first-year writing students' source use during a panel at the International Writing Across the Curriculum Conference at Auburn University in June.

Paula Patch, senior lecturer in English and College Writing Coordinator, presented on a crosscultural approach to teaching first-year writing at the 5th annual Southern Regional Composition Conference in Memphis.

Assistant professor of English Jennifer Eidum Zinchuk chronicles and assesses a pre-college transitional writing course that focuses on building students’ metacognition, confidence, and fluency in writing.

English and Writing Studies faculty Jennifer Zinchuk and Paula Patch presented at the Council of Writing Program Administrators Conference in Knoxville in July.