Paula Patch

As an MLA Bibliography Fellow for 2017-20, Senior Lecturer in English Paula Patch and her students will index materials from current and past issues of five composition and rhetoric journals for the MLA International Bibliography, a leading scholarly database in the modern languages.

In keeping with the values of the Women’s Forum, new women are taking leadership after a successful inaugural year.

Paula Patch described the outcome of a CATL Scholar project to revise tools education licensure candidates use to demonstrate grammar competency

Their presentation, “Co-Owners in Engaged Learning: Reimagining the Library/First-Year Writing Partnership as Community of Practice,” described the evolution of a model of library instruction for first-year writing students that simultaneously reflects and highlights the changing roles of librarians and their relationship to faculty. 

Paula Patch, senior lecturer in English and coordinator of the College Writing program at Elon, has been elected to a three-year term on the executive board of the Council of Writing Program administrators, a national association of faculty with professional responsibilities for directing writing programs. 

Paula Patch, lecturer in English, discussed the role of composition and rhetoric faculty who work off the tenure track 

Enjoy bagels and coffee as Shropshire discusses research she conducted at the Library of Congress on personal correspondence among Revolutionary War generals Nathanael Greene, George Washington, Charles Cornwallis, and more. 

Paula Patch discussed opportunities for non-tenure-track writing faculty as part of a panel, "Surviving and Thriving while Working off the
Tenure-Track: Gender, Contingent Labor, and Writing Instruction in the 21st Century," at the 2014 Conference on College Composition and Communication.

As part of a panel at the 2013 Conference on College Composition and Communication, English Lecturer and College Writing Coordinator Paula Patch described ways writing faculty and academic advisors in the Elon Athletics program share the responsibility for teaching and supporting the writing of student-athletes.