If you are a graduate student (MA or PhD) in the Rhetoric and Composition program at GSU, please take a few minutes to take the survey at the link below. The faculty are hoping to use your responses to track student progress in the program, to gauge interest in courses and additional programming, and to gather your feedback on your experiences. We appreciate your time and participation, and welcome your honest feedback. Thank you in advance!

https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/5HC5B5M

If you have any questions about the survey, please send them to Ashley Holmes at (aholmes@gsu.edu).

College juniors, seniors and graduate students are invited to apply to the Dow Jones News Fund for paid summer 2017 internships in data journalism, digital media, business reporting and interactive news editing. The application deadline is Nov. 1.

Visit the Dow Jones News Fund Internship Hub

The Dow Jones News Fund trains journalists in the newest newsgathering, editing and storytelling technologies.  All our programs emphasize emerging media trends and train interns to write for the web, adopt a data state of mind and use social media metrics.

In 2016, we placed 96 interns in 64 media organizations. In 2017, we are doubling our data and digital media programs and bolstering our interactive news editing program with a design hub.

Investigative Reporters and Editors (IRE) will train data journalists at the University of Missouri to work with spreadsheets, databases, software, FOIA requests and apps to unlock stories.

Digital media interns will brush up on podcasting, video production plus content management, responsive web design, social media best practices and audience development at Arizona State University in Phoenix.

The News Fund renamed its copy editing program interactive news editing with emphasis on Search Engine Optimization, page design and responsive web design. Interactive news editing interns will be trained at Temple University, Pennsylvania State University and the University of Missouri. Business reporting interns will train in New York City.

The University of Texas, Austin, will serve as the Fund’s interactive news editing design hub, with special emphasis placed on page design, headline writing, and data visualization.

The Fund and sponsoring media cover travel costs to and from training and to newsrooms. Interns are responsible for their housing and commuting costs during the internship. Students who return to school after successful internships will receive $1,000 college scholarships. Applicants must take a one-hour business reporting, editing or data/digital test(s) in addition to completing the online applications for the programs to which they are applying.

Visit our internship website  for more information about the residencies and internship programs and to find a test monitor on campus.

The program is open to U.S. students studying abroad. Students with questions can email djnf@dowjones.com.

Dow Jones News Fund

4300 Route 1 North

Monmouth Junction NJ 08852

A nonprofit foundation promoting media careers in the digital age.

Please share this information widely with folks who may be interested. Our department recently approved Spring admissions for our M.A. graduate programs, and we are currently accepting applications through Nov. 15, 2016 for Spring 2017.

The Georgia State University Department of English’s Rhetoric & Composition faculty invite applicants for our M.A. program for January 2017 admittance. You can learn more about our curriculum that encourages study in history and theory, as well as contemporary approaches to writing in both academic and non-academic settings, at our website: http://sites.gsu.edu/rhetcomp/.

We’ve graduated hundreds of M.A. and Ph.D. students over the past 20 years who consistently find work in academia, professional/technical writing, and academic administration; all of our recent graduates have found full-time employment. Some students in our M.A. program apply to continue their Ph.D. studies in our program.

Our faculty includes Beth Burmester, Lynée Lewis Gaillet, Baotong Gu, Michael Harker, Mary Hocks, Ashley Holmes, Elizabeth Lopez, Ben Miller, George Pullman, Malinda Snow, and Robin Wharton. Our eleven faculty members with broad research and teaching specializations make our program one of the largest Rhetoric & Composition programs in the Southeast. Every member of our faculty is recognized for scholarship, teaching excellence, and national service.

GSU Rhet/Comp-ers:

You have 3 opportunities with upcoming deadlines for presenting in Portland just before the CCCC in March 2017. The QRN and RNF are open to all researchers but are especially great for graduate students interested in getting some feedback on a work-in-progress, and ATTW is great for folks interested in professional and technical writing. We’ve had GSU grad students and faculty present at all of these in the past.

• Association of Teachers of Technical Writing (ATTW) Conference: Deadline is Oct. 15th, read details and the CFP on their website
• Research Network Forum (RNF): Deadline is Oct. 31st, details are on their website
• Qualitative Research Network (QRN): Deadline is Nov. 21st, see the CFP

Contact any of the Rhetoric and Composition faculty if you’d like to discuss ideas for your proposal or to receive feedback on a draft proposal.

RSAatGSU is the Rhetoric Society of America’s GSU grad student chapter.  We try to create a space for rhetoric and a collaboration between the Communication and English departments.

Who:RSAatGSU

What: First meeting of the Fall 2016 semeter

When: Friday, August 26 10:30 am

Where: 25 Park Place, Rm. 1113

While you’re enjoying these final weeks of summer before the start of the semester, take a few minutes to mark your calendar for the welcome back party for Rhetoric and Composition graduate students and faculty.

Sunday, August 28th, 4:00 PM at Dr. Pullman’s home

Note: Please RSVP to gpullman@gsu.edu, at which time you will receive location details.

Some drinks and light hors d’oeuvres will be provided; feel free to bring something of your own if you’d like.

We’ll hope to see you there! Please spread the word to other Rhet/Comp grad students you know in the program.

The Rhetoric Society of America‘s conference will be held this Thursday, May 26th through Sunday, May 29th at the Hilton in downtown Atlanta. We have a great representation of current GSU Rhetoric & Composition students and faculty, as well as a number of our alums! The conference program is challenging to search by institution type, so if I’ve missed your presentation, please send me an email (aholmes@gsu.edu) with your name, presentation title, and day/time, and I’ll add you to our list. We’ll have a number of our GSU Communications Department colleagues there, too, though the list below is for Rhet/Comp in English. Hope to see you at RSA!

Thursday, May 26

• 12:00 PM  – 6:00 PM, Preconference Career Retreat for Associate Professors, Dr. Lynee Gaillet, English, Georgia State University

Friday, May 27

• 2:00 PM  – 3:15 PM, “WeChat as Activist Agent: Rhetoric and Change in Transnational Publics,” Dr. Baotong Gu, English, Georgia State University, and Xiaobo Wang, Georgia State University
• 3:30 PM  – 4:45 PM, “Fortuitous Happenstance”: Serendipity in Archival Research,” Dr. Lynee Gaillet, English, Georgia State University
• 3:30 PM  – 4:45 PM, “Finding the Ideal (Woman) Orator: Changing the Idea and the Gender of Cicero’s and Quintilian’s Ideal Orator, with Revisionist Rhetoric and Feminist Historiography,” Dr. Beth Burmester, English, Georgia State University

Saturday, May 28

• 11:00 AM  – 12:15 PM, “Death, Suffering, and Power: Persuasions of Marcus Aurelius and the 14th Dalai Lama,” Kristen Ruccio, English, Georgia State University
• 3:30 PM  – 4:45 PM, “Ideology and History in Institutional Mission Statements: Supporting Contemporary Public Works of Rhetoric,” Dr. Ashley J. Holmes, English, Georgia State University

Sunday, May 29

• 9:30 AM  – 10:45 AM, “Institutional Success and Writing Centers: Reverting Back to Remediation,” Cristine Busser, English, Georgia State University
• 9:30 AM  – 10:45 AM, “Across Diverse Crisis Arenas: (Con) text Approach to Understanding Corporate Crisis and Communication in Intercultural Contexts,” Lin Dong, English, Georgia State University
• 11:00 AM – 12:15 PM, “Pricking Their Conscience: Quilts in Support of Abolition,” Dr. Marcia Bost, English, Shorter University (GSU alum)
• 12:30 PM  – 1:45 PM, “Ableist Rhetoric in Foundational Works of Rhetoric and Composition,” Kristen Ruccio, English, Georgia State University
• 2:00 PM  – 3:15 PM, “Transformative Language and Rhetoric: The Press and the Civil Rights Movement,” Dr. Lara Smith-Sitton, English, Kennesaw State University (GSU alum)
• 2:00 PM  – 3:15 PM, “Tracing Critical Pedagogy’s Rhetoric of Change: Paulo Freire, Myles Horton, and Stetson Kennedy as Brothers in the Struggle,” Dr. Helen Diana Eidson, English, Auburn University (GSU alum)
• 2:00 PM  – 3:15 PM, “Teaching Ethnography as a Means for Change and Action,” Lindsey Spring, Georgia State University 
• 2:00 PM  – 3:15 PM, “Speaking/Writing from the Margins: Ethos and the Civil Rights Movement,” Dr. Letizia Guglielmo, English, Kennesaw State University (GSU alum)