Celebrating all Writers at Mizzou

The ESL/Multilingual Writers website celebrates all writing at Mizzou and provides resources to support teachers and students in the writing process. If you'd like to submit a short piece see more info here.

2018-2019 Writing Intensive Teaching Award Winners

Congratulations to the 2018-2019 Writing Intensive Teaching Excellence Award Winners! Win Horner Award for Innovative Writing Intensive Teaching Deanna Sharpe, Personal Financial Planning   Writing Intensive Excellence Award Hye Jeong Choi, Health Sciences David Criger, Peace Studies Ben Herman, Science Education Jamille Palacios, Applied Social Sciences   Teaching Assistant WI Excellence Award Betsy Smith and…

Developing Inclusive Approaches to Russian Civilization Courses

These challenging experiences seem to me now to highlight problematic dynamics in the culture on campus and beyond, but also to underscore my own need for support and further education in inclusive teaching.

Campus Writing Program Annual Report 2017-2018

The Campus Writing Program is celebrating another great year of you, our WI faculty, who taught 380 WI courses in 2017-2018. Check out the year by the numbers (below) and read the full annual report here:   As one WI faculty member said in the spring 2018 evaluation, “Teaching with writing is a more personal, coaching…

MU Writing Intensive Instructor Wins Nobel Prize in Chemistry

Congratulations to Dr. Smith from the Campus Writing Program.  For more information:  https://missouri.edu/news/nobel-prize-smith.php  

Navigating One’s Writing History: Remarks on Teaching and Writing

Because I am Chair of the English department, you might imagine that I was a person who was born with a book in her hand, who loved writing papers in college, who always got A’s in her English classes – but none of those things are actually true.

Hold Me

You’ve been anticipating this appointment all week. Since your last appointment, when the woman with the bobby, curly hair held you gently and changed your mind— convinced you that you weren’t crazy. Or like your mom said, hormonal. Or like your dad said, bored. Your dad, an immigrant from the Bengali region who worked for…

Improving Computerized Charting in an Intensive Care Unit

Abstract The purpose of this study is to look deeper into an electronic medical record (EMR) system to find inefficiencies within the overall charting process. Along with collecting observation data on nurses within the University of Missouri Hospital Intensive Care Unit, EMR activity log data was gathered from the EMR system through a real time…

Freedom

You must wish I was still broken, Cracked...and slipping through your fingers.   You must loathe at the curve of my smile, now that it isn’t dependent on you.   The lies and deeds of this world don’t hold me captive anymore. I said, your lies and your deeds...they don’t hold me captive anymore.  …

A Technological Invasion

Technology is a very important part of our lives as almost every person with a cell phone would probably say. We live in a world where we rely on technology so much that in a way it controls us. Authors like Ray Bradbury and Isaac Asimov could portray this concept in the 1940s and 50s…