Welcome to Bedford’s WPA/Writing Director Workshop!
Well-being in First-Year Composition
We'll be presenting a week of professional development where you’ll learn best practices for incorporating wellness strategies into your course. Our event will feature a mix of interactive presentations, stress relief activities, and breakout sessions. We look forward to seeing you there!
Welcome to Bedford’s WPA/Writing Director Workshop!
Well-being in First-Year Composition
We'll be presenting a week of professional development where you’ll learn best practices for incorporating wellness strategies into your course. Our event will feature a mix of interactive presentations, stress relief activities, and breakout sessions. We look forward to seeing you there!
Themes for this year's sessions
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Denise Cady Arbeau
Professor and Faculty Advocate, North Shore Community College
Denise Cady Arbeau is a professor in the First Year and Foundational Literacy Department at North Shore Community College in Massachusetts. She was part of the team that developed the ALP courses that are now taught at the college—Composition and Seminar. In addition to the co-requisite course, Professor Cady Arbeau teaches First Year Experience, including a contextualized FYE course that centers on mindfulness.
Denise Cady Arbeau
Professor and Faculty Advocate, North Shore Community College
Denise Cady Arbeau is a professor in the First Year and Foundational Literacy Department at North Shore Community College in Massachusetts. She was part of the team that developed the ALP courses that are now taught at the college—Composition and Seminar. In addition to the co-requisite course, Professor Cady Arbeau teaches First Year Experience, including a contextualized FYE course that centers on mindfulness.
Cathryn Molloy
Associate Professor and Associate Director of Writing, Rhetoric and Technical Communication, James Madison University
Cathryn Molloy is the author of Rhetorical Ethos in Health and Medicine: Patient Credibility, Stigma, and Misdiagnosis (Routledge, 2020), and co-editor of the volumes Women's Health Advocacy: Rhetorical Ingenuity for the 21st Century (Routledge, 2019) and Strategic Interventions in Mental Health Rhetoric (Routledge, 2021). She is also co-editor of the Rhetoric of Health and Medicine journal. Her writing has appeared in College English, Rhetoric Review, Rhetoric Society Quarterly, Technical Communication Quarterly, Writing on the Edge, and Qualitative Inquiry.
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Camping with Friends
Connect with other corequisite colleagues for ideas, inspiration, and help
Always Be Prepared
Discover strategies to effectively teach Corequisite Composition
Make Room in the Tent
Explore best practices for incorporating diversity, equity, and inclusion into your teaching so every student can succeed
Camping with Friends
Connect with other corequisite colleagues for ideas, inspiration, and help
Always Be Prepared
Discover strategies to effectively teach Corequisite Composition
Make Room in the Tent
Explore best practices for incorporating diversity, equity, and inclusion into your teaching so every student can succeed
Meet some of our featured speakers!
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Integer dapibus magna ex, ut egestas nisi elementum quis. Nullam non lacus faucibus, mollis arcu vel, finibus risus.
Denise Cady Arbeau
Professor and Faculty Advocate, North Shore Community College
Denise Cady Arbeau is a professor in the First Year and Foundational Literacy Department at North Shore Community College in Massachusetts. She was part of the team that developed the ALP courses that are now taught at the college—Composition and Seminar. In addition to the co-requisite course, Professor Cady Arbeau teaches First Year Experience, including a contextualized FYE course that centers on mindfulness.
Cathryn Molloy
Associate Professor and Associate Director of Writing, Rhetoric and Technical Communication, James Madison University
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Michelle Day
High School English Teacher, American Heritage School
[Brief Speaker 03 Biography/Promo line (ie. Vance Gray is dean of social sciences at Atlanta Metropolitan State College (University System of Georgia) and instructor of political science at Spelman College and directs the First Year Experience P...)]
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Elizabeth Wardle
Roger and Joyce Howe Distinguished Professor of Written Communication Director, Howe Center for Writing Excellence
Miami University
Susan Miller-Cochran
Executive Director of General Education and Professor of English
University of Arizona
Kendra Mitchell
Director of Composition and Assistant Professor of English and Modern Languages
Florida A&M University
Doug Downs
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Corequisite Courses in Achieve
Achieve - our fully mobile, accessible, and flexible online learning system - now supports corequisite writing courses from within your Achieve course, or your LMS.
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More Resources and Events
Find out about upcoming events, watch recordings you may have missed and find useful content to help teach and engage students.
Continue the Conversation
Check out the Macmillan English community to find tips, ideas, inspiration and more from English instructors and Macmillan Learning solution experts.
Questions?
Contact Vivian Garcia with any questions about the WPA/Writing Director Workshop.
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