The Howe Center for Writing Excellence is excited to announce that nominations are now open for the 2024 Roger & Joyce Howe Award for Excellence in Disciplinary Writing Instruction.
Howe Center News
Sharing Howe Innovations Beyond Miami
The innovations happening in the Howe Center are being shared and taken up by others across the U.S. The International Writing Across the Curriculum Conference (IWAC) held at Clemson University in...
Congratulations to the Summer 2023 Faculty Writing Fellows Cohort
The Howe Center for Writing Excellence and Howe Writing Across the Curriculum (HWAC) program are thrilled to welcome 9 new Miami faculty members as Faculty Writing Fellows Program alumni.
The Writer’s Progress 2023 Brings Miami Writers Together to Celebrate a Year of Writing Excellence
The HCWE strives to foster a community of writers and writing on Miami’s campus, and to celebrate that culture of writing, we host an annual gathering called “The Writer’s Progres...
Dozens of Voters Turn Out for HCWE Co-Sponsored Save Democracy Event
King Library was abuzz with excitement on May 4th as dozens of faculty, staff, students, and other members of the Oxford community assembled to learn more about recent legislation which affects vot...
HWC Announces Winners for the Spring 2023 Poetry Contest
Each spring semester, the Howe Writing Center hosts a poetry contest In honor of National Poetry Month (April). For 2023, the HWC worked with University Libraries to promote the theme of “Wri...
Congratulations to the Spring 2023 Faculty Writing Fellows Cohort
The Howe Center for Writing Excellence and Howe Writing Across the Curriculum (HWAC) program are thrilled to welcome 10 new Miami faculty members as Faculty Writing Fellows Program alumni.
HWC Consultant Pens and Publishes Articles on Restrictive Ohio Voting Laws
In the wake of new Ohio laws that restrict voting, especially for out of state college students, Howe Writing Center (HWC) writing consultant and intrepid Miami Student reporter Meredith Perk...
HCWE Co-Sponsors Artificial Intelligence Conference for Ohio Educators
New forms of artificial intelligence (AI), such as ChatGPT, have caused quite the stir in education circles in recent months. The advances in large language models have led many educators at all le...
Writers Share Goals and Reflections from HWC Junior Faculty Writing Hours
The Howe Writing Center’s Junior Faculty Writing Hours Challenge provides time, space, support, and structure for junior faculty members to pursue their writing goals. Part of this program in...
Every spring semester, the Howe Writing Center hosts a poetry contest that challenges writers with specific prompts. This spring, the HWC is partnering with University Libraries for the theme of &#...
Headline Highlights: Miami and Miamians in the news in March
Our editors' picks for March give a snapshot of recent news media coverage
HWAC Graduate Assistant Director Receives CCCC Emergent Researcher Award
We at the Howe Center for Writing Excellence are proud to announce that our very own Will Chesher, graduate assistant director with Howe Writing Across the Curriculum, is a recipient of the 2022-20...
HCWE Announces 2023 Howe Award Recipients
Each spring semester, the Howe Center for Writing Excellence presents the Roger and Joyce Howe Award for Excellence in Disciplinary Writing Instruction. This award recognizes individual faculty mem...
National Reading Month: Expand Your Ideas About Reading and Writing
March is National Reading Month, a celebration that encourages reading for all ages and promotes reading as a key feature for learning, social, and professional development.
Excerpts from the Asynchronous Graduate Writing Hours Progress Log
One of the major components of this spring’s Howe Writing with Community Support program is The Progress Log, an asynchronous opportunity for writers to share their progress and build a suppo...
Howe Writing Center Announces Additional Writing Hours Programs for Spring 2023
The Howe Writing Center is excited to announce two additional sets of writing hours for specific groups of individuals on Miami’s campus. For creative writers, HWC consultants are hosting a C...
HWC Graduate Assistant Director Emma Boddy Participates in 2023 Three Minute Thesis Competition
If you had to explain your thesis in three minutes or less, could you do it? The Dr. Gerald H. Sanders Three Minute Thesis Competition, hosted by the Miami University Graduate School, asks graduate...
Howe Center for Writing Excellence News Roundup for February and March 2023
February may just be the busiest month yet for the Howe Writing Center. Not only have Graduate Writing Hours begun, guided by new programming introduced to further develop the community and collabo...
The Benefits of a Writing Consultant Classroom Visit
Classes are well underway at Miami University, and before long, students will have to write papers and projects to submit for grading. Faculty can better prepare their students for their written as...
Graduate Writing Hours Return with New Programming for Spring 2023 Term
One of the Howe Center for Writing Excellence’s guiding principles is that writing is social and rhetorical. Writers benefit greatly from collaborating and sharing their work with each other,...
Authors, Accolades, and Achievements
HCWE Announces Several AI Workshops During Spring 2023 Term
The Howe Center for Writing Excellence is happy to announce several resources and workshops that faculty can utilize to learn more about artificial intelligence and the impact it will have on instr...
Have a Writing Goal This Year? These Strategies Will Help Enable Long-Term Success
At the start of a new year, many people set goals to work toward. We asked our staff at the HCWE and our writing consultants what strategies they use to work toward their writing goals. Our aim in ...
Peer review, also known as peer response or peer assessment, plays an important role in supporting student writers as they navigate the challenges of the writing process. In Spring 2023, the Howe C...
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