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In the summer of 2014, when I arrived to begin my first tenure-track appointment at the Virginia ... more In the summer of 2014, when I arrived to begin my first tenure-track appointment at the Virginia Military Institute (VMI), which included a position as the coordinator of the writing center, I learned I would also coordinate the college’s ePortfolio initiative. Therefore, in addition to revitalizing a writing center in disrepute, I would also need to learn about and integrate ePortfolio pedagogy, assessment, and best practices into the writing center. Although my academic background is in rhetoric and composition and I had prior experience with assessment, I had not used or learned about ePortfolios during my graduate coursework. It is an understatement, then, to say that this new addition to my job induced anxiety. And I dealt with that anxiety in the way most academics do: through research. While research on ePortfolios as assessment tools is plentiful, I did not find much that discussed the intersection of ePortfolios and writing center pedagogies. Debates surrounded assessment, ...
Interpreting and Experiencing Disney: Mediating the Mouse
I dedicate this work to my husband, Todd Garriott. You are the reason I rediscovered Charles Town... more I dedicate this work to my husband, Todd Garriott. You are the reason I rediscovered Charles Towne Landing. Thank you, Todd, for your love and support through these five years of writing and research while we discovered our own love. And to my parents, the Reverend V. Creighton Evans, Junior, and Nina Evans. I never would have pursued a PhD in English if you hadn't provided me with an endless supply of novels, blank notebooks, and pens, and if you hadn't encouraged me to be weird. And to my grandmothers, Joan Welsh Evans, and the late Frances Grimball Ash. Together and separately, they taught me the best aspects of Southern culture. iii ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Thank you to all the staff at the South Carolina Department of Archives and History for pulling boxes of documents, for copying hundreds of pages of letters, memos, and reports, and for always being cheerful when I submitted yet another request for more boxes and more copies.
In the summer of 2014, when I arrived to begin my first tenure-track appointment at the Virginia ... more In the summer of 2014, when I arrived to begin my first tenure-track appointment at the Virginia Military Institute (VMI), which included a position as the coordinator of the writing center, I learned I would also coordinate the college’s ePortfolio initiative. Therefore, in addition to revitalizing a writing center in disrepute, I would also need to learn about and integrate ePortfolio pedagogy, assessment, and best practices into the writing center. Although my academic background is in rhetoric and composition and I had prior experience with assessment, I had not used or learned about ePortfolios during my graduate coursework. It is an understatement, then, to say that this new addition to my job induced anxiety. And I dealt with that anxiety in the way most academics do: through research. While research on ePortfolios as assessment tools is plentiful, I did not find much that discussed the intersection of ePortfolios and writing center pedagogies. Debates surrounded assessment, ...
Interpreting and Experiencing Disney: Mediating the Mouse
I dedicate this work to my husband, Todd Garriott. You are the reason I rediscovered Charles Town... more I dedicate this work to my husband, Todd Garriott. You are the reason I rediscovered Charles Towne Landing. Thank you, Todd, for your love and support through these five years of writing and research while we discovered our own love. And to my parents, the Reverend V. Creighton Evans, Junior, and Nina Evans. I never would have pursued a PhD in English if you hadn't provided me with an endless supply of novels, blank notebooks, and pens, and if you hadn't encouraged me to be weird. And to my grandmothers, Joan Welsh Evans, and the late Frances Grimball Ash. Together and separately, they taught me the best aspects of Southern culture. iii ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Thank you to all the staff at the South Carolina Department of Archives and History for pulling boxes of documents, for copying hundreds of pages of letters, memos, and reports, and for always being cheerful when I submitted yet another request for more boxes and more copies.