The Writers Showcase series highlights recent work by established researchers in a range of fields. The series provides speakers an opportunity to discuss not only their research and scholarship, but the writing processes that underpin those efforts. Aiming to build an engaged community of scholars and writers across programs, departments, and colleges, the series selects speakers both within and outside of Franklin University.
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Spring 2023 Talk: Digital Educational Resources: Developing Frameworks to Appreciate Student Use
Brandy Bagar-Fraley and Marc Jaffy
Our first speaker, Dr. Brandy Bagar-Fraley, is Lead Faculty and the Assistant Director for the Center for Teaching Excellence at Franklin University. Her talk, “Thinking Small: The Importance of Nuance to Scholarly Writing and Research,” reflects on her experience writing “The Textbooks Are Too Damn High: Calling for a More Nuanced Evaluation of OERs,” which has been published in the CEA Critic.
Our second speaker, Marc Jaffy, is the Scholarly Communications and Affordable Learning Librarian at Franklin University. His talk, “(Writing About) Library Etextbooks at Franklin University,” reflects on his experience developing an article that examines a university library's etextbook initiative adopted to support affordable learning.
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Spring 2021 Talk: Finding Your Arc: The Intersection of Writing and Life
Suzanne Goldsmith
What makes a story? Goldsmith, a journalist, editor, essayist and novelist, describes how writing her first book, a work of narrative nonfiction, revealed the ability of the story arcs that are embedded in everyday life to power and give shape to a compelling narrative. This lesson later influenced her work as a fiction writer and magazine writer and editor -- and ultimately helped her to understand and embrace the twists and turns of her life as a writer.
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Fall 2020 Talk: Keep on Writing: Confessions of a Reluctant Writer
Mary L. Churchill
Academic and author, Dr. Mary Churchill, shares the story of her writing journey and how she went from writing avoidance as an undergraduate student to joining the #5amwritersclub accountability group on Twitter and publishing a book with Johns Hopkins University Press. Along the way, she shares her writing stories that include blogging at Inside Higher Ed and The Chronicle of Higher Ed as well as creating and launching three podcasts. She will share the details behind the making of her recent co-authored book and the tools and techniques she uses to keep on writing.