Ask the Expert: Chris Rosenblum

State College Area School District Communications Director and journalist for over twenty years Chris Rosenblum spoke with students in Heather Holleman’s professional writing classroom about what makes a “storytelling approach” to writing attractive to future...

Ask the Expert: Ali Warren Rothrock

Local writer Ali Warren Rothrock visited Alison Jaenicke’s creative writing students to talk about the writing process. Students wanted to know, specifically: How do you know when writing is “done”? See the video below for her answer, and click here...

Speaking Grief

Commissioner Kristin Bittner, Instructional Designer, WPSU Penn State Recommended Course(s) English 30, 202B Assignment This commissioned assignment gives students the opportunity to be part of promoting a public documentary, Speaking Grief, to students as well as to...

Setting our Sights on Professional Writing

Our definition of the “public” expanded beyond the State College borough for one advanced technical writing class this summer. Students in English 418 composed new engaging handouts and museum placards for the Optical Heritage Museum in Southbridge, Massachusetts....