Knights Write Showcase

We will kick off Knights Write with a brief welcome and our poster presentations. During the poster showcase, students from the First-Year Composition program and undergraduate Writing and Rhetoric courses will present (multimodal) posters that showcase their innovative research on a range of topics, including the importance of literacy and language, the rhetoric within diverse communities, and more. Attendees can view posters, listen, learn, and ask questions to student presenters.

This panel presentation features the findings of five students whose ENC 1102 research projects led them to new discoveries about the writing practices of diverse discourse communities online. Join us to learn more about the effects of writing and research!

• “Pick a Card: The Rhetoric of YouTube’s Tarot Fortune-Telling”
  o Presented by Elli Ta
• “Christian Parent Bloggers’ Rhetoric Towards Social Media use by Adolescents”
  o Presented by Hannah Robertson
• “The Successful Rhetoric of the TikTok Paleontology Community”
  o Presented by Emiliano Ramirez Munoz
• “Trying to Determine ‘Real’ Cinema: Analyzing Rhetoric in Online Debate Surrounding Digital and Film Cinematography”
  o Presented by Donovan Bell
• “The Handmaid’s Tale in Modern Media: How Emerging Media from The Handmaid’s Tale Influence Current Social Culture”
  o Presented by Samantha Pena

Our keynote presentation will feature Anuj Gupta, an Assistant Professor of Rhetoric and Composition at the University of South Florida whose work explores how writing technologies—especially generative AI—shape writers, genres, and society. His research, teaching, and design work include writing apps, data dashboards, and computationally enriched curricula. Join us to learn from his research experience with generative AI, coding literacy, human-computer interaction, user experience design, and mixed-methods inquiry.

This panel explores the ways that narratives, comics, and other graphics can intersect with health and medicine to communicate scientific information to lay audiences. Featuring students from ENC 3482H (Graphic Medicine) and ENC 3453 (Writing about Health and Medicine), this panel will challenge attendees to think about writing as so much more than alphabetic text.

Contrary to popular discourse, rhetoric isn’t just for politicians—it’s for everyone. In this presentation, five students from various majors will share their explorations of rhetoric and its power in our everyday lives. These ENC1101 projects remind us just how much rhetoric and writing matter even if we don’t always take the time to notice its impacts.

• “Rhetoric Within an Instagram DM”
  o Presented by Iris Burakovskiy
• “Rhetoric in a Thank You Letter to My Parents”
  o Presented by Sophie Van Houten
• “Studying Among Coffees”
  o Presented by Sarah Correa
• “Thanksgiving in Two Tongues”
  o Presented by Chloe Williams
• “Pursuing the Arboretum Trails”
  o Aden “Baxley”

The Knights Write Awards Ceremony recognizes outstanding presentations at the annual event and excellence in publication in several writing-related journals and magazines. We will be joined by College of Arts and Humanities Dean Jeffery Moore to honor and recognize award-winning writers and scholars.

This panel traces narratives of disability across time and space to reveal how seemingly disparate phenomena share common roots in eugenic logic that endures in present-day policies and futures. The presentations explore the ways eugenic ideologies construct narratives of disability that render certain bodies and minds invisible while hypervisualizing others as threats to be managed, controlled, or eliminated. Such narratives continue to shape present understandings of disability, citizenship, and bodily autonomy, demanding new models for an equitable future. Don’t miss this presentation that emerged as a collaboration between students from ENC 3375 (Rhetoric and Pop Culture: Lady Gaga and Disability) and ENC3383 (Disability Rhetoric).

In this panel, tutors from the University Writing Center will share perspectives shaped by their work with writers from a wide range of academic programs. In this session presenter will:

• Offer practical strategies for approaching college writing projects with purpose and an eye toward professional growth.
• Consider the ways that choices about topics and formats can transform course assignments into meaningful evidence of professional identity to showcase in ePortfolios or interviews
• Examine often-overlooked transferable skills, including collaboration, research, and communication, which are highly valued by employers and graduate programs.
• Explore ways to extend the impact of course projects beyond the classroom through opportunities for publication and presentation.

Don’t miss this session to learn more about the ways you can turn writing assignments into experiences that build confidence, demonstrate expertise, and support long-term academic and professional development. Presenters: Shia Kirby, Cameron Pufahl, and Mary Samuels