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Study Highlights Importance of Multimodal Communication in Higher Ed

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Feb 17, 2017

Arthur Berger, Conference

Arthur Berger, second-year MS in Technical Communication graduate student, presented “Tracing the Boundaries of Clear Language in Federal Solicitations through Verbal Data Analysis” at the 2017 Carolina Rhetoric Conference in Columbia, SC on February 10, 2017.

Feb 17, 2017

2017 AEGS Conference Call for Papers

The Association of English Graduate Students (AEGS) of North Carolina State University is pleased to announce its Call for Papers for the 2017 AEGS Conference on April 1, the theme of which is “Collaborative Discourse.” This theme, as well as the conference as whole, is meant to be widely inclusive. Graduate and undergraduate students, as…

Feb 17, 2017

Graduate Research Symposium Participants

The MA and MS programs are pleased to announce the participants in this year’s NC State Graduate Research Symposium:  MA English Karen Eisenhauer “Directives in Disney and Pixar Movies: A Quantitative Analysis” Advisor: Agnes Bolonyai  Frankie Pennington “Making a Confession: Tag Questions as Manipulative Discourse Markers”Advisor: Agnes Bolonyai  Ari Janoff “Third Dialect In Santa Barbara, California: An Examination of…

Oct 27, 2016

SpeedCon Unconference 2016

The SpeedCon Unconference 2016 was a great success, with presenters and attendants from IBM, RedHat, and other companies in the RTP area.  Please join us in congratulating our officers of our Technical Communication Association (TCA), our tireless TCA faculty advisor, Julia Gonzales, and numerous volunteers on hosting such a successful event!  We had many MSTC students who…

Oct 4, 2016

Graduate Certificate in Digital Humanities Open House

On Monday October 3rd, Dr. Paul Fyfe hosted the Fall 2017 Graduate Certificate in Digital Humanities Open House at the Rick’s Hall Circuit Studio.  The event yielded a lively discussion about digital humanities across diverse academic fields. For more information about the Graduate Certificate in Digital Humanities, please visit http://dh.chass.ncsu.edu/grad/. 

Oct 4, 2016

Arthur Berger, Graduate Student Research Competition Winner

Arthur Berger, a second year MS in Technical Communication student, won Second Place in the Graduate Student Research Competition at the SIGDOC Conference on September 26th in Silver Spring, MD.

May 27, 2016

Alyssa Wong, Award

We are delighted to announce that first-year MFA Fiction student, Alyssa Wong, has won the Nebula Award this year in the Best Short Story Category for “Hungry Daughters of Starving Mothers.” This is a major award for Science Fiction writers. Congratulations to Alyssa.  For more details go to:   http://www.npr.org/2016/05/16/478269681/people-want-these-stories-women-win-big-at-the-nebula-awards

May 13, 2016

Distinguished Capstone Awards 2016

Please join me in congratulating this year’s Distinguished Capstone Award Winners! MA English Eric Wilbanks (Jeff Mielke)Social and Structural Constraints on a Phonetically-Motivated Change in Progress: (str) Retraction in Raleigh, NC  Christine Barba (Nancy Penrose)Student perceptions of standardized assessment and the SAT  William Tolbert (Juliana Nfah-Abbenyi)Writing America’s Empire: John William DeForest and Colonialist Discourse during…

Apr 21, 2016

Research Examines ‘SHtriking’ Sound Change in Raleigh

NC State graduate student Eric Wilbanks studies how sounds change in speech. In one of his latest projects, the M.A. in linguistics candidate honed in on (str) retraction, or when /s/ is spoken more like /sh/ in (str) clusters (e.g., “SHtreet”).

Mar 31, 2016

Study Highlights Importance of Multimodal Communication in Higher Ed

Research from NC State finds that "multimodal" communication — using a mix of words, images and other resources — is important for students and faculty in higher education, a finding that argues for increased instruction in multimodal communication for undergraduates.