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For its commitment to youth-driven service and youth development, Trinity College has received a $10,000 College Service Grant from The Allstate Foundation in collaboration with the Center for Expanding Leadership & Opportunity (CELO).
Professor James Truman, Director of Peer Tutoring in Writing, trained and supervised five Writing Associates to offer weekly, one-on-one tutoring at Hartford Correctional Center during the Spring 2024 semester.
Bicentennial Essay by Irene Papoulis, principal lecturer in the Allan K. Smith Center for Writing and Rhetoric, and director of Academic Advising and Faculty Development in Trinity’s Center for Academic and Experiential Advising.
“It was one of the most level-headed and curative conversations I’ve heard about artificial intelligence since the dawn of ChatGPT and the current era of AI that we’re in.”
Visiting Assistant Professor in the Allan K. Smith Center for Writing and Rhetoric Alexander Helberg advocates for an educational atmosphere that integrates more research on online media through students’ engagement with what they define as a digital world.
“Students analyze online rhetorical situations and then demonstrate this knowledge through the creation of a BuzzFeed article.”
“As the semester closes, Helberg’s students are working to make the audio recordings available in an archive for HHH to use in other digital communications.”
The Essays Only You Can Write is a textbook offering strategies for writing academic and personal essays. It also gives you advice about some of the psychological factors that can get in the way of doing your best writing. Read it if you want to write essays that grow out of your own particular thoughts and experiences!
