About the Creators

Katie Long (she/her) is a doctoral student in the Rhetoric and Writing Program at Virginia Tech. She is a graduate teaching assistant in the Undergraduate Writing Program and has taught both ENGL 1105 and 1106. Her research interests include writing pedagogies, writing program administration, and graduate-level pedagogy.

Abigail L. Robinson (she/her) is a doctoral student in the Rhetoric and Writing Program at Virginia Tech. She is a graduate teaching assistant in the Undergraduate Writing Program and has taught both ENGL1105 and 1106. Her research interests include writing pedagogies, multimodal composing, and visual/material rhetorics.

Additional Contributors

If you wish to contribute your own ENGL1105 materials to this archive, please let us know! Feel free to reach out to us at alrobinson@vt.edu and/or kaitlynl@vt.edu with any questions or inquiries.

Project Background

This archive was originally conceived and created in the Spring 2025 course ENGL5074: Digital Humanities, spurred by conversations with the Undergraduate Writing Program administrators and instructors regarding course design for ENGL1105. Our goal was to create and share a working collection of pedagogical resources (syllabi, assignment sheets, activities, calendars, etc.) that could be taken and adapted according to instructor and student needs. Ideally, we hope this archive can be a community resource for all instructors in the Undergraduate Writing Program, where ideas, course policies, activities, and more can be shared and inspired.

Project Framework

Our archive is guided by a desire to provide accessible materials and web design according to the principles of Universal Design for Learning. The materials in the archive have been reviewed through the Ally accessibility tracker available to all Virginia Tech instructors on Canvas. Each item in the collection is available as both a PDF and a DOCX file so that they might be engaged with and adapted according to instructor specifications. The archive itself is designed to support fluid engagement with the materials within.

While we strive to create an accessible resource for all instructors, we recognize that we might have missed something. If you run across any part of this archive that needs work, please let us know.

Thanks

We are incredibly grateful for Dr. Tyechia Thompson in helping this archive reach its potential. Our Digital Humanities readings and activities as well as our personal correspondence throughout this process has been instrumental to the invention, creation, and implementation of the archive.

Additionally, we are thankful for our fellow ENGL5074 peers. Our engaging conversations and your helpful suggestions helped ground our creation process and account for a variety of perspectives and voices.

Lastly, we wish to thank Dr. Julie Mengert for her support on this project. This archive would not exist without our initial conversations and her willingness to share our work with the UWP community.