Author Archives: Dr. Hazel Elif Guler

Ireland Seagle serves as a Digital Content/Social Media Manager and gets hired as a Writing Consultant

Congratulations to Ireland Seagle, an English major with a concentration in Professional Writing, for getting hired as a consultant at Longwood’s Writing Center! Ireland will begin her training next semester. In the fall of 2021, Ireland completed an internship with … Continue reading

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Senator Warner recognizes Amber Thomas for her academic achievements and professional work at Longwood

  Senator Mark Warner has recently recognized Amber Thomas, an English major with a concentration in Professional Writing and a member of Cormier Honors College, for her academic achievements and professional work at Longwood University. In the fall of 2021, … Continue reading

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Emily Robertson serves as a Feature Writer and gets elected to leadership positions at major student organizations

Congratulations to Emily Robertson, one of our new Professional Writing minors, on a successful semester serving as a Feature Writer and on being elected to serve as a leader at two major student organizations at Longwood! During the fall of … Continue reading

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Chris Crider gets promoted to Junior Copywriter at Mission Lane Visa®

Congratulations to Chris Crider, an alumnus of our English/Professional Writing Program at Longwood, for being promoted to a Junior Copywriter at Mission Lane Visa®! “I have been really enjoying [the position of Junior Copywriter] at this company. I have the … Continue reading

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After two years at PlayStation/Sony, Haley Vasquez accepts the position of Creative Director at Letterpress

Congratulations to Haley Vasquez, a star alumna of our English/Professional Writing Program at Longwood, for accepting the position of Creative Director at Letterpress Communications! Haley is returning to her home state, Virginia, after two years of working as a technical … Continue reading

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Professional Writing students receive multiple departmental awards of excellence

Longwood’s Professional Writing Program has finished Spring 2021 on a great note! Congratulations to our brilliant Professional Writing students on receiving multiple awards of excellence from the Department of English and Modern Languages this year! Payten Bovat: The Marion Camper … Continue reading

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Professional Writing Concentration/Minor Handout Updated

Check out the changes and NEW course offerings in the Professional Writing Program (starting with the 2020-2021 catalog year)! Here are the upcoming Professional Writing course offerings: SUMMER I – 2021ENGL 210 Introduction to Digital Writing – Online/2 sections – … Continue reading

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Amber Thomas receives Maria Bristow Starke Scholarship Award

Congratulations to Amber Thomas for recently receiving the Maria Bristow Starke Scholarship Award, nominated and awarded annually by Longwood’s English and Modern Languages Department to one student for excellent performance in English studies! Ms. Amber Thomas is a junior Longwood … Continue reading

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Final Reflective Blog Post

The final requirement for our course will be a final post on your blog, responding to the following reflective prompt. This posting will need to present a minimum of 750 words and make up for 10% of the overall course … Continue reading

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Post #8: Media-Centered Perspectives

Due by the usual class period on Wednesday, April 8th *Please respond to blogging prompts in a new posting on your own blog. Please enumerate and entitle all of your blog postings in line with the posting assignment number and title. For … Continue reading

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