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Wrapping it Up: A reflection on my growth through CUPID

As the semester comes to a close, I am grateful that I have the opportunity to reflect on the experiences I’ve had with CUPID.   In previous semesters, I dedicated my time to organizations and roles that did not further my professional development.  I was not connected to the work I was doing and almost let possible prospects at advancing my … Continue Reading

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The Back Cover Fall 2012

The CUPID associates would like to present the Fall 2012 edition of The Back Cover.  The Back Cover is the newsletter for the Department of English at Elon University.  It is published at least twice a year and provides both English faculty and students with the departmental news. In this issue, we have features on SURE English students and projects, … Continue Reading

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Happy Thanksgiving! (Rhetoric Style)

At this time, the CUPID associates want to wish everyone a lovely Thanksgiving full of great food, family, football, and rhetoric.  Thanksgiving and rhetoric?  Yes, as proponents of collaboration, we thought we would give our readers a taste of rhetoric’s presence in Thanksgiving.  Here are some cool facts that show rhetoric’s role in one of our favorite cultural spheres-Thanksgiving! The … Continue Reading

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Internships: Turning the Bad to Good

We have all heard the internship stories- the good, the bad, the ugly.  As one of our experiential learning requirements, internships at Elon University are heavily pushed and with good reason.  Students gain real-world experience of their possible profession or interests, expand their network opportunities, and potentially gain school credit. But what happens when our internship expectations are incongruent with … Continue Reading

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Visual Rhetoric in Election 2012

As a culture we are constantly bombarded with images that represent brands, ideologies, political affiliations, etc.  It is, therefore, overwhelmingly obvious that connections to visual rhetoric dominate our image-laden world.  And as the word ‘rhetoric’ seems to be (unfortunately and wrongly) synonymous with politics these days, it only seems appropriate to take a peek at the visual rhetorics of The … Continue Reading

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Second Language Writing & PWR

Guest Blogger Professor Jessie Moore Earlier this month, I had the pleasure of attending and presenting at the 11th Symposium on Second Language Writing at Purdue University (my graduate school alma mater!) in West Lafayette, Indiana. So why is a PWR faculty member attending a second language writing conference? Second language writing was one of my earliest research areas, and … Continue Reading

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A Warm Welcome back from the New CUPID Associates

Hey, CUPID readers! We hope everyone’s semester is off to a fresh, exciting start. We want to take this time to update you on the CUPID happenings this semester. We would first like to introduce ourselves as the new CUPID Associates for the Fall 2012 Semester. We are juniors Emily Bishop, Maggie Achey, and Christine Meyer and English Professional Writing … Continue Reading

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