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First-year college students do most of their writing via text messaging and social networks, but it’s not always a type of writing they say they most value, according to new research co-authored by a team of ¸£ÀûÑÇÖÞ¹ú²ú¾«Æ· professors. That leads to the next questions in what promises to be an ongoing project: why do they value what they value, and how can academia catch up with their use of writing technologies?

“Text as the Basis for Text-less Music: 11th Century Poetry Meets a 21st Century Composer,” a symposium sponsored by ¸£ÀûÑÇÖÞ¹ú²ú¾«Æ·'s Department of Music with contributions from the Department of English, takes place Sept. 13-15 to address the way in which instrumental music evokes, interprets and represents poetic texts, and the process by which composers craft “abstract” sounds from written sources.

Associate professor of English Drew Perry’s debut novel “This is Just Exactly Like You” has been named one of seven finalists for the 2010 Flaherty-Dunnan First Novel Prize.

Jessie L. Moore, associate professor of professional writing & rhetoric in the Department of English, has been elected to the Conference on College Composition and Communication Executive Committee. CCCC is the world's largest professional organization for writing studies.

Janet Myers, Coordinator of National and International Fellowships, participated in a regional conference sponsored by the National Association of Fellowship Advisors.

Crystal Anderson will serve as Elon’s first faculty fellow for the Multicultural Center beginning with the 2010-2011 academic year.

Crystal Anderson presented her paper, “Chinese School: Cross-Cultural and Transnational Strategies in "Ping Pong Playa (2007)” at the 2010 Association of Asian American Studies conference, held in Austin, Texas

Megan Isaac presented a paper delineating the growing role of both literal and metaphorical surveillance in young adult literature at the annual meeting of The Children's Literature Association in Ann Arbor, Michigan on June 10.

Prudence Layne, an assistant professor of English and coordinator of African/African-American Studies at ¸£ÀûÑÇÖÞ¹ú²ú¾«Æ·, has been named one of four Visiting Fellows this summer at the Bader International Studies Institute at Herstmonceux Castle in Sussex, England, to teach a postcolonial Shakespeare class with field studies components.