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Julie Mengert

Julie Mengert, Senior Instructor and Director of the University Writing Program

Julie Mengert, Senior Instructor and Director of the University Writing Program
Julie Mengert, Senior Instructor and Director of the University Writing Program

Department of English 
217 Shanks Hall 
181 Turner Street NW 
Blacksburg, VA 24061
jmengert@vt.edu

Julie Mengert is a senior instructor in the Department of English and director of the University Writing Program

  • Composition
  • Writing and Rhetoric
  • Technical Communication
  • Professional Activities
  • Coordinator of GTA Education
  • Senior Instructor
  • Composition Committee
  • MA in English, Virginia Tech
  • BS in Psychology, Virginia Tech
  • Certificate of Teaching Excellence, February 2011, College of Liberal Arts and Human Science
  • XCaliber Award Co-Recipient, March 2011
Books 
  • “Chapter Five:  Grammar and Style.”  Writing at Virginia Tech:  Written, Spoken, and Visual Communication.  New York:  Bedford Publishing, 2016.
  • Copy Editor, Department of English. Writing at Virginia Tech:  Written, Spoken, and Visual Communication.  Boston:  Pearson Custom Publishing, 2014.

Journal Articles

  • “Professionalizing Graduate Teaching Assistants: How Advisors Support Successful Writing Instruction,” April 2016 CCCC, Houston, Texas
  • “The Working Relationship Between Graduate Teaching Assistants and Their Advisors:  How to Professionalize GTAs’ Pedagogical Tactics,” July 2014 CWPA Conference, Normal, Illinois   
  • “Using Visual Rhetoric to Encourage Higher Levels of Student Knowledge,” April 2008 CCCC, New Orleans, Louisiana 

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