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

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Julie Mengert, Senior Instructor and Associate 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 Associate 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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