Don’t you hate when you’re sitting in front of computer, about to start your essay or research paper and all you see is a blank screen? Then, you realize that not only is the screen blank, but so is your mind. Perhaps it's not that your mind has gone blank at all, but rather that you're more far more concerned with having perfect grammar. How can we avoid it or where can we go to for help? Compocon would be the answer! Well, what is Compocon? Compocon is the perfect place

Expectations I walk into the room expecting to see an auditorium full of people listening to a speaker present on the mistakes college students are making when they are doing a research paper, and to top it off going through a PowerPoint on how our writing is not up for the professional world. However, I entered a normal looking classroom, where I could see myself taking a class, barely full of students, but at times there were some students sitting on the floor, and the most

Compocon is a composition conference for English 1302 students to have an opportunity to have an informal conversation with professionals and experts from the university.This year, Compocon-The SPARK took place at the University of Texas-Pan American Ballroom on February 18th and 19th.The purpose of Compocon was to help students Develop the Big Question.The Big question is basically just what their question will be like for their research. In order to get help from a professi

When we were assigned to attend the first week of COMPOCON I was a bit hesitant about it because I had never attended a writing convention before or even knew what it was going to be about. I didn't know how helpful it would be. I just thought the COMPOCON sessions were going to be covering what I already knew. Although COMPOCON was more like a small convention of information for English students. The first COMPOCON event of 2015 was an all week event in which you went and ex

By Krystina Ortiz and Antonio Salinas Attending Compocon opened our eyes to the intricate processes that occur at each step of the writing process. We hope to give you a taste of what we experienced and we hope that this will help students in their writing endeavors of First Year Composition. Compocon is a series of sessions that sets out to teach first year composition students their different options they can use in helping with their writing and aims to give students a b

Writing students were busy collaborating to generate ideas this week! Check out this week’s writers at work!

We're looking for photo submissions of your weekly experiences and work in ENG 1301 and ENG 1302! Here's you chance to contribute to a collective of experiences and knowledge and explore what other's are doing around you! We'll be producing a weekly post every friday that chronoicals the work that students in the writing program at utpa have done during the week. submissions of board work, mapping, students at work are all possibilities! To submit for Friday's weekly post