Melody Wise
Dr. Melody A. Wise
Assessment Director
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Harry B. Heflin Administration Building

Curriculum Vitae

Dr. Wise joined the Glenville State College faculty in 2011. Before then, she was the Dean of Arts and Humanities at the University of Arkansas Community College at Hope while she continued her doctoral studies at Indiana University of Pennsylvania. She has held teaching certificates in Arkansas and North Carolina and has taught secondary education in both states. Dr. Wise serves as the English Education Content Specialist and as the Institutional Assessment Coordinator at Glenville State College; she is also the Director of the GSC Writing Center.  Courses taught include Critical Reading & Writing I, Critical Reading & Writing II: Research Writing, Advanced Grammar and Writing, The English Language (Introduction to Linguistics), and English Education Methods.

About

Recent Presentations

National Presentations

“College English Work in the Midst of a Storm.” College English Association Conference:  Vision/ReVision, 28–30 Mar. 2019, New Orleans, LA.

“New Bridges: Establishing Infrastructures for International Communities.” College English Association Conference: Bridges. 5–7 Apr. 2018, St. Petersburg, FL.

“Using COIL to Raise Awareness: Improving and Enhancing Interaction between Rural and Urban Students across Borders.” Global Learning Conference: Transcending Boundaries through COIL, 31 Oct. 2017, Chicago, IL.

“Austerity Always: Small, Rural, and Perennially Poor.” Council of Writing Program Administrators Annual Conference: Solving Problems Together: Agency and Advocacy in an Age of Austerity, 21 July 2017, Knoxville, TN.

“Project-Based, Multimodal Approaches to Improving Literacy in Secondary and College Classrooms.” Conference on College Composition and Communication: Writing Strategies for Action, 6 April 2016, Houston, TX.

“Crossing the Funding Desert: Creating Sustainable Writing Programs in a Budget Slashing World.” Council of Writing Program Administrators Annual Conference: Sustainable Writing / Program / Administrators, 17 July 2015, Boise, ID.

(Chair). “Cultural Politics of Space: From Swamps to Sprawl.” Conference on College Composition and Communication: Risk and Reward, 19 Mar. 2015, Tampa, FL.

“The Grass Roots Writers’ Center: How Does Our Garden Grow?” International Writing Center Association/National Council of Peer Tutors of Writing: The Wonderful World of Writing Centers, 30 Oct. 2014, Orlando, FL.

“Whose Work Is It, Anyway?  WPA Roles in a Changing Workplace.” Council of Writing Program Administrators Convention: The WPA as Worker, 19 Jul. 2014, Normal, IL.

(Co-Chair). “Writing Transitions and Rhetorical Partnerships across Elementary, Secondary, and Post-Secondary Levels.” Sixty-Fourth Annual Convention, Conference on College Composition and Communication (CCCC): The Public Work of Composition, 13. Mar. 2013, Las Vegas, NV.

“Writing Transitions and Rhetorical Partnerships across Elementary, Secondary, and Post-Secondary Levels.” Sixty-Third Annual Convention, Conference on College Composition and Communication (CCCC): Writing Gateways, 20 Mar. 2012, St. Louis, MO.

“Rhetoric of Silence: Women Finding a Voice through College Composition.” Fifty-Eighth Annual Convention, Conference on College Composition and Communication (CCCC): Representing Identities, 23 Mar. 2007, New York, NY.

Regional Presentations

“Exploring the Power of Space through Digital Writing.” West Virginia Council of Teachers of English Conference: The Power of Place, 21 Apr. 2018, Morgantown, WV.

“The Day Literacy Came to Math Class: Cross-Curricular Adventures in Math.” West Virginia Council of Teachers of Mathematics Annual Conference: Reflecting on Math, 18 Mar. 2017, Roanoke, WV.

“Cross-Curricular Literacy Strategies for Middle School Using West Virginia Materials.” 61st Annual Conference, West Virginia Reading Association: Invest in Reading, 17 Nov. 2016, White Sulphur Springs, WV.

“Designing Performance-Based Assessments for Middle-School ELA, Science, and Social Studies CSOs.” 60th Annual Conference, West Virginia Reading Association: Reading Connects A.L.L., 19 Nov. 2015, White Sulphur Springs, WV.

“Designing Performance-Based Assessments for Middle-School ELA, Science, and Social Studies CSOs.” 2015 Annual Conference, West Virginia Science Teachers Association: An Environment of Change, 6 Nov. 2015, Flatwoods, WV.

“TEACHnology--Adding Media Arts to Empower Student Reading and Writing.” 59th Annual Conference, West Virginia Reading Association: Reading with the Arts Off the Charts, 21 Nov. 2014, White Sulphur Springs, WV.

“Creating the Teacher-friendly PBL with Media Arts.” 59th Annual Conference, West Virginia Reading Association: Reading with the Arts Off the Charts, 20 Nov. 2014, White Sulphur Springs, WV.

“Building a Center-less Writing Tutor Program for a Four-Year College.” 58th Annual Conference, SUNY Council on Writing: Building a Culture of Writing for Tomorrow, 1 Apr. 2013, Buffalo, NY.

“West Virginia Authors and Next Gen Reading.” Annual Conference, West Virginia Reading Association: Rediscover West Virginia Through Reading, 21 Nov. 2013, White Sulphur Springs, WV.

“Creating Sustainable Writing Assessment Practices: Using Assessment to Create Sustainable Programs” (with Michele Ninacs and Marjorie Stewart). Annual Conference, SUNY Council on Writing: Sustainability & Writing, 31 Mar. 2012, New York, NY.

 “Journal Writing: Making Meaning in the Two-Year College Classroom.” Eighteenth Annual Conference, Arkansas Association of Two-Year Colleges (AATYC): Celebrating the Impact of Two-Year Colleges, 17 Oct. 2006, Hot Springs, AR.

Campus Presentations

“Resume and Cover Letter Writing.” GSC Student Support Services Workshop, 10 Apr. 2019, Glenville, WV.

“Alignment: Outcomes to Objectives and Beyond.” GSC Assessment Workshop, 8 Aug. 2018, Glenville, WV.

“Assessment: General Education” GSC Workshop for Dual-Credit Adjuncts, 1 Aug. 2018, Glenville, WV.

“Closing the Loop.” GSC Assessment Workshop, 22 Mar. 2018, Glenville, WV.

 “Best Practices for Keeping Students Learning and Administrators Happy.” GSC Faculty Workshop, 12 Apr. 2017, Glenville, WV.

“Assessment.” GSC Faculty Workshop, 20 Apr. 2016, Glenville, WV.

 “Benefits of a Liberal Arts Education.” “Careers in Creative and Technical Writing.” UACCH Student Orientations and other student programs, 2007—2008, Batesville, AR.

“Careers in Technical Writing and Creative Writing.” UACCB Career Day, 6 Oct. 2006, Batesville, AR.

“The Town Design: A Critical Thinking Activity.” UACCB In-service Professional Development, Jan. 2006, Batesville, AR.

“Careers in Technical Writing and Creative Writing.” UACCB Career Day, 7 Oct. 2005, Batesville, AR.

“The World Civilization and World Literature Learning Community: How it Works.” UACCB In-service Professional Development, Jan. 2005, Batesville, AR.

“Careers in Technical Writing and Creative Writing.” UACCB Career Day, 8 Oct. 2004, Batesville, AR.

Grants

“Digital Writing Across the Curriculum: Grades 9 – 12.” Improving Teacher Quality, Glenville State College, 26–30 June 2017, Glenville, WV.

“K-2 Literacy: Reading, Thinking, Writing.” Improving Teacher Quality, Glenville State College, 19–23 June 2017, Glenville, WV.

“Building Literacy and Content Knowledge in Grades 6- 8.” Improving Teacher Quality, Glenville State College, 1–5 Aug. 2016, Glenville, WV.

“West Virginia Literacies.” Glenville State College Faculty Development Award, 2015.

“Cross-Curricular Collaborations for Literacy in grades 6, 7, and 8.” Improving Teacher Quality, Glenville State College, 27–30 Jul. 2015, Glenville, WV.

“Reading + Thinking + Writing: Grades 10-12.” Improving Teacher Quality, Glenville State College, 21–25 Jul. 2014, Glenville, WV. 

“Reading + Thinking + Writing: Grade 9.” Improving Teacher Quality, Glenville State College, 22–26 Jul. 2013, Glenville, WV.