Writing Community

On February 1^st, the beginning of Black History Month, Oklahoma State University celebrated Nancy Randolph Davis Day. Nancy Randolph Davis was the first African American student to enroll at OSU (formerly Oklahoma A&M) college in 1949. Before graduating with a Master of Science from Oklahoma State University in 1952, she earned a bachelor’s degree in home economics from Langston University, Oklahoma’s only historically black university.

Welcome back from break, all! The Oklahoma State First-Year Writing Department has an exciting new opportunity for students enrolled in English 1213 courses—a new OER textbook! Open Educational Resources (OER) is an amazing initiative that offers students their course textbooks for free, and also shares with students materials, articles, and authors that they might not have encountered in commercial textbooks.

This week, we had the pleasure of sitting down and talking with Dr. Stephanie Jones! Dr. Jones is our Associate Director of Composition, and teaches within the Composition and Rhetoric Department here at OkState. Make sure you check out her bio on our site!

Welcome to the Writing Community page for First-Year Composition at Oklahoma State University! This space will soon be home to conversations, events, and celebrations of members of the FYC program.