CWRU's Common Reading selection for 2024-25 is Daisy Hernández's The Kissing Bug: A True Story of a Family, an Insect, and a Nation's Neglect of a Deadly Disease. The Writing Program offers the following resources for using this text in First Seminars and other writing courses.
Hernández, Elaine G. Hadden Distinguished Visiting Author, will speak at our Fall Convocation (Monday, September 19, at 4:00 p.m.). Ticket information will be available on the university's website.
Fall Convocation is the formal opening of the academic year; it is an event that offers an opportunity to reflect on the history, symbols, and traditions of the university. Instructors might decide to attend the event together as a class, or you might ask students to reflect on their experience and their expectations for college. We have found that a brief, written reflection can help faculty plan activities and assignments to support their student writers, and reflection is an important academic success skill for students.
Our Resources for Faculty page offers some general advice about working with student writers, and the Writing Resource Center consultants are ready to work with faculty, staff, and students on their writing projects this year.
Kelvin Smith Library has collected references and resources on the text.