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From Common Reading to a Common Experience Fostering a Campus-wide Conversation Twister Marquiss, MFA Common Reading Program Director Nancy Wilson, Ph.D. Director of Lower-Division Studies in English Edward Santos Garza Graduate Student,

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From Common Reading to a Common Experience

Fostering a Campus-wide Conversation

Twister Marquiss, MFA Common Reading Program Director Nancy Wilson, Ph.D. Director of Lower-Division Studies in English Edward Santos Garza Graduate Student, Rhetoric and Composition

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Quick Facts Texas State University

Location San Marcos, Texas Mascot Bobcats Fall 2015 Enrollment (Total) 38,006 (4th in Texas) Fall 2015 Freshman Class 5,727 (+7% over 2014) Fall 2015 Enrollment in US 1100 5,214


 Gender 57% Female | 43% Male Ethnicity 49% Minorities 33% Hispanic (HSI) 10% African American

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COMMON EXPERIENCE

at Texas State University

Affjliated Programs

» Common Reading Program » University Seminar (US 1100) » First-Year English (ENG 1310 and 1320) » Annual Majors Fair » LBJ Distinguished Lecture Series » Philosophy Dialogue Series » Diversity Film Series » Business Leadership Week » Mass Communcation Week

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COMMON READING PROGRAM

READ | DISCUSS | ENGAGE

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2015-2016 Theme and Book

Common Experience Tieme

Bridged through Stories

Shared Heritage of the United States 
 and Mexico, an Homage to Dr. Tomás Rivera

COMMON READING BOOK

...y no se lo tragó la tierra
 ...And the Earth Did Not Devour Him

by Tomás Rivera

New Edition. Houston: Arte Público Press, 2015
 145 pp. Total | 71 pp. in Spanish | 71 pp. in English

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COMMON EXPERIENCE

Summer and Fall Programs for 2015

» Common Reading Program distributed ~ 6,500 books » University Seminar enrolled 5,214 students » First-Year English used Common Reading Book together with diagnostic essay prompt » LBJ Distinguished Lecture Series featuring fjlm director Robert Rodriguez » 20th Anniversary Celebration

  • f Tomás Rivera Children’s Book Award

» 50th Anniversary Commemoration

  • f LBJ’s Signing of the Higher Education Act

» 98 Common Experience events in Fall 2015

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COMMON READING

— beyond the freshman seminar — English 1310
 College Writing I

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English 1310

“I didn't use the novel in any formal way, but it came up once or twice in discussions about language / identity / bilingualism, and a few of them compared an essay in Reading Culture to

  • it. I think it's handy to be able to refer to a text

that they all have in common (they had all read it, I suppose because they had been told to).” —Dorothy Lawrenson

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Previous Common Reading Books used in English 1310 and 1320 Courses

2015-2016 2014-2015 2006-2007 2005-2006 2004-2005

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English 1310 Student Responses 1

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English 1310 Student Responses 2

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English 1310 Student Responses 3.1

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English 1310 Student Responses 3.2

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Read the Book* Discussed Theme Attended an Event 0.225 0.45 0.675 0.9

85.98% 73.63% 84.97%

Percent of Student Respondents

Common Reading, Fall 2015

US 1100 End-of-Course Evaluation Results

* no data available regarding 


number of students who 
 fjnished the book

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T wister Marquiss, M.F .A.

Common Reading Program Director
 twister@txstate.edu | 512.245.3579

Nancy Wilson, Ph.D.

Director of Lower Division Studies in English
 nancywilson@txstate.edu | 512.245.5273

Edward Santos Garza

Graduate Student in Rhetoric and Composition esg25@txstate.edu | 512.245.2163

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