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Spring issue of faculty newsletter published
Friday, 18 April 2008
Writing Matters, Spring 2008 issue

The Spring 2008 issue of the University Writing Center faculty newsletter is available in print and online.

This issue profiles the winner of the 2007 W Course Teaching Award. Writing Center consultants offer their perspectives on helping students with writing and suggest ways to help students get more from the Writng Center. Also in this issue: 200-level W courses, the proposed C (communication-focused) course, and a new WebCT course, The Write Place for Faculty, for W course instructors.

Printed copies of the newsletter are being distributed to all faculty via campus mail. The newsletter also is available in PDF form. Faculty who do not receive their copy may contact Margarette Goss at 458-1455 or uwc@tamu.edu.

 
New Videos Available: Guiding the Facebook Generation
Wednesday, 09 April 2008

New videos are available from our recent workshop, Guiding the Facebook Generation: A Focus on Undergraduate Research:

by Susan Goodwin, coordinator of instructional services for Texas A&M University Libraries

by Paul Taylor, president of The Daedalus Group

 
Technology Training Workshops for Faculty and Staff
Monday, 24 March 2008

Due to the significant and positive response to the recently-announced technology workshops, the Center for Employee Education has added sessions. The workshops are available for all employees and are free to faculty members, teaching assistants and staff who use technology in the development and/or instruction of Texas A&M academic courses. The following courses are offered in March, April and May:

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Video Now Available: Science Writing: Practice Makes It (Almost) Perfect
Thursday, 20 March 2008
 

A video of our recent Graduate Student Writing Series presentation, Science Writing: Practice Makes It (Almost) Perfect, is now available. Dr. Ginger Carney, Associate Professor of Biology, shares tips on writing about science.

 
2008 Graduate Studies Annual Multimedia Competition
Tuesday, 11 March 2008

The Office of Graduate Studies is calling for multimedia submissions portraying the best aspects of Texas A&M University.

To enter the competition you may create a video game, a short film, animation, original music, podcast, or anything else that is easily downloaded to showcase graduate studies or life as a graduate student at Texas A&M.

The competition is open to any currently enrolled, degree-seeking graduate students at Texas A&M. Work must be original and created by the submitting student(s).

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Writing vs.Speaking

American written English is no one's true language.

-- Peter Elbow

 
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