Creating Independent Student Writing Groups

The LIU Writing Center & Writing Across the Curriculum Program will present a workshop next week (Tuesday November 10, 11-12:30, Pratt 120) on creating independent student writing groups. Harriet Malinowitz will be leading the workshop, but more significantly, five of her ex-students (from English 14) will be giving a presentation demonstrating how a student writing group works (and answering questions). Prof Malinowitz would like to encourage all tutors to attend if possible, and especially encourage those who signed up saying they'd like to be trained to facilitate student writing groups.

National Day on Writing 2009

A special thank you goes out to all of you who supported and participated in LIU's very first National Day on Writing on October 20. Among many other events--including poster displays, two readings, a writing career panel, etc.--the ARC hosted a postcard table, the Writing Scavenger Hunt, and the wildly popular Post-it Wall. The campus community even created our own online gallery of writing, Voices at a Crossroads. It was so exciting to be part of this cross-campus initiative. It gave us a chance to show off the diversity of writing happening across our campus. I know next year will be even bigger.

Thanks again for participating. Check out some of our pics.

Seymour's Baby Shower

Hi gang,

Yesterday we had a rousing good time at Seymour's surprise baby shower, wonderfully organized by Nikki and Michelle N. We had an absolute blast: Good company, good food, and good music. Pictures can be found here, but wait - there's more! There's also the wonderfully rendered video:

Friends, Romans, Tutors & Staff...lend me your eyes

Hi my lovely ARC-ers,
Happy new year and new semester! Well, the semester is off and running. You may have noticed we waited a little longer to register your students. We've discovered that we get fewer schedule changes that way. Hopefully this will make your first sessions run a bit more smoothly. Special thanks to Seymour & Michelle and the rest of our front desk staff for the huge task of organizing, registering and calling all of those students - and we have a lot of them this semester.

A few things for you:

• Everyone: We will have our first Common Time meeting next Wednesday, February 4th, from 3-4pm. Please join us. You'll notice that we've blocked off this time on your schedules. As usual, if we are not meeting, you can use that time to take walk-in students. We'll try to meet at least twice a month.
• Everyone: If you haven't given us your schedule yet, please do this immediately. I'm going to be addressing how many new tutors to add to our family. I don't want you to lose hours because we give them to someone else. For those of you who are still out of town/country, please give us your schedules as soon as you return.
• Tutors: I'll be looking for new undergraduate tutors. Please recommend any promising undergrads who you think would be a great addition to our family. You know best what the demands of the position are.
• International Students: Please submit your F-1 letters immediately. We cannot schedule you without them.
• Grad students who are still interested in GA-ships: please send me an email confirmation. Please notify me soon if you receive GA's in any other departments. Remember, the University doesn't allow you to be on more than 2 contracts or budgets. Unfortunately, we only have a few to go around.
• Alumni: We love you, but we need to replace you. I know, there's no replacing you, really, but if you can give me recommendations, I always appreciate those. When offering up recommendations, please consider how well these applicants will fit in to our ARC family.

Happy tutoring! And have a great semester!

Courtney

winds of change

Hello my ARC lovelies,
Please join us next Tuesday, January 20th in the ARC. We'll be watching the live telecast of the inauguration of our new President, Barak Obama. There will be treats and door prizes and friendly faces. What better way to start off the spring 2009 semester?!

We'll start the telecast at about 11am, and the inauguration commences at 12. Drop in anytime throughout the afternoon.

If you'd like to bring treats (like mint, chocolate brownies...hint, hint), as always, the more the merrier.
Hope to see you there,
Courtney