Student Success Stories

Seven University Writing Center consultants (Pedro Alfonso, Alyssa-Rae Hug, Noshee Mahmood, Josephine Marescot, Sandra Nelson, Cassandra Richardson-Coughlin, and Jonaki Singh) will be presenting at the Conference on College Composition and Communication 2013 (CCCC) in Las Vegas, Nevada, in March. [ Read more....]

Allysa-Rae Hug's proposal was accepted for "A Gateway to Professionalization: An Undergraduate Researcher Poster Session" at the Conference on College Composition and Communication 2012  (CCCC) in St. Louis, Missouri in March 2012.  Her research/poster -- "Two's Company, Three's a Conversation: A Study of Dialogue among a Professor, a Peer-Writing Fellow, and Undergraduates around Feedback and Writing" --focuses on her study of a collaborative commenting process.  This is the first undergraduate poster session to ever take place at this conference, and her acceptance is a significant achievement.  Congratulations!

Doctoral Fellow Nicole Papaioannou presented "‘But they would not teach her to play’: Augusta Webster’s Daffodil and the Croäxaxicans: A Romance of History and the Victorian Debate on Female Education" at the 2011 British Women Writers Conference: "Curiosities" at Ohio State University in April 2011.

Writing Center Tutors Angela Vallario and Mitchell Zink presented original Writing Center reseach, "An Analysis of the Viability of the Writing Center Method on a WAC-instituted Campus", during Student Research Week 2011 in April.

Doctoral Fellow Jody Ludlow and Carmen Kynard, Director, First-Year Writing presented "Unrelated Kin: Building Relationships With Critical Race Theory and Out-Loud Public Literacies in Rhetoric Composition Studies" at the 2011 CCCC (Conference on College Composition and Communication) Annual Convention themed "All Our Relations: Contested Space, Contested Knowledge" in Atlanta, Georgia in April 2011.

Writing Center tutors Que John Chen and Mohammad Saad Qasim presented "Creating Fertile Environments for Transplanted Writers" along with Anne Ellen Geller, Director, Writing Across the Curriculum, at the Northeast Writing Centers Association (NEWCA) 2011 Conference at Southern New Hampshire University in March 2011.  The theme of the conference was " The Writing Center as Community Garden".

Mohammad Saad Qasin received the Robert J. Connors Memorial Scholarship as a first-time presenter at NEWCA who is currently working in a writing center.

Also at NEWCA in March 2011:

"Branching Out: Digital Literacy and Writing Centers" was presented by Doctoral Fellows Tara Bradway, Tuli Chatterji, and Nicole Pappaioannou; and Writing Center tutors Jordan Dolan and Gabrielle Levin along with Harry Denny, Director, Writing Centers and Chris Leary, Assistant Director, Writing Center, Staten Island.

Doctoral Fellow, Lauren Williams, participated in the panel presentation "Bearing Fruit: Research Into Writing Fellows Programs."

Lauren Williams presented "Crossing the Great Divide: What We Can Learn About Critical and Disciplinary Thinking in the Majors from Writing Fellows" at the International Critical Thinking/Writing Across the Curriculum Confernce at Quinnipiac University in 2010 and "Creating a New Image: Re-Imagining the Undergraduate Writing Consultant as Writing Fellow" at the NEWCA Conference at Boston University in 2010.