Writing Across the Curriculum Lunches on the
Queens Campus
Facilitated by Anne Ellen Geller, Director of Writing Across the
Curriculum, Institute for Writing Studies, and co-facilitators, as
noted below. All Queens Campus lunches are during Common Hour
(12:15 p.m. to 1:20 p.m.)
Thursday, September 11 – How Can I Use Writing to Help
Students Read?
From Teaching Students How to Annotate
and Take Notes to Using Translations and One Minute Papers and
More
Brown Bag Lunch – drinks and dessert
will be provided
Thursday, September 25 – I Don’t Know What I Should Say
to This Paper!
How to Respond to Weak Writers, Strong
Writers, and Everyone In Between
With Harry Denny, Director of the
Writing Centers, Queens & Staten Island
Brown Bag Lunch – drinks and dessert
will be provided
Tuesday, October 7 – Rome 2008: Lessons, Experiences,
and New Ideas from Faculty Colleagues
Hear strategies and techniques that
cross disciplines from
Lee Anne Brown (SJC, English)
Carolyn Vigorito (SJC, Psychology)
Maura Flannery (CPS, Biology)
Kelly Rocca (SJC, Speech, Communication Sciences, and Theater)
Lunch Provided
Tuesday, October 21 – Writing for Learning
How to Help Students Explore Ideas and
Course Content
With Maura Flannery, Director, Center
for Teaching and Learning
Brown Bag Lunch – drinks and dessert
will be provided
Thursday, October 30 – Rome 2008: Lessons, Experiences,
and New Ideas from Faculty Colleagues
Hear Strategies and Techniques That
Cross Disciplines.
With
Andrea Bergman (SJC, Psychology)
Lara Vapnek (SJC, History)
Carolyn Vigorito (SJC, Psychology)
Lunch Provided
Thursday, November 13 – How to Argue with Students and
Win!
Using Debate (and Writing From Debate)
to Teach Argument
With Stephen Llano, CPS Speech,
Communication Sciences, and Theater, and Director of the St. John’s
Debate Society
Lunch Provided
Please RSVP to Dorothy Bukay at ext. 6910 or bukayd@stjohns.edu
to assure an accurate count for food.
Staten Island Campus Writing Across the
Curriculum Project
Mark your calendar now for:
Friday, October 17 at 2 p.m.
DaSilva Second Floor Lobby
More Information Forthcoming /
Refreshments Provided
Queens and Staten Island Writing Across the Curriculum Reading
Groups
Interested in reading about Writing
Across the Curriculum with a small group of your faculty
colleagues? Join a Writing Across the Curriculum Reading Group on
the Queens or Staten Island campus.
In Queens the group will meet for
three lunches at the Faculty Club (paid for by the Institute for
Writing Studies). In Staten Island the group will meet three times
in the DaSilva Second Floor Lobby and lunch will be provided.
Facilitated by Anne Ellen Geller, Director of Writing Across the
Curriculum.
One-on-One Consultations with the
Director of Writing Across the Curriculum
Have questions about your students’ writing? Your assignments?
The comments you write to students? Want to try something with
writing in your classes but don’t know how? Call or email Anne
Ellen Geller, Director of Writing Across the Curriculum, at ext.
6993 or gellera@stjohns.edu.