UPDATED - Writing Across the Curriculum:
Fall 2008 Schedule
Institute for Writing
Studies
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.)
Institute for Writing Studies conference room (Library 150)
Please RSVP to Dorothy Bukay at ext. 6910 or bukayd@stjohns.edu to assure
an accurate count for food.
Thursday, September 18 – 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 Ann Brown (SJC, English)
Carolyn Vigorito (SJC, Psychology)
Maura Flannery (CPS, Biology)
Kelly Rocca (SJC, Rhetoric, Communication, and Theatre) - 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.
Faculty to be announced.
- Lunch Provided
Thursday, November 13 – How to Argue with
Students and Win!
- Using Debate (and Writing From Debate) to Teach Argument
- With Stephen Llano, SJC Rhetoric, Communication, and Theatre,
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 24 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.
Please contact Dorothy Bukay at ext. 6910 or bukayd@stjohns.edu to say you
are interested and lunch dates will be set based on the schedule of
interested faculty.
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 e-mail Anne Ellen Geller, Director of Writing
Across the Curriculum, at ext. 6993 or gellera@stjohns.edu.