Calendar of Events

CSTW Program Activities and Calendar Dates

Writing Center/OSU Speech and Debate Team Spoken Word Event
When: 3:00 - 4:00 pm, Thursday, April 12
Where: Science and Engineering Library
Who: CSTW Writing Center, 614-688-4291, wcenter@osu.edu
Description: Student performances of written material. Done quarterly.

WAC Workshop: Carmen and Writing: Make your students' writing sing!
When: 11:30 AM-1:00 PM, Thursday, April 19th, 2007
Where: Science and Engineering Library
Who : Dr. Christopher Manion, WAC Coordinator, 614-292-9650, waccstw@osu.edu
Description: Learn to organize and manage writing assignments with Carmen. Find out how to effectively use Carmen to manage student peer groups, help students prepare portfolios, link multimedia projects, and engage in collaborative writing activities.

WAC Workshop: Copyright and the Classroom: Writing and Intellectual Property
When: 11:30 AM-1:00 PM, Thursday, April 26, 2007
Where: Science and Engineering Library
Who: Dr. Christopher Manion, WAC Coordinator, 614-292-9650, waccstw@osu.edu
Description: In this workshop, we will discuss basic copyright law as it applies to the work you and your students do for your classes: materials you prepare for Carmen or bring in from other resources as well as student writing and media projects. Then we will then show how copyright law can be used as an opportunity to help your students think carefully about the contexts that they write in and understand the wider implications of plagiarism.

WAC Workshop: Drawing to Learn: Visual Composition Across the Curriculum
When: 11:30 AM-1:00 PM, Tuesday, May 8, 2007
Where: Science and Engineering Library
Who: Dr. Christopher Manion, WAC Coordinator, 614-292-9650, waccstw@osu.edu
Description: Students can also learn by composing their own visual texts. In this workshop, we'll broaden our definition of writing to include the composition of visual texts as well as texts that combine both visual and textual elements. We will discuss how composing visual texts helps students learn and think critically about course content, what challenges students face when asked to visually compose. We will explore examples of visual composing assignments and some sample student projects that resulted from those assignments, and discuss some of the available technologies for visual composing, including freeware and open source software and public domain or creative commons image archives.

Graduate School Seminar on Publishing in Research Journals
When: 2:30 - 4:30 pm, Tuesday, May 15
Where: Mendenhall Lab 100
Who: Graduate School, Karen Mayer, mayer.113@osu.edu
Description: No matter what your research field, there are certain things you can do to gain favorable responses from editors and reviewers. Join Dr. Jay Kandampully, Professor of Consumer Sciences, as he guides graduate students and new researchers through the publishing process. Workshop topics include: important general considerations in developing manuscripts, how to start preparing research for publication, and what editors and reviewers look for in good research manuscripts. Dr. Kandampully serves on 12 editorial advisory boards for scholarly and business journals and is currently the editor of the international academic journal, "Managing Service Quality," one of the top scholarly publications in the Services Management discipline. All fields are welcome to attend this interactive workshop. Register at http://www.gradsch.osu.edu/eventregistration/

WAC Workshop: Ownership of Language: International Instructors Responding to Student Writing
When: 11:30 AM1:00 PM
Where: Science and Engineering Library
Who: Dr. Christopher Manion, WAC Coordinator, 614-292-9650, waccstw@osu.edu
Description: Teaching in a language that is not your native language can be challenging, especially if your class is a writing class or a class that has a significant writing component. Students with native English speaking knowledge may challenge the judgment of international instructors when it comes to providing feedback on their papers. In this session, we will talk about the challenges involved in teaching writing in your second (third, or fourth) language, and strategies to meet/overcome those challenges.

Ongoing Activities

Columbus Africentric Elementary After School Tutoring
When: 3:45 – 5:15 p.m., Every Wednesday, Autumn through Spring Quarter
Where: Africentric Elementary School
Who: CSTW Outreach, 614-292-9512, outreachcstw@osu.edu
Description: CSTW Outreach Consultants facilitate literacy-based tutoring sessions in which trained volunteers from OSU provide individualized instruction and assistance to third, fourth, and fifth graders. This program was funded by Martha Holden Jennings Foundation for 2006-2007.

Godman Guild/OSU-CSTW Adult Literacy Workshops
When: 11:45 a.m. – 2:15 p.m. and 4:45 – 7:15 p.m. Mondays, Autumn through Spring Quarter
Where: The Godman Guild Settlement House
Who: CSTW Outreach, 614-292-9512, outreachcstw@osu.edu
Description: Each quarter, outreach consultants conduct a total of ten workshops with adult literacy clients enrolled in the Godman Guild’s GED-ABLE program. Workshops include both reading and writing components and address topics such as the following: audience, purpose, and style; writing strong introductions; strategies for taking the timed GED exam; and evaluating and revising written work.

Linden McKinley High School Writing Center Support
When: Continuous Autumn Through Spring Quarter
Where: Linden McKinley High School
Who: CSTW Outreach, 614-292-9246, outreachcstw@osu.edu
Description: Trained CSTW Outreach consultants provide literacy support with establishment of Linden McKinley’s onsite Writing Center and train tutors to assist student population with their writing in several genres.

Requests for Individual Consultations and In-Class Workshops
When: Per appointment
Who: CSTW Writing Across the Curriculum (WAC) Consultants, 614-292-9650 waccstw@osu.edu
Description: WAC provides individual consultations and in-class workshops for university clients and also accepts request soutside the university. The consultations allow one-on-one discussions on specific concerns in any discipline. Topics range from evaluating student writing; providing constructive feedback; developing good prompts, syllabi and handouts; to grant-writing. Schedule all requests through the WAC office.

Writing Center Hours
When: 9:30 - 5:30 pm, Monday through Friday, during the quarter; finals week: M, T 9:30-5:18, W 10:30-5:18
Where: Mendenhall Laboratory
Who: CSTW Writing Center, 614-688-4291, wcenter@osu.edu
Description: Fifty-minute face-to-face tutorials by appointment and online tutorials by appointment.

Writing Center Services at Science and Engineering Library
When: 5:30-7:30 pm, Monday through Thursday during the quarter; CLOSED during finals week
Where: Science and Engineering Library
Who: CSTW Writing Center, 614-688-4291, wcenter@osu.edu
Description: Evening tutorials allow clients to walk in without appointments. Tutorials last about 20 minutes.