Hello Everyone, As the weeks progress into the semester and your professors begin assigning greater amounts of homework, it’s easy to overlook the services open to you in regard to assisting you in completing these assignments and papers. Naturally, the Learning Commons and Writing Center, where I am a Writing Tutor, are widely advertised for students to find helpful guidance with their academic inquiries. As a tutor I encourage you all to take advantage of this great service if you need (or even if you feel you don’t). However, with specific concern to your writing and papers, some of you may find it inappropriate to bring in a creative writing piece into the Writing Center (though I assure those of you thinking in such manner that I and all of us writing tutors would be ecstatic for some creative work to tutor). If that is the case, have no fear, I would like to alert you to another option. Currently I am the Co-Vice President of the Sigma Tau Delta English Honor Society and along with my fellow officers, we hold bi-weekly to monthly Creative Writing Workshops. Not only do these workshops offer an environment more conducive to the creative intent, but they are also done peer to peer without the presence of an overseeing professor. In this manner we can hopefully make you feel more comfortable with sharing your work as well as suggest possible revisions more directly than other services. The first such workshop we are holding this semester is this Friday, February 7th in Thomas Hall, Room 201 (English Dept. Main Office) from 1:00-3:00. Again, this is a perfect opportunity to come and share and have your creative work heard and peer reviewed outside the realm of an actual class peer-to-peer session or tutoring service. What’s more, in two weeks, February 14th, the Continuing Scholarship deadline occurs. For anyone familiar with the English and Writing scholarships, you must submit a collection of several creative works as part of the application. These creative works CANNOT be pieces familiar to any English faculty member as they are the selection committee. Therefore, the creative workshop this Friday would be a great opportunity for those of you in need to have your creative pieces reviewed prior to submission in two weeks. These workshops are open to anyone with creative work, English majors or not, and we would be more than happy to help you in regards to the Continuing Scholarship work. Lastly, another project I am co-heading this semester is the selection, editing, and publication of the University’s literature journal, The Carillon. This publication is open to ANYONE who has a creative piece (poetry, short fiction, creative nonfiction, screenplay, etc.), academic paper (essay, literary criticism, etc.), or artwork they would like to see published. The submission guidelines are scattered about Thomas Hall (and should be more prominently elsewhere this week). Individuals interested are allowed up to FIVE pieces of literature (poetry, essays, fiction, etc.) as well as FOUR pieces of artwork (photographs or photos of artwork). Submissions can be from almost any class current or previous and the deadline is currently set for February 10th. You can contact me for further information. Please, if you have any interest at all, don’t be shy!
Posted on: Mon, 03 Feb 2014 18:35:47 +0000
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