- Newsworthy: English Center Now Tutoring Business and Technical Writing Students
- PETL Teaching Enhancement Activity - Thursday, January 29
- Undergraduate Writing Awards Submissions Due Friday, January 30
- Nominations for Undergraduate Achievement Awards Due Friday, January 30
- Nominations and Submissions Deadline for Graduate Student Awards - Friday, January 30 - 4:40 pm
- Great Flicks - Wednesday, February 4 - 7:30 pm - 1203 Haley Center
- Call for Papers Sponsored by The Association of College English Teachers of Alabama - Deadline - Monday, February 16
English
Center Now Tutoring Business and Technical Writing Students
Until
this semester, English Center clients have mostly been students
enrolled in composition and Great Books courses. However,
the English Center is now extending its tutoring services to students
enrolled in English
3080: Business Writing and English 3040:Technical Writing.
The 10 consultants trained to work with the Business and Technical Writing students include MTPC and MA candidates and undergraduates. These consultants have received training in visual and verbal document design and are prepared to help students
| • | create and format resumes |
| • | insert visuals |
| • | use screen captures |
| • | write instructions |
| • | highlight verbal text |
| • | incorporate headings and subheadings |
Consultants are currently available to visit
classrooms to discuss English Center services,
and English Center
bookmarks are available in 9022 Haley Center. For more information—or
if you would like to schedule a classroom visit by an English Center
consultant—call 844-5749 or email
Isabelle Thompson,
Coordinator of the English Center. View
the English Center website.
PETL Teaching Enhancement Activity - Thursday, January 29
The Promotion of Excellence in Teaching and Learning (PETL)
Committee announces the first of its teaching enhancement activities
for Spring 2004. CLA PETL "New Faculty" Mid-Year Orientation—Campus
Resources for Developing Your Teaching Skills—will meet on Thursday,
January 29 in 202 Thach Hall from 3:30-5:00 pm. The coordinator of
the meeting will be Dr. Steve Brown, Political Science.
During the meeting, new faculty (tenure-track faculty in their first 3 years of teaching at Auburn) will be introduced to the teaching and learning resources available on campus to help them develop their teaching skills and interests. All attendees will receive a free copy of McKeachie's classic Teach Tips book. Refreshments will be provided.
If you have any questions or comments, please email Bill Buskist.
Undergraduate Writing Awards Submissions Due Friday, January
30
English Department faculty should encourage their undergraduate
students to submit their poetry, creative fiction, creative non-fiction
prose, technical communication, and/or academic essays to this year's
Writing Awards competition. Students
may submit
only
one entry per category, but they may enter in more than one category.
No student can win in more than one category in any year, and no student
may win
in the same category in consecutive years.
The Writing Awards competition is open to all currently enrolled undergraduate students at Auburn University. Submissions are due Friday, January 30.
To submit an entry, students must fill out the online entry form and then submit a copy of each entry to the box marked "Undergraduate Writing Awards" in 9030 Haley Center. Entries should be identified by title only - not the student's name. In addition, each page of the entry should list the title of the work and be numbered. The faculty reserves the right to forgo an award in any category with insufficient competitive entries.
Nominations for Undergraduate Achievement
Awards Due Friday, January 30
Faculty should nominate deserving students for Achievement Awards
in the form of a letter of recommendation addressed to the Coordinator
of Undergraduate Studies. Explain how you know the student and the nature
and distinctiveness of the student's academic achievement.
Please email Timothy Dykstal for more information.
Nominations and Submissions Deadline
for Graduate Student Awards - Friday, January 30 - 4:40 pm
Each spring semester, the English Department presents awards to its graduate
students. If you have an eligible conference presentation or publication, please
submit it to Craig Bertolet. If you have any questions, please see Craig Bertolet
or Jeremy Downes.
Great Flicks - Wednesday, February 4 - 7:30 pm - 1203 Haley
Center
Sense and Sensibility (Lee, 1995)
The director of The Hulk and Crouching Tiger,
Hidden Dragon turns
his attention to another story of powerfully repressed emotion.
Emma Thompson not only leads the talented cast in this adaptation
of the
Jane Austen novel, but she also wrote the screenplay.
View the Great Flicks Spring Schedule.
Call for Papers Sponsored by The Association
of College English Teachers of Alabama - Deadline - Monday, February
16
The Association of College English Teachers of Alabama annually
sponsors best paper awards to be presented at their annual meeting at
Auburn University
Montgomery.
The Calvert paper may be on any scholarly or theoretical topic related to English studies, and the Woodall paper may be on any pedagogical topic related to English studies. A prize of $150 will be awarded to the college English teacher or graduate student in English submitting the best paper in either category. The McMillan Award will go to an undergraduate writer.
Papers may not have been published previously. Your name, title of the essay, and institutional affiliation should appear on a cover sheet and not on the essay.
Please send entries to:
Susie Paul
Department of English and Philosophy
Auburn University Montgomery
P.O. Box 2440423
Montgomery, AL 36124-4023
To include an item in The English Channel, submit text items by Tuesday at 11:40 am for publication Wednesday. Submit items by email to Kelly Messerschmidt or Betsy Smith or put the information in their mailbox. Please check your submission for accuracy and completion--all calendar items and meeting announcements must include the date, time, and location of the event.
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Last updated January 28, 2004