Events http://www.york.cuny.edu These are the search results for the query, showing results 1 to 8. Wanna Write Right Workshops http://www.york.cuny.edu/events/events/wanna-write-right-workshops How to Use Punctuation This workshop will focus on the correct way to use punctuation in order to avoid fragments, run-on sentences, comma splices, etc. in student writing.

]]> No publisher Jo-Ann Glenn Journalism Program Writing Program WAC English 2013-03-06T13:20:10Z Event The Art of Scientific Writing http://www.york.cuny.edu/events/the-art-of-scientific-writing Workshop facilitated by the York College WAC Writing Fellows. Sponsored by the Writing Across the Curriculum Program and the Center for Excellence in Teaching and Learning The facilitators will also offer strategies for teaching students to read andwrite both in the sciences and the humanities, initiating a discussion about how to transition between diverse/appropriate writing conventions and practice or apply general writing habits across a variety of situations.

a workshop by:

York College Writing Fellows

Nataliya Gavrilova

Arunaud Gerspacher

Nawshin Hoque

Jack Spear

Timothy Susse

Sponsored by the York College Writing Across the Curriculum Program and the Center for Excellence in Teaching and Learning

]]> No publisher Debra Swoboda CETL WAC Writing Center 2013-01-17T18:40:00Z Event English Department Fall Open House http://www.york.cuny.edu/events/english-department-fall-open-house This semester's theme is Literature and Social Justice Come and hear faculty and students read from a variety of genres. Meet English Department Faculty and learn about Spring 2009 English Department offerings.

English Department's Fall Open House

Join the English Department for a good time, and get a free book!

The program theme for 2008 is

Literature and Social Justice

 

No need to RSVP.

Just show up and enjoy the company.

Refreshments will be served.

]]> No publisher Miguel Bernard Writing Program WAC Current Student English 2008-11-07T23:05:00Z Event Proposing a Writing Intensive Course: A Workshop http://www.york.cuny.edu/events/proposing-a-writing-intensive-course-a-workshop A Writing Across the Curriculum workshop to help faculty in any discipline develop an existing course into a proposal for a Writing Intensive-designated offering. Proposals for Spring 2009 Writing Intensive-designated courses are due on October 15, 2008.

This workshop, held on October 7 and sponsored by the Writing Across the Curriculum Program, will help faculty members in any discipline explore  options for developing an existing course into a potential Writing Intensive course.

RSVP to wac@york.cuny.edu or x2278 by October 6.

Participants will consider ways to incorporating writing into the course objectives of a specific course in their own disciplines. The workshop will include discussion of low- and high-stakes writing, the drafting process, a scaffolding approach to writing assignments, and more.

 

]]> No publisher Michael Cripps Workshop WAC Writing Program Faculty/Staff 2008-09-25T22:38:01Z Event Draft My Paper Launch Party http://www.york.cuny.edu/events/draft-my-paper-launch-party The Writing Across the Curriculum Program invites all faculty and students in research-oriented courses to the launch of the York College film Draft My Paper. We will offer refreshments, and a gift bag to all attendees!

 

Join us for a pizza party to launch our new film.

Guests will receive a DVD, plus a resource with ideas to integrate
the film into any class.  

The stars will be out and available for autographs.

]]> No publisher Heather Robinson WAC Current Student Faculty/Staff English 2008-03-25T14:55:00Z Event Plagiarism: Deterring and Detecting - A Faculty Workshop http://www.york.cuny.edu/events/plagiarism-deterring-and-detecting-a-faculty Writing Across the Curriculum invites you to a Brown Bag Faculty Workshop to discuss deterring and detecting plagiarism. Share your experiences with other faculty members as we address the causes of plagiarism and what can be done to prevent it. Please RSVP by email to wac@york.cuny.edu. We look forward to seeing you there!

]]> No publisher Heather Robinson Workshop WAC Faculty/Staff 2007-11-13T16:39:19Z Event English Department Open House http://www.york.cuny.edu/events/english-department-open-house The theme of this year's English Department Open House is Blurring the Boundaries: Journalism and Literature. We invite students to come along and find about about the new Journalism program, and about majoring in English. No publisher Heather Robinson Admissions Prospective Student Writing Program WAC English 2007-11-06T18:19:19Z Event Grammar in Context http://www.york.cuny.edu/events/grammar-in-context An interactive discussion about how English 125 and Writing 300 can address students’ sentence-level issues, while attending to the conceptual work that they are doing in their papers.  Grammar In Context - A Workshop for Faculty

 

Facilitated by
Heather Robinson (Assistant Professor of English)

 

– Light Snacks Provided –

 In advance of this event, participants should read

Bartholomae, David. “The Study of Error.” College Composition and Communication (Oct 1980): 253-69.

Available in the English Department (2A16) or through Find E-Journals (JStor) on the York Library Website

 

RSVP by Tuesday, October 30, 2007

x2278 or wac@york.cuny.edu

 

 Sponsors include the Department of English, the College-Wide Writing Program, the Writing Across the Curriculum Program, and the Center for Excellence in Teaching and Learning.

 

Practical Pedagogies is a series of conversational workshops for faculty teaching writing, or including writing in their discipline-based courses.  Discussions often begin with a reading that connects the specific topic to relevant literature. 

]]> No publisher Michael Cripps Workshop WAC Writing Program 2007-10-24T16:42:23Z Event