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FALL 2009 free EVENTS
WORKSHOPS
BRAINSTORM 101
Presenter: Rebecca Rotert
Wednesday, September 9
10:-00-11:00 a.m.
SOC, Con 222
Thursday, September 10
10:00-11:00 a.m.
FOC #10, 209
Friday, September 11
10:00-11:00 a.m.
EVC 123
WRITING ABOUT A PROCESS
Presenter: Eve Hermanson
Thursday, September 10
11:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m.
EVC 123
Friday, September 11
12:30-1:30 p.m.
FOC #10, 209
Friday, September 11
2:00-3:00 p.m.
SOC, Con 222
AVOIDING CLICHES: THE NEMESIS OF GOOD WRITING
Presenter: Sara Lihz Dobel
Monday, September 14
4:00-5:00 p.m.
FOC #10, 209
Tuesday, September 15
10:00-11:00 a.m.
EVC 123
Tuesday, September 15
11:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m.
SOC, Con 222
POETRY WRITING WORKSHOP
Presenter: Suzanne Barrett
Monday, September 14
11:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m.
SOC, Con 222
Monday, September 14
1:00-2:00 p.m.
EVC 123
Friday, September 18
10:00-11:00 a.m.
FOC #10, 124
SUMMARIZING WHAT YOU’VE READ
Presenter: Susan Ely
Monday, September 14
3:00-4:00 p.m.
EVC 123
Tuesday, September 15
3:00-4:00 p.m.
FOC #10, 124
Wednesday, September 16
4:00-5:00 p.m.
SOC, Con 222
USING FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE IN YOUR WRITING
Presenter: Brett Mertins
Wednesday, September 16
1:00-2:00 p.m.
EVC 321
Thursday, September 17
4:00-5:00 p.m.
SOC, Con 222
Friday, September 18
9:00-10:00 a.m.
FOC #10, 108
WRITING RESUMES AND GETTING THE INTERVIEW
Presenter: Erin Joy
Thursday, September 17
12:00-1:00 p.m.
EVC 123
Thursday, September 17
2:00-3:00 p.m.
FOC #10, 124
Thursday, September 17
3:30-4:30 p.m.
SOC, Con 222
SCHOLARSHIP ESSAY WRITING WORKSHOP
Presenter: Katie Stahlnecker
Tuesday, September 29
5:00-6:00 p.m.
EVC 123
Thursday, October 1
12:00-1:00 p.m.
FOC #10, 209
Friday, October 2
11:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m.
SOC, Con 222
MLA UPDATE 2009: AN OVERVIEW OF MLA CHANGES
Presenter: Sara Lihz Dobel
Monday, October 5
4:00-5:00 p.m.
FOC #10, 209
Tuesday, October 6
10:00-11:00 a.m.
EVC 123
Tuesday, October 6
11:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m.
SOC, Con 222
GET NOTICED! HOW TO WRITE A COVER LETTER THAT ATTRACTS THE RIGHT KIND OF
ATTENTION
Presenter: Shelley Donnelly
Wednesday, October 7
5:00-6:00 p.m.
EVC 123
Saturday, October 10
9:30-10:30 a.m.
FOC, TBA
Saturday, October 10
11:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m.
SOC, Con 222
PICTURE THIS: DESCRIPTIVE
WRITING
Presenter: Thomas Christopher
Wednesday, October 14
6:00-7:00 p.m.
FOC #10, 209
Thursday, October 15
12:00-1:00 p.m.
SOC, Con 222
Thursday, October 15
2:00-3:00 p.m.
EVC 123
REVISION 101
Presenter: Rebecca Rotert
Wednesday, October 21
10:00-11:00 a.m.
SOC, Con 222
Thursday, October 22
10:00-11:00 a.m.
FOC #10, 209
Friday, October 23
10:00-11:00 a.m.
EVC 123
LANGUAGE UNIVERSALS AND THEIR APPLICATION TO ENGLISH
Presenter: Lorraine Duggin
Friday, October 16
12:00 1:00 p.m.
FOC #10, 122
Friday, October 16
2:00-3:00 p.m.
SOC, Con 222
Friday, October 16
4:00-5:00 p.m.
EVC 123
TEACHER TALK SESSIONS
With this series, we invite Metro faculty members
from across the disciplines to join us for open-ended, collegial
conversations about various aspects of teaching writing.
TOPIC—HOW CAN WE PROMOTE CRITICAL THINKING IN STUDENT WRITING?
Facilitator: Katie Stahlnecker
Tuesday, September 29
4:00-5:00 p.m.
EVC 123
Thursday, October 1
1:00-2:00 p.m.
FOC #10, 209
Friday, October 2
12:00-1:00 p.m.
SOC, Con 222
TOPIC—ASSIGNING THE END-OF-THE-QUARTER REFLECTION: GETTING STUDENTS TO
EFFECTIVELY THINK ABOUT THEIR LEARNING
Facilitator: Susan Ely
Friday, October 30
12:30-1:30 p.m.
SOC, Con 222
Friday, November 4
12:30-1:30 p.m.
EVC 123
Friday, November 13
2:30 a.m.-3:30 p.m.
FOC #10, 122
Writing Center Reading Series
Anything You Ever Wanted to Know About Writing and Publishing!
Please
join us for an evening of conversation with a panel of some of Nebraska’s
premier writers. They will
discuss all aspects of writing and publishing and take questions from the
audience.
Wednesday, September 16, 7:00-8:00 p.m.
SOC, Connector Building Commons
FEATURED
PANELISTS
Timothy Schaffert
Timothy Schaffert is the author of
three novels; his work has been a Barnes and Noble Discover Great New
Writers selection, a Book Sense pick by the American Booksellers
Association, and a New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice. He is the
director of two literary nonprofits: the (downtown) Omaha Lit Fest, and
UNL's Nebraska Summer Writers Conference.
James Reed
Stories by James Reed recently have appeared in
The Gettysburg Review, Dogwood,
and Quick Fiction as well as the
anthology Tribute to Orpheus
(Kearney Street Books 2007). A
four-time finalist for the Flannery O’Connor Award for Short Fiction, he was
awarded the Charles B. Wood Award for Distinguished Writing from
Carolina Quarterly, an Individual
Artist Fellowship Master Award in Literature from the Nebraska Arts Council,
and a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship.
Mary
Helen Stefaniak
Mary Helen Stefaniak writes fiction, essays, and radio commentaries. Her
novel, The Turk
and My Mother (W. W. Norton & Co.), won the 2005 John Gardner
Fiction Award and has been published in several languages.
Self Storage and Other Stories
(New Rivers Press) received the Wisconsin Library Association Banta Award.
She teaches at Creighton University.
John Price
John T. Price is the author of the memoirs
Man Killed by Pheasant and Other Kinships
and Not Just Any Land: A Personal and Literary Journey into the
American Grasslands. A
recipient of a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts and other
recognitions, his nonfiction writing about nature, family, and spirit has
appeared in many publications including Orion, The Christian
Science Monitor, Creative Nonfiction, Isotope, and Best
Spiritual Writing 2000.
Questions? Call Katie Stahlnecker 738-4529 or Email at
kstahlnecker@mccneb.edu
*Note:
Part-time faculty who participate in these workshops and teacher talk
sessions are eligible for professional development compensation for their
attendance. We will provide the
reimbursement forms.
Full-time faculty may represent their participation in this workshop in the
"Professional Development" section of the "Faculty Professional
Portfolio."**
