|
Home > Weissman Center for Leadership > Speaking, Arguing, & Writing Program > SAW Student Scholarship > NEWCA Annual Conference 2007
The North East Writing Centers Association (NEWCA) Annual Conference
“Sustenance and Sustainability in the Writing Center”
The University of Connecticut, Storrs
March 31, 2007
“The Northeast Writing Center Association is a regional affiliate of the International Writing Center Association (IWCA). This annual conference is a full-day event providing writing center tutors, staff, faculty, administrators, and scholars with opportunities to interact with colleagues from other writing centers in the Northeast. This conference includes workshops, panel presentations, and presentations on writing center research, as well as a luncheon. During the conference, NEWCA members will also vote on issues relevant to the functioning and governance of the association.”
SAW Presenters
Michelle Deal, Acting SAW Coordinator
Kirsten Isgro, SAW Assistant Coordinator
Joan Tsang ‘08
Mimi Filipova ‘07
Mary Caden ‘07
Presentation Title
“Beyond Writing Centers: Classroom Mentoring and Public Speaking”
Presentation Abstract
As an example of how writing centers can sustain and regenerate themselves, this panel presentation addresses two unique facets of the Speaking, Arguing, and Writing (SAW) program at Mount Holyoke College: an oral communications component and a student mentoring aspect that places writing and/or speaking tutors in classrooms, as well as the SAW Center. Student staff will discuss the transition to classrooms, as well as to speaking. Faculty will provide guidelines for participants’ institutional reconfigurations.
|
