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Writing Across the Curriculum
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Weekly Creative Writing Hours Students, faculty, and staff interested in creative writing can meet to share their work and get some feedback from other writers.
The Common Book* Club Party: Discussion Groups on Prince of Thieves by Chuck Hogan Join us for food, merriment, and WACky ideas as we discuss this year's common book and consider ways to incorporate this book in class discussions. Open to faculty, staff, students, and administrators!
Getting Effective PowerPoints from Your Students This faculty session is co-sponsored by the Computer & Engineering Technologies Division. Do your students create PowerPoints (PPTs) in your courses? Or do you want students to create effective PPTs in your courses? What are your expectations for student PPTs in your discipline? What have you found effective? What have been your frustrations? Should there be some common standards (and rubrics perhaps) for MCC students? Come join this discussion with faculty from a variety of disciplines who assign PowerPoints in their courses. The ESL Writer in Your Classroom This faculty session will address instructors' questions and concerns, exploring ways to respond to ESL student writers across the disciplines. Jointly sponsored by WAC & the ESL department. (Signing up on the MCC / LENS Professional Development Calendar Webpage ahead of time would be helpful for our planning, but you can also just show up that day.) A Poetry Reading and Celebration of Words This poetry & creative writing reading is open to the entire MCC community. If you’re interested in doing a reading, please contact Tom Laughlin, ext.3839. (Call for Readers flier) ( For a Current List of Readers ) Wednesday, November 8th at 12:00 – 1:00 Coffee Time with author Jenna Blum,author of Those Who Save Us, will speak in this first series event of the Fall semester. Part of the Coffee Time series. Thursday, November 9th, 10:30 a.m. Bedford Campus, Campus Center, 1st Floor Student Lounge
Faculty Workshop on Plagiarism: Your Student Plagiarized! What do you do? What can you do? This faculty workshop will explore student plagiarism issues, including discussions of our pedagogical responses to plagiarism, our current detection options, and our new and easier option of using Turn It In within Blackboard. (Turn It In is an online plagiarism prevention service for which MCC pays. There are now a number of new features in the new edition that allow Turn It In to work seamlessly with Blackboard.com.) (Read an article on the rise in college plagiarism from Educause Review. And/or listen to this brief 4 minute NPR commentary, Plagiarism in College, from an adjunct professor in Jointly sponsored by WAC & the Library. Chuck Hogan, author of Prince of Thieves Prince of Thieves, MCC's Common Book for 2006/2007, was awarded the Dashiel Hammett Prize (the best crime-fiction novel of the year) for 2004, has received much praise from critics and other authors, and was recently optioned for film production by Law & Order producer Dick Wolf. Stephen King said, “Prince of Thieves is a terrific read. Chuck Hogan has woven a rich narrative of friendship, young love and mounting suspense. On each season's fiction list, if you are lucky, there are one or two books that live up to the advance hype. Prince of Thieves is such a book.” (For more information on the Common Book.) (For a copy of the event flier) Jointly sponsored by WAC and the One World Series. Federal Building, 1st Floor, Assembly Room
Noodlebib Drop-In Sessions Bibliography? Works Cited? MLA Style? Is there an easier way? Yes! Noodelbib: The Easy On-Line Bibliography Tool Students! Come get help using Noodlebib to create your works cited pages during either of these helpful drop-in sessions. Drop in during these hours with any or all of your materials, source information, and questions regarding your works cited pages! Library, Alcott Room Jointly sponsored by WAC & the Library. The prompt that students are asked to respond to is the following: One of the themes in the MCC Common Book, Prince of Thieves, is that of an individual's effort to make significant life changes. The philosopher Kierkegaard once said that "with every change there is fostered a hope of finding a way out." And yet, it seems often so difficult for people to make significant changes. What is your view, based on your observations, experiences, or readings? Explain. See the WAC Student Writing Contest page, for further details. Submission Deadline: December 8th, 2006. Creative Writing Activities at MCC For additional Creative Writing Activities at MCC, go to the following: http://www.middlesex.mass.edu/english/CrWrtgActivities.htm
As part of WAC activities, each year, a Common Book is recommended for the whole college, selected for literary quality and relevance to many subject areas. Faculty can choose to assign the book to be read independently or teach appropriate elements within a given discipline. For further information about WAC and our activities, please contact Tom Laughlin at ext. 3839 or laughlint@middlesex.mass.edu
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