Re: Need Feedback:NWCA

["Dr. Patricia N. McLaughlin" <3yunsan@cmuvm.csv.cmich.edu>]

Joan,

I am very interested in volunteering to staff the booth.  Count me in.

Pat
CMU Writing Center
Central Michigan University


At 01:22 PM 1/8/97 -0600, you wrote:
>NWCA needs some community input so an informed decision can be made. Please
>e-mail your response to the following to the list or to me:
>
>Proposal: Next year, at NCTE, we would like to show the professional
>community what it is we DO in writing centers. Therefore, we would like to
>propose that we establish a working writing center at the conference. The
>Conference Writing Center would be located in a booth among the textbook
>vendors and would be staffed by two tutors (that's two of us folks): one
>would be a tutor, the other would be there to field questions about what we
>do (are doing) and to talk about writing center publications which would
>also be featured at the booth. The tutor would work with colleagues on
>anything they are writing or on conference proposals for next year's NCTE.
>
>Rationale: Every year NWCA is guaranteed a workshop or session at NCTE.
>These are not always well attended for many reasons--not the least of which
>is that those sessions do not always meet the needs of the high school AND
>college populations at the same time. Sessions proposed by individual
>writing center people seem to have better attendance because they are
>clearly high school or college focused, or because they are clearly tackling
>specific problems in an hour. Also, the writing center workshop competes
>with workshops on proficiency exams, multi cultural literature, and computer
>technology. Yet CLEARLY there are a lot of people at the conference that
>want to know about writing centers (in one session, 53 people signed up for
>more information about NWCA).
>
>We thought we would PILOT this Conference Writing Center this next year in
>Detroit. NCTE is excited about this and willing to promote it in their
>advertising materials. If it doesn't work, we'll go back to a session or
>workshop.
>
>Problem to be solved: We will need volunteers to staff the booth. Therefore,
>we would need firm commitments ahead of time (to the conference, of course!).
>
>RESPONSE????
>
>joan
>
>Dr. Joan Mullin
>Writing Center
>University of Toledo
>Toledo, Ohio 43606-3390
>419-530-4913
>419-530-4752 (fax)
>jmullin@uoft02.utoledo.edu
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