Re: new thread: student activities link to WC?

[jwerchan@osulima2.lima.ohio-state.edu (James E. Werchan)]

 .........similar project in conjunction with our WAC 
>program.  I was going to ask faculty to submit their own writing and writing 
>from students in their classes they feel is excellent and reflect the writing 
>conventions of the particular disciplin. 
>Janeen Myers
..........
hi janeen,
thanks.  good idea (although a tad risky in instances where, if truth were
known, faculty are themselves less-than-wonderful at writing).

I'm thinking along lines of a prudent-but-productive degree of liaison with
student activities, the folks who schedule on-campus movies and concerts and
festivals and wierd contests, the kinds of things that make students' less
humdrum.    I'm thinking of a poetry-slam kind of event, maybe with
impromptu teams of student writers cranking out bad poems or parodies of
good poems , which are subsequently recited, cold, by willing faculty who
are comfortable at  acting goofy.  all for the olympic-like judging of a
panel of student judges.     
we have a may-week campus festival coming up, and we want to do something
for that.    but i'm actually fearful that the festival itself might fade
for lack of interest.   so long-term liaison with student life people seems
important for student-initiative stuff like peer writing consultation of the WC.

later,
james



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