Re: pencils as advertisement

[Latisha LaRue <kfischer@keller.clarke.edu>]

Bobbie Silk created fantastic bookmarks when she joined me here at Clarke.
She's an artist in addition to all her other fine qualities.  We decided
that in addition to how terrific those were, though, that we'd get more
mileage out of them if we were really proactive about placing them all
over.  I think the best thing we hit upon was to ask the Bookstore manager
to stick the bookmarks into every text students bought at the beginning of
the term.  We had students wandering into the Writing Lab with a bookmark
in hand saying, "is this the place where you help with writing?"  We also
have them included in the folders first-year students receive upon
arriving and in Admissions.
Katie

On Thu, 5 Mar 1998, The Writing Center wrote:

> Lady,
> 
> We used to have bookmarks (and will get them again); this year we have both pens and pencils.  This past summer, one of the tutors printed a heap of small sticky labels with "The Writing Center" and our location and phone number.  So we've just been sticking these on anything that can possibly walk out of the WC.  And pens and pencils walk out of here all the time.  
> 
> This seems to work rather well though sometimes the sticky labels come unstuck and attach themselves to whatever is at hand (guess this isn't such a bad thing actually--kinda like burrs disseminating seeds).  In the future, I'd include our email and website addresses as well if space permits.
> 
> Cliff Barnett
> Portland State University Writing Center
> 
> >>> lady brown <YKFLB@ttacs.ttu.edu> - 3/5/98 7:26 AM >>>
> Hi, group.
> 
> I have a question.  Does anyone have pencils with your writing
> center's name on them?  If so, do you think this is an effective
> means of advertisement.  And if you do, what sort of information
> do you put on your pencils?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Lady Falls Brown
> ykflb@ttacs.ttu.edu
> University Writing Center
> Texas Tech University
> 
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