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News & EventsClick here to access our News and Events archiveApril, 2008--More Workshops for Spring!The Writing Center is continuing its series of workshops in April to help students who are working on, or have questions about, researching and writing research papers. Dates for these workshops are below:
All of these workshops are being held in Robinson Hall, A114. March, 2008--Spring Workshops are Coming!The Writing Center is hosting a series of workshops in March to help students who are working on, or have questions about, researching and writing research papers. Dates for these workshops are below:
Also coming in March will be a pair of workshops for students working on writing personal statements. The announcement follows: Are you applying to graduate school in the fall? It's never too early to learn about what a personal statement involves. The following workshops will help you to plan ahead for writing essays for graduate school. 1) WRITING PERSONAL ESSAYS FOR GRADUATE SCHOOL APPLICATIONS Tuesday, March 18: 5:30-6:20, SUB II room 6 Kristin Von Kundra, GMU's Personal Statement Specialist, will discuss how to prepare a personal statement for graduate school or professional school. This workshop will include:
2) GUIDED WRITING WORKSHOP FOR PERSONAL STATEMENTS Tuesday, March 18: 6:30-7:20, SUB II room 6 Workshop participants will follow guided writing exercises that will generate material for their first draft of a personal statement. Participants should bring a pen and plenty of paper. Kristin Von Kundra works at the University Writing Center specifically to tutor personal statements, both for graduate school and nationally competitive scholarships. These workshops are sponsored by the University Writing Center. For more information, please contact Kristin at kvonkund@gmu.edu. September, 2007--GMU's WAC Program Makes US News and World Report Top 15
This distinction puts us in the company of Duke, Harvard, Princeton, and University of Chicago, among others on the list. We are one of only five public institutions* in the rankings. Amherst College (MA) We appreciate the good work of all the faculty across the university who support students in their efforts to write well in their disciplines. September, 2007--The Writing Center's Fall for the Book EventsDuring Fall for the Book this September, the University Writing Center will be hosting a Meditation and Writing Workshop with Don Gallehr (see the flyer). There is usually a crowd for this workshop, so advanced registration is encouraged. Also, during Fall for the Book, Writing Center tutors will be on hand at the "Poetry on Demand" booth, Thursday, September 27th from 11:30am to 2:30pm. Tutors will offer their services as poets, writing poems based on requests from students, faculty, and on-lookers that drop by the booth. August 30, 2007--Zotero to be Bundled with Mozilla Firefox's Campus EditionHere's the news as we heard about it at the Writing Center, from CHE's Wired Campus Blog: August 28, 2007 This is great news and great promotion for a research tool developed
right here at George Mason. We encourage students to try out Zotero for
use in their own research projects—it can help keep writers organized and help
make bibliography writing a far less intimidating process.
February, 2007--The Center for History and New Media at George Mason University has developed ZoteroThe Center for History and New Media at George Mason University has developed Zotero. Zotero is a free, easy-to-use, open source research tool that helps you gather and organize resources (whether bibliography or the full text of articles), and then lets you annotate, organize, and share the results of your research. It includes the best parts of older reference manager software (like EndNote)-the ability to store full reference information in author, title, and publication fields and to export that as formatted references-and the best parts of modern software such as del.icio.us or iTunes, like the ability to sort, tag, and search in advanced ways. Using its unique ability to sense when you are viewing a book, article, or other resource on the web, Zotero will-on many major research sites-find and automatically save the full reference information for you in the correct fields. Probably the best introduction to Zotero is the three-minute demonstration at http://www.zotero.org/documentation/screencasts/intro. But there is a lot more information at our website http://www.zotero.org, where you can also download Zotero, which quickly installs in the Firefox browser. Zotero is the culmination of two years of work at the Center for History and New Media. Developed with funding from the United States Institute of Museum and Library Services, the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, and the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Zotero is rapidly gaining ground as the premier research management tool. Currently about 40,000 people a week are using Zotero for their research and we are confident that you will find it useful as well. Faculty: if you are interested in using Zotero for your own research or are interested in using Zotero for your students please feel free to contact Trevor@Zotero.org for more information. February 2007--The George Mason Review is seeking submissions for its 2006-2007 issueThe George Mason Review is seeking submissions for its 2006-2007 issue. This issue of the Review will be a departure from previous issues, which have been recreational and under-utilized. The vision for the new George Mason Review is of a journal that is more fully integrated in campus life, a journal that is assigned to students in their courses and used by them as a dependable, viable resource. To this end, we are seeking submissions from across the disciplines. The journal will consist of four sections:
The Review will help students to understand how their discipline fits with others, and will give them clear advice on how to best proceed in a variety of classes. But building a great jounal starts with great submissions. We need essays, creative work, and cover art. There is no limit on length or topic, or on the semester in which the work was done, but there is a deadline. We'll need all submissions to arrive by March 10. The best entry in each category will be awarded a prize of $100. Submissions should be sent to gmreview@gmu.edu. Thanks! December 15, 2006--WRITING CENTER SEES RECORD NUMBER OF STUDENTSThe Mason Writing Center saw a record 977 clients during the Fall 2006 semester. These clients attended a total of 2543 individual sessions. Additionally, the center's on-site workshops were attended by 48 students. December, 2006--ALEX ANTRAM FINALIST FOR MARSHALL SCHOLARSHIPPeer tutor and writing fellow Alex Antram was selected as a Marshall Scholarship finalist for the D.C. region. Alex is an Anthropology and Religious Studies Major who has recieved campus endorsements for both the Rhodes and Marshall scholarships. Congratulations Alex! September 26, 2006--TUTORS & WRITING CENTER ADMINISTRATORS PRESENT AT NATIONAL CONFERENCEAnna Habib, Assistant Director of the Writing Center, Eiman Hajabbasi, ESL Specialist, and Alex Antram, Writing Fellow with the Anthropology Department, have been accepted to present a panel at the Conference on College Composition and Communication in March 2007. They will be discussing their research into non-native students' experience with writing for the American Academy. September 26, 2006--OUR ON-SITE WORKSHOPS BEGIN IN OCTOBEROur on-site workshops begin in mid-October. To register, call the writing center at 703.993.1200. If you forget to register, feel free to drop in the day of the workshop: "How to Evaluate, Document, and Cite Your Sources" "Summarizing, Quoting, and Paraphrasing" "Making Your Research Paper Flow" "How to Write a Personal Statement for Scholarship or Graduate School Applications" August 29, 2006--ANNA HABIB APPOINTED ASSISTANT DIRECTOR TO WRITING CENTERAnna Habib was recently appointed to the position of Assistant Director of the Mason Writing Center. Anna is a graduate of the university, recieving her MFA in Creative Writing, Non-Fiction. Anna's duties will include overseeing the day to day operation of the center and will report directly to Director Terry Zawacki. |
For the sixth year in a row, George Mason’s WAC program has been honored among the top fifteen Writing in the Disciplines programs in the country by the