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Introduction to the Writing Center
Length: 10-15 minutes
Gives students an overview of the writing workshop support available for them.
Peer Response
Length: 50 minutes
Offers students an opportunity to think critically about how they may offer generative criticism to one another's work-in-progress. In this presentation, we also model strategies that students may use when working with one another or in small groups.
Publishing on the Web
Length: 50 minutes
This workshop covers fundamental issues related to creating and posting webpages, including how to create links, insert images, and format text. By the end of this presentation, students will have produced a basic webpage and will have posted it to their AFS space.
Communicating Effectively with PowerPoint
Length: 50-70 minutes About the Communicating Effectively Series
Our Communicating Effectively series of workshops focus on helping students exploit the potentials and confront the challenges of new media. Each of these presentations asks students to explore the relationship between media, technologies, and the communication process.
These workshops are structured to raise questions like: What constitutes effective writing in this medium? What constitutes effective design? What options do available technologies and resources enable? What limitations do they impose? What implications do the affordances and constraints associated with a particular medium have for reaching a particular audience or achieving a particular purpose? How can compositions achieve a synergy of words, images, and sounds to communicate their messages effectively?
Students reflect on the nature of rhetorical contexts using a heuristic called MAPS. The basic design principles of Contrast, Repetition, Alignment, and Proximity are introduced.
Communicating Effectively with Webpages
Same as 'Communicating Effectively with PowerPoint'
Communicating Effectively with Poster Displays
Same as 'Communicating Effectively with PowerPoint'
Communicating Effectively with Digital Video
Same as 'Communicating Effectively with PowerPoint'
Communicating Effectively with Designed Print Documents
Same as 'Communicating Effectively with PowerPoint'
Researching on the Internet
Length: 50-70 minutes
This workshop helps students critically assess sources that they find on the Internet. Students assess a set of examples that range from personal websites to peer-reviewed journals. Based on these examples, we collectively develop a rich set of criteria for identifying appropriate sources. When time allows, we explore strategies for finding the kind of sources that meet the assessment criteria that we've generated.
Collaborating in Digital Environments
Length: 100 minutes
Students participate in a simulation aimed at capturing some of the key issues faced by collaborators who are separated in time and space. Students are placed into working groups and confront the challenges and possibilities of digital collaboration, including planning effectively, assigning tasks, and using digital tools such as email, online discussion, chat, and document reviewing and commenting tools.
Critically Assessing Visual Rhetoric
Length: 50-60 minutes
This workshop helps students become more critical consumers and producers of visual rhetoric and visual media by inviting them to manipulate select images in Photoshop and assessing the rhetorical implications after each manipulation. This workshop demonstrates the way photographs and other visual media can be used for rhetorical purposes, both good and bad.
Custom Presentation
Length: Variable
When possible, the Writing Center will develop a presentation to meet the special needs of instructors, especially those instructors who wish to integrate new technologies into their classrooms. Past custom presentations have included résumé help, writing memos, and much more. Special presentations require advanced notice. Custom presentations can also be created to combine elements of two or more standard Writing Center presentations.
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