UW-Superior Writing Center News and Events

Writing Center Reopens for the Spring Semester on Tuesday, January 24

Tue, 03 Jan 2012 21:34:00 +0000

The University of Wisconsin-Superior Writing Center reopens for the spring semester on Tuesday, January 24.

Located in Swenson 1030, the Writing Center offers in-person and online peer consultations to student writers. The Center serves UW-Superior students from any class in any discipline at any level. Campus and distance-learning students alike can avail themselves of the Center's services.

During the academic year, the Center is open from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Mondays, Tuesdays, and Thursdays; from 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. Wednesdays, and from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Fridays. Both in-person and online consultations are available during all these hours.

In addition to its hours in the Swenson Hall location, the Center sponsors two other services: a drop-in consultation service from 7 to 9 p.m. on Thursdays in CMO Residence Hall, and an online-only consultation service from 6 to 11 p.m. Sundays.

Visit the Writing Center website at www.uwsuper.edu/writingcenter to learn more or to make an appointment.

Women's and Gender Studies Essay Contest Reception

Wed, 23 Nov 2011 19:18:59 +0000

Writing Center Holiday Open House celebrates new location, 45th anniversary

Wed, 16 Nov 2011 15:26:09 +0000

Novel writing mini-marathon

Tue, 01 Nov 2011 16:43:01 +0000

Taking the "Grr" out of Grammar: WAC Brown Bag, noon, Oct. 31

Thu, 27 Oct 2011 23:59:43 +0000

Monday is Halloween. What better topic for a WAC brown bag held on that day than the one that often strikes fear into the hearts of students and instructors alike: grammar! All UW-Superior faculty, teaching staff, and others interested in the topic are invited to a discussion of some painless and useful approaches to responding (or not responding!) to grammar errors in student writing, approaches that promise to banish the ghosts and goblins, The session takes place at noon in Swenson 2005.

Writing Center Consultations in CMO on Thursdays, 7-9 pm

Thu, 27 Oct 2011 17:42:35 +0000

The UW-Superior Writing Center is now offering drop-in writing consultations in CMO Residence Hall from 7-9 pm each Thursday. Students can drop in during these hours to see a peer consultant for help with writing projects for any course (or with writing done outside of class--resumes, scholarship applications, and the like)!

Open Mic Reading at the UW-Superior "Beatnik Cafe" for the National Day on Writing

Wed, 12 Oct 2011 18:24:08 +0000

Enter the Liberal Arts Essay Scholarship Competition

Tue, 27 Sep 2011 14:32:44 +0000

Announcing the Seventh Annual Liberal Arts Essay Scholarship Competition

The University of Wisconsin-Superior Provost's Office, Writing across the Curriculum Program, Writing across the Curriculum Advisory Group, and the UW-Superior Foundation are pleased to announce this year's undergraduate essay competition. Eligible students are invited to submit essays to the competition.

Awards to Students: Up to three students may be selected as finalists in our local campus competition. The first-place finalist will receive a scholarship of $500 from the UWS Foundation. All campus finalists will be recognized at the Campus Celebration of Undergraduate Research and Creative Activity. Finalists' essays will also be entered into a pool of essays to be judged at the UW-System level. Each UW System winner (two winners from UW comprehensive and doctoral institutions, and one winner from the UW Colleges) will receive a $2000 scholarship.

NEW THIS YEAR! Recognition of Faculty-Staff Sponsors: Faculty and staff who have sponsored students chosen as finalists will be recognized at the Campus Celebration of Undergraduate Research and Creative Activity.

NEW THIS YEAR! Eligibility: The competition is open to any UW-Superior undergraduate student in academic good standing.

Application: Submit an original essay on the topic given below (1,000-1,250 words in length, typed using Microsoft Word, double-spaced, 12-point font). A title page must be included with the following information: title of essay, student's name, major, institution, college and home address, e-mail address, telephone number, name of faculty or staff sponsor (if any), and the following statement: "I hereby affirm that this is an original essay and my own work."

Essay Topic:Liberal education is often thought of as something that happens within the classroom. How, though, have other experiences you have had on your campus helped you understand and appreciate a liberal education?

You may choose from a wide range of extra- and co-curricular experiences, such as student organizations, study abroad, service learning, undergraduate research, lectures, recitals, exhibits, plays, or films. Feel free to choose a single experience or an array of experiences, whichever best fits the development of your own liberal education. Your essay should create a clear picture of the experience(s) and should also make a clear connection between your experience(s) and your liberal education.

As you plan your essay, you may wish to check on the liberal education learning outcomes at http://www.aacu.org/leap/vision.cfm . Some of these outcomes could help inform your understanding of the larger framework of liberal education.

Submission: Submissions must be made electronically by campus email to Dr. Deborah Schlacks, Coordinator of Writing across the Curriculum, at dschlack@uwsuper.edu; all essays must be attached as Microsoft Word documents.

Judging: Essays submitted by UW-Superior students will be evaluated by a committee of faculty and staff from the UW-Superior Writing across the Curriculum Advisory Group. The campus scholarship will be awarded only if a submitted essay is of sufficient quality to be sent on as a campus finalist in the UW System-wide competition. Final selection of winning essays at the System level will be determined by a group of judges from the UW System Advisory Group on the Liberal Arts (SAGLA). System winners will be notified in Spring 2012.

UW-Superior Deadline for Essay Submission: Friday, December 23, 2011

Tips for Writing a Winning Essay

Winners named in Women's and Gender Studies Essay Contest

Tue, 07 Jun 2011 17:56:33 +0000

The Women's and Gender Studies Program and Writing across the Curriculum Program announce these results of the 2010-11 Women's and Gender Studies Essay Contest:

Scholarly Category:

1^st place: "Dragon Ladies: 'Bloody Mary ' and Her Demonized Sisters" by Cassy Foltz
2^nd place: "Gendered Perspectives on Climate Change" by Heather Bradford

Expressive/Creative Category:

1st place: "Wings-Day" by Kristen McLeod
2^nd place: "Time Machine" by Colleen Effinger

Congratulations to these students on their fine essays! A reception honoring them will be held in early fall. Watch for details.

Celebrate National Poetry Month (April) at UW-Superior!

Mon, 11 Apr 2011 14:08:58 +0000

--Chaucer called April a month of sweet showers.

--T. S. Eliot called April "the cruellest month."

With these two great poets having both cited the month so memorably, albeit in contradictory terms, no wonder April has been designated as National Poetry Month!

UW-Superior will celebrate National Poetry Month this year with two events sponsored by the UW-Superior Writing across the Curriculum Program:

A Poetry Reading by Joel Friederich, poet and UW-Barron County professor, on Thursday, April 14, at 6:30 pm, in Yellowjacket Union 204 Joel is the author of Blue to Fill the Empty Heaven (2009), a poetry collection that was awarded the Silverfish Review Press' Gerald Cable Award. He is also the author of two other collections: Without Us, which won honorable mention in Finishing Line Press' 2005 chapbook competition, and The Body We Gather, which won first place in Kulupi Press' "A Sense of Place" chapbook competition. His poem "Tether" won the 2007 statewide Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, Arts, and Letters poetry prize. His poems have been published in numerous national literary journals such as Witness, Prairie Schooner, Sou'wester, The Paris Review, Beloit Poetry Journal, River Styx, and others.
A Book Launch for The Willow Tree and Other Inclinations, a poetry collection by George Gott, UW-Superior Professor Emeritus, on Friday, April 29, at 7 pm, in the Jim Dan Hill Library George Gott taught English for 43 years, 36 1/2 of them at UW-Superior. He retired from the university in 1997. George has published over 800 poems in magazines worldwide. (Event co-sponsored by Savage Press and the UW-Superior Writing, Reading, and Library Science Department)

All faculty, staff, students, and community members are invited to these events!

Book launch for professor emeritus

Wed, 06 Apr 2011 05:00:00 +0000

Savage Press has just published The Willow Tree and Other Inclinations, a book of poems by George Gott, professor emeritus. To celebrate the publication, a book launch will be held on Friday, April 29, at 7 p.m., in the fireside area of the Jim Dan Hill Library.

The event is co-sponsored by Savage Press, the UW-Superior Writing across the Curriculum Program, and the UW-Superior Department of Writing, Reading, and Library Science.

The author of over 800 poems published in magazines worldwide, George Gott taught for 43 years, 36 1/2 of them at UW-Superior. He retired in 1997.

Slam Poetry in the YU

Tue, 05 Apr 2011 05:00:00 +0000

Poetry Reading by Joel Friederich

Mon, 04 Apr 2011 05:00:00 +0000

Creating a Culture of Writing

Fri, 25 Mar 2011 05:00:00 +0000

Come see "Writing across the Curriculum in Action!"

Wed, 16 Mar 2011 05:00:00 +0000

The final Writing across the Curriculum Brown Bag of Spring 2011 will be an especially exciting one. Entitled "Writing across the Curriculum in Action," it is a follow-up session to one held during Fall 2010 Enhancement Day entitled "Writing across the Curriculum: The Myths, the Realities," which featured faculty from History, Music, and Science describing their incorporation of student writing into their courses.

This time around, we'll have a panel of UW-Superior faculty from disciplines other than those featured last time who teach courses in which student writing plays a significant role. We'll hear from

Shevaun Stocker, Assistant Professor of Psychology

Bruce Kibler, Assistant Professor of Management

and a third panelist yet to be named

Please join us on Wed., Apr. 6, at noon, in YU 203, for some great discussion of ways student writing can happen in courses across the disciplines.