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The Writing Workshop consists of about 50 students who are paid to tutor other students in writing and public speaking. Tutors are selected every spring for the following school year. Supervised by Dean Grudin and led this year by Evan Miller and Godfrey Bakuli, the workshop offers services in the following areas:
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{{Group|
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| name = Writing Workshop
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| type = Academic support service
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| selective = highly selective
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| membership = 60
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| meeting-place = Wege Auditorium
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| office = top floor of [[Sawyer]],<br />back of [[Schow]]
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| contact-name  =Andrés López
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| contact-unix  =09arl@williams.edu
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| listserver-url = http://listserv.williams.edu/
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| website = http://www.williams.edu/dean/wws
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| established = 1972
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The Writing Workshop consists of about 60 students who are paid to privately tutor other students in writing and public speaking. After being nominated by a faculty member, candidates are interviewed by the Workshop's supervisor(s), and some are selected to become tutors the following school year. With minor oversight from the Academic Resource Center, the Workshop is led this year by Andrés López, Helen Hood, and Fida-E Tashfia.  It offers students assistance in the following areas:
  
 
== Drop-in Shifts ==
 
== Drop-in Shifts ==
  
The Workshop is open from 8 p.m. to midnight, Sunday through Thursday in the back of [[Schow Science Library]] and on the top floor of [[Sawyer Library]]. You can sign up for a half-hour slot or just drop by and hope a tutor is available. Here is this year's schedule:
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The Workshop is open from 7:45 p.m. to 12:15 a.m., Sunday through Thursday in the back of [[Schow Science Library]] and on the top floor of [[Sawyer Library]]. You can sign up for a half-hour slot or just drop by and hope a tutor is available. This year's tutor schedule will be posted at the beginning of the fall semester.
 
 
 
 
Sunday Sawyer 8-10: Deborah King, Laura Wagner
 
 
 
Sunday Sawyer 10-12: Emily Bruce, Alyssa Mack, Philip Carter
 
 
 
Sunday Schow 8-10: Lauren McLaughlin, Chris Paci
 
 
 
Sunday Schow 10-12: Julia Sendor, Matthew Steding
 
 
 
 
 
Monday Sawyer 8-10: Daniel Sussman, Charlotte White
 
 
 
Monday Sawyer 10-12: Kim Fassler, Sara Carrian, Jasjit Singh
 
 
 
Monday Schow 8-10: Alissa Caron, Gillian Sowden, Robert Bland
 
 
 
Monday Schow 10-12: Elizabeth Pierce, Alexandra Letvin
 
 
 
 
 
Tuesday Sawyer 8-10: Julia Chabrier, Jing Cao, Megan Brankley
 
 
 
Tuesday Sawyer 10-12: Caroline Anderson, Sesh Sundararaman
 
 
 
Tuesday Schow 8-10: Daniel Jamorabo, Janaki O'Brien, Sarah Adkins
 
 
 
Tuesday Schow 10-12: Kiana Green, Amanda Whiting
 
 
 
 
 
Wednesday Sawyer 8-10: Dianne Pfundstein, Noah Susskind, Nate Klein
 
 
 
Wednesday Sawyer 10-12: Roman Herman, Elizabeth Greenberger
 
 
 
Wednesday Schow 8-10: Katie Mygatt, Jerry He, Dan Wong
 
 
 
Wednesday Schow 10-12: Natalie Vokes, Paul Reyns
 
 
 
 
 
Thursday Sawyer 8-10: Dave Weimar, Faaiza Lalji
 
 
 
Thursday Sawyer 10-12: Shelby Kimmel, Caroline Toy
 
 
 
Thursday Schow 8-10: Liz Woodwick, Rachel Allen, Andrew Wang
 
 
 
Thursday Schow 10-12: Lee Schaefer, Jessica Lovaas
 
 
 
  
 
Other services of the workshop require special arrangements. (Sorry, no drop-ins.) They are:
 
Other services of the workshop require special arrangements. (Sorry, no drop-ins.) They are:
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The speech workshop is for anyone who would like help with a presentation or public speech. Contact: Amanda Whiting.
 
The speech workshop is for anyone who would like help with a presentation or public speech. Contact: Amanda Whiting.
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== Senior moments ==
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It is a Workshop tradition that a few meetings each year will be run by a senior member of the Workshop, who will use the period to share with the group an issue of tangential relation to peer editing.
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One fondly remembered address, [http://wso.williams.edu/~emiller/Jerk.pdf How Not To Be a Jerk (pdf)], was given in 2004 by [[Evan Miller]] '06.

Latest revision as of 03:54, June 1, 2008

Writing Workshop
Type of groupAcademic support service
Selectivehighly selective
Membership60
Meeting placeWege Auditorium
Officetop floor of Sawyer,
back of Schow
Established1972
Websitehttp://www.williams.edu/dean/wws

The Writing Workshop consists of about 60 students who are paid to privately tutor other students in writing and public speaking. After being nominated by a faculty member, candidates are interviewed by the Workshop's supervisor(s), and some are selected to become tutors the following school year. With minor oversight from the Academic Resource Center, the Workshop is led this year by Andrés López, Helen Hood, and Fida-E Tashfia. It offers students assistance in the following areas:

Drop-in Shifts

The Workshop is open from 7:45 p.m. to 12:15 a.m., Sunday through Thursday in the back of Schow Science Library and on the top floor of Sawyer Library. You can sign up for a half-hour slot or just drop by and hope a tutor is available. This year's tutor schedule will be posted at the beginning of the fall semester.

Other services of the workshop require special arrangements. (Sorry, no drop-ins.) They are:

English as a Second Language (or third, or...)

The Workshop also has tutors trained to help foreign students with their English prose. Contact Kim Fassler or Alexandra Letvin.

Murphy Wing

Students who would like to work with one tutor on a regular basis for a semester should contact Dianne Pfundstein. (Take note that Dianne is just the coordinator, and will not necessarily be your permanent tutor.)

Speech Workshop

The speech workshop is for anyone who would like help with a presentation or public speech. Contact: Amanda Whiting.

Senior moments

It is a Workshop tradition that a few meetings each year will be run by a senior member of the Workshop, who will use the period to share with the group an issue of tangential relation to peer editing.

One fondly remembered address, How Not To Be a Jerk (pdf), was given in 2004 by Evan Miller '06.