[sent on behalf of Janice Freeman, Winnipeg, whose messages keep bouncing -- it
must be the cold weather out there]
Margaret is right-- I have begun this project and have a draft of the Canadian
Writing Programs web site up. I didn't want to announce it because it was put
together by students (based on work that we've done tracking down centres over
the past few years), and I still haven't had a chance to check it thoroughly.
(A preliminary look showed me that some of the links are confused.)
I do plan to polish it up and write some sort of a rationale for it some day
soon. My (as yet to be written) Inkshed proposal is going to be centred on the
Centres page.
If you don't mind looking at a work in progress, here it is:
http://www.uwinnipeg.ca/~caw/Writing%20Centres/Canadian%20Writng%20Centres.html
Please let me know if I missed out anybody or if your links have changed. As I
said, I haven't had a chance to check my students' work, so there's bound to be
more errors than the few I've already noticed (and haven't changed...) I'll
make this my Reading Week project...
Janice
Margaret Procter wrote:
> Hi, Janice and all --
>
> This is impressive and will be very useful! Here are a couple more links for the
> network of writing centres at the University of Toronto (besides the general
> site and the one for U of T Engineering, already listed under Ontario):
>
> -- U of T at Scarborough Writing Centre,
> http://library.scar.utoronto.ca/TLS/TWC/index.htm (watch for a forthcoming
> faculty handbook on writing in the disciplines)
>
> -- U of T Health Sciences Writing Centre, http://www.utoronto.ca/hswriting/
> (excellent handouts on specific genres of writing)
>
> -- U of T School of Graduate Studies, Office of English Language and Writing
> Support, http://www.sgs.utoronto.ca/english/index.htm (an amazing array of
> courses, workshops, and consultations for graduate students -- note especially
> the inventive topics for courses and workshops, and the range of ways for
> handling the needs of non-native speakers)
>
> Regards,
>
> Margaret.
>
> Janice Freeman wrote:
> >
> > Margaret is right-- I have begun this project and have a draft of the Canadian
> > Writing Programs web site up. I didn't want to announce it because it was put
> > together by students (based on work that we've done tracking down centres over
> > the past few years), and I still haven't had a chance to check it thoroughly.
> > (A preliminary look showed me that some of the links are confused.)
> >
> > I do plan to polish it up and write some sort of a rationale for it some day
> > soon. My (as yet to be written) Inkshed proposal is going to be centred on the
> > Centres page.
> >
> > If you don't mind looking at a work in progress, here it is:
> > http://www.uwinnipeg.ca/~caw/Writing%20Centres/Canadian%20Writng%20Centres.html
> >
> > Please let me know if I missed out anybody or if your links have changed. As I
> > said, I haven't had a chance to check my students' work, so there's bound to be
> > more errors than the few I've already noticed (and haven't changed...) I'll
> > make this my Reading Week project...
> >
> > Janice
> >
> > Margaret Procter wrote:
> >
> > > Dear Inkshedders:
> > >
> > > I also second the term "writing conventions" to suggest the artificial (but
> > > learnable) elements that people usually call "grammar." Use of that term
> > > might at least lead to questions, and even give us chances to mention
> > > Williams, Hartwell, etc. Alas, the original glamour has been lost in
> > > popular usage.
> > >
> > > And I like the idea of an inventory of current writing programs across
> > > Canada. As Theresa mentions, I did a study of the use of testing in Ontario
> > > universities in 1995 that turned into an account of the types of
> > > instruction that universities had developed by then (mostly instead of
> > > tests). It's still on the Web at
> > > http://www.utoronto.ca/writing/reportw.html. And Henry Hubert did a survey
> > > of writing centres across Canada that was published in Inkshed a few years
> > > ago -- about 1998?? Is this on the web anywhere? (Henry?) Janice Freeman
> > > was thinking of doing some information-gathering this year about writing
> > > centres: is that underway? Can we help? And then there's Tania Smith, who
> > > knows about us inside and out....
> > >
> > > It would be useful for our own self-education as well as for internal
> > > politics to see the range of designs that have taken shape in recent years.
> > > Some will be the Best Practices our committees periodically want to hear
> > > about, others will be interesting or serve as warnings, maybe. I know some
> > > fine examples of the intertwining of writing centres, disciplinary courses
> > > and writing courses, and look forward to hearing of more shapes and models.
> > > Has WAC won? Where is ESL, anyway? Is it and should it be separate from
> > > other elements in writing programs? Rob Irish's work at U of T Engineering
> > > really is quite amazing, and I'd like to know more about Amanda's at
> > > Winnipeg as well as to catch up with SFU and UBC and Alberta and UNB and
> > > Memorial.
> > >
> > > Margaret
> > >
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