Writing Center Stats and Student Feedback

Submitted by Laura May on Thu, 2008-06-12 16:49.

Greetings, Writing Assistants!

Here, for your perusal, is the year-end report showing our stats for this academic year: number of students, contacts (30-minute segments), and OWLs per week for each quarter. (I've attached OpenOffice and Excel versions.)

Here is the summary version:
Fall 2007: Total sessions 1512, total contacts 2034.5, total OWLs 203
Winter 2008: Total sessions 1546, total contacts 2159.67, total OWLs 199
Spring 2008: Total sessions 1288, total contacts 1767.13, total OWLs 175

O Unique English Language!

Submitted by JuliaVinifera on Mon, 2008-06-02 19:37.

So, while looking for poetry titles, I discoved the following:

"Infidel" is a person who has no religious faith or is an unbeliever of a particular religion.

"Infidelity" is better known as adultery.

Annotatively, the common root makes sense. Connotatively, they're completely separate ideas.

Twisty, neh?

"It's been good. Really good."

Submitted by Jill Macdonald on Tue, 2008-05-27 11:28.

Hello friends.

The time has come for me to.....have actual appointments! Well, technically that's not true. I'm still supposed to be team-tutoring, but thanks to this hectic time of term, I've flown solo a few times in the past 2 weeks.

Handicapped parking

Submitted by Robert Sanchez on Thu, 2008-05-15 12:31.

Locking my bike to the pole of the “handicapped parking” sign, the irony halts me.

of pretty girls and being judged

Submitted by Anthony Rimel on Fri, 2008-05-09 00:37.

So its been a while since I’ve made a blog post, but Marjorie’s guilt trip has taken effect on me and I decided to share one of my recent experiences with writing that might serve some semi-educational purpose for the assistants that are posting on portal a lot for training, as well as potentially amuse anyone else who reads it.

Stating the Obvious.

Submitted by Jill Macdonald on Thu, 2008-05-08 12:05.

By this point in my training, I can see why people freak out about it so much. That is to say, why people tend to procrastinate paper-writing and rarely see academic writing as an outlet for their musings and passions, but often see them as...impending doom.

Not to exclude myself from the freaked-out procrastination. Oh gosh, no. But after having read The Bedford guide and brooding semi-extensively over fish hatcheries, et cetera, I see the technicalities of writing far more than I did a few months ago.

Woot for the Hoot

Submitted by JuliaVinifera on Tue, 2008-04-29 16:29.

I have been looking at my first OWL today, and I really had no idea where to start.

Writers block. Nuts.

The writer definitely has excellent language, some sharp ideas, and a fun style, but there's not a lot of connection to the source material. Dennis was definitely right about the lack of face-to-face contact that means so much in sessions. I never realized how much it matters to me to have somebody to listen to and talk with! Thank mercy Marjorie had some good suggestions of how to get in the right mind-set to do a response.

Conference II

Submitted by tawnya redding on Sat, 2008-04-26 14:26.

Hi Everyone!!!

(I will not be outdone by Katie!)

conference!

Submitted by Katie on Sat, 2008-04-26 14:07.

Hello all!

Home on the Range

Submitted by JuliaVinifera on Fri, 2008-04-18 17:06.

Hey all you WAs, looking for a home during the summer or for next fall! We've got a few open rooms in the upcoming months where I'm living, and we're looking for lovely people to become housemates. We're right off Kings and Van Buren, and it's a quiet house where a baker, two engineers, and a wine-geek reside. If you're looking for a place to stay in the upcoming terms, give me a yell, cool?

How is everybody doing this term?

-~*)