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Write On
Weekly writing information and resources from the Evergreen Writing Center
Vol. 1, Issue 10 [View Other Issues]
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This week’s theme: Summer Writing
Quotation of the Week
"Summer's lease hath all too short a date."
-- William Shakespeare (1564-1616)
Editor's Note
Now that spring quarter is rolling to a close and summer is nipping at our heels, we here at Write On would like to take this opportunity to say thanks for subscribing. We hope you enjoyed this newsletter as much as we enjoyed making it. And we hope you gained some useful knowledge about writing.
We’d also like to ask for your feedback. Write On will be back next fall quarter, and over the summer we’ll be working on making it even better. If you have an extra minute, please drop us an email and let us know which aspects of Write On you enjoyed, as well as which aspects we might be able to improve. And if you have ideas about what you’d like to see added to Write On, please email us those ideas also.
Have a great summer!
Writing Center Open During Summer
Hours
Just in case you didn’t think that the Writing Center was cool enough, here’s the definitive stroke that will change your mind: we are open for the summer!
Come and get writing assistance starting June 23rd:
Monday-Thursday 10:00 AM - 6:00 PM
Friday 11:00 AM - 3:00 PM
We will keep these hours throughout the entire summer session, which lasts until September 5, 2003.
Weekly Appointments
One of the best ways to improve your writing over the summer is to schedule a weekly appointment with one of our writing tutors. You and your tutor can set specific goals based on areas you would like to improve, and then work toward those goals over the course of the quarter. By the end of the summer, you will be a better writer.
You can find us in Library 3407, or call 867- 6420 to make an appointment with a tutor.
Summer Writing Programs
Another great way to improve your writing over the summer is to enroll in one of Evergreen's many summer writing programs. There's quite a range of topics this year, as you'll see in the list we've compiled below.
For more information about any and all of these programs, visit Evergreen’s online summer catalog at www.evergreen.edu/summer/home.htm.
1st Session
Writing About Irish Literature
4 credits, first session
Don Foran
Students will read, seminar and write about works by Irish writers: William Butler Yeats, James Joyce, Sean O’Casey, Evan Boland, Oscar Wilde, Seamus Heaney and Cathal O’Searcaigh.
Writing, Creativity, Performance
4 credits, first session
Ratna Roy
Writers, musicians, dancers and actors are encouraged to come together to write poetry, lyrics and short stories, and to perform them on campus or in Olympia during the latter part of week two.
Words to Flesh, Poetry from Yoga
2 to 10 credits, first session
Sarah Williams and Timothy Kelly
"Both yoga and poetry are ways of paying the kind of attention that changes you." Combining poetry and yoga with experiential anatomy, we will develop the tools of self-inquiry necessary for this kind of attending.
Word Magic: Poets and Storytellers
4 to 8 credits, first session
Rebecca Chamberlain
What makes a poem, story or song memorable? How do poets, songwriters and storytellers use words to encode memory and meaning?
Grantwriting
4 credits, first session
Larry Geri
In this course we will work through the process of researching, developing and writing a grant proposal. Students will take their basic ideas for an actual grant and work with the faculty and other students to complete the grant proposal.
Narrative Design: Shaping Memories Into Stories
6 or 8 credits, first session, Tacoma campus
Eddy Brown
This class is intended to give students guidance, experience and proficiency in designing, analyzing and writing the narrative autobiographical story.
Writer’s Feast
A working retreat and commitment to yourself near Mt. Rainier at the
Pack Forest.
1st session, 8 credits
Faculty: Nancy A. Parkes, Evan Shopper, Brian McMorrow
Guest artist/writer: Nicole Julien
This is a gift for the writer in you, an intensive program and retreat for writing students at any level. We welcome all genres of creative writing, including memoir, fiction, nonfiction and poetry. At the comfortable and nature-abundant Pack Forest, you will participate in program-wide gatherings, as well as day and evening workshops by the faculty and Nicole Julien, our guest writer/artist, designed to develop writing skills and awaken creative inspiration.
First meeting Wed., July 2, 6-9:30pm, LAB I 1047. July 7 - 11 in residence at Pack Forest, Eatonville, Wash.
2nd Session
A Writer’s Eye, A Writer’s Place
An Evening/Weekend Writer’s Workshop
8 credits, second session
Nancy A. Parkes
This is an intensive workshop for those who would like to write, as well as those who have already discovered the artist or writer within.
Research-based Writing
4 credits, second session
Char Simons
This course is designed for students to develop sound research and writing practices for crafting academic papers.
Writing About Art
4 credits, second session
Steven Hendricks
Students will study and write argumentative and explorative essays about art and its context.
Creative Expression Through Poetry and Drawing
4 credits, second session
Joe Batt
This course focuses on the relationship between writing poetry and drawing, and provides students with an opportunity to experiment in these two areas simultaneously, using variations of each.
For more information about any and all of these programs, visit Evergreen’s online summer catalog at www.evergreen.edu/summer/home.htm.
Summer Writing Contracts
It may be a little late in the game to find a sponsor for a summer writing contract, but, hey, you never know. You can start by checking out the online faculty directory at www.evergreen.edu/faculty/home.htm and browsing through faculty profiles.
Unfortunately, our director, Sandy Yannone will not be able to sponsor contracts during summer.
Stump the Tutors
Each week in this section we'll answer questions on various writing-related issues submitted by our readers. This week's question:
Q: I'm writing a paper in which I need to cite a book I'm reading. The book is a collecction of writings and critiques. It has an editor's name on the cover, but I want to quote one of the critiques (each critique is by a different author), and I have to use APA style.
A: We're glad you asked! The purpose of citing within the text is to guide the reader to the bibliography, and the purpose of a bibliography is to guide the reader to the writer’s source. This is why we use the editor’s name when citing an anthology; that’s how the book will be filed when someone goes to look for it. It gets tricky, though, when we try to cite information that is not within the chapters of an anthology, but in an interpolated critique.
Take for example the book The Story and the Writer edited by Ann Charters. This book is an anthology of short stories and related commentaries about many of the stories. The commentaries are separate from the stories, but for our purposes, they function as little chapters by themselves.
Our first suggestion would be to examine your table of contents to see what the critiques are called. We then suggest that you treat the critique as you would an actual chapter or story within the anthology.
For example, if I were to cite the commentary about the Borges story "The Garden of Forking Paths" (located in The Story and the Writer anthology), my bibliography would show:
Brooks, Peter. (1995). A narratological analysis of Borges’s The garden of forking paths. In Ann Charters (Ed.), The story and the writer (pp.1393-1395). Boston: Bedford Books of St. Martin’s Press.
The in-text citation for this would appear as:
(Brooks, 1995)
The anthology as a whole would be listed as:
Charters, Ann. (Ed.). (1995). The story and the writer. Boston: Bedford Books of St. Martin’s Press.
If the critique has no proper title or is called simply "critique" or "introduction", you may want to call it simply "Introduction to <story or chapter name> and treat it the same way outlined above.
Stop by the Writing Center in Library 3407 and drop your question in our "Stump the Tutors" classic 1950s ceramic stump!