writing

Support of Undergraduate Research & Creative Endeavors (SOURCE) will offer seminars to help students prepare for Intersections, Research ShowCASE and the Celebration of Student Writing and Research. A seminar titled “How to Make a Poster” will be held: Wednesday, April 5, at 3:20 p.m. in…

Steven Pinker’s provocative article “Why Academics Stink at Writing,” that recently appeared in the Chronicle of Higher Education, attempts to identify the reasons why academic writing can be difficult to read. He outlines a variety of ways in which academic writers, in service of other goals, fail…

Undergraduate students are invited to apply for the inaugural Arnaud Gelb Journalism Awards and Internship, featuring grants up to $2,000 in prize money and internship funding. The fund will also provide grants to defray costs for students working in unpaid journalism internships. Born and raised…

SAGES and the Writing Program are accepting nominations for two awards for excellent writing instruction. These awards honor faculty who have demonstrated outstanding commitment to and success in teaching academic writing to Case Western Reserve University students. Nominations will be accepted…

This year, the Martin Luther King Jr. Reflection Competition seeks poetry, short stories, art, photography and video responses as well as essays. The contest is open to staff, students and faculty/administrators from Case Western Reserve University and Cuyahoga Community College. First and second…

At the end of each academic year, members of the Case Western Reserve University community are recognized with Writing Program Awards. The Department of English, SAGES and the Writing Program recently recognized this year’s winners of teaching awards and student writing prizes. Faculty Awards The…

Are you working on a master's or doctoral thesis or dissertation? Having trouble planning your time or getting anything written? The free Summer Dissertation Boot Camp program will offer a solution to assist master of arts/master of science students and doctoral candidates from any discipline make…

The final Writing Resource Center General Campus Workshop Series of the semester will be held Friday, April 8, from 12:35 to 1:35 p.m. in Bellflower Hall, Room 102. English lecturers Matthew Burkhart and Joseph Cheatle will lead the workshop on “Using Evidence Effectively” to help students…

The 2016 Edward S. and Melinda Melton Sadar Lecture in Writing in the Disciplines will be held Friday, April 15, at 3 p.m. in Bellflower Hall, Room 102. Greg Barnhisel, professor and chair of the Department of English at Duquesne University, will present “Norman Holmes Pearson: Rewriting America…

The Office of Faculty Development and the Latina/o Alliance of Northeast Ohio (LANO) invites Latina/o faculty, and faculty whose scholarship or research engages Latina/o populations or communities (within or outside the U.S.), to participate in a one-day writing retreat Friday, March 18, from 9…