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Wednesday, September 12, 2018 2:00 pm - 4:30 pm EDT (GMT -04:00) Wednesday, September 19, 2018 2:00 pm - 4:30 pm EDT (GMT -04:00) Wednesday, September 26, 2018 2:00 pm - 4:30 pm EDT (GMT -04:00) Wednesday, October 3, 2018 2:00 pm - 4:30 pm EDT (GMT -04:00) Wednesday, October 10, 2018 2:00 pm - 4:30 pm EDT (GMT -04:00) Wednesday, October 17, 2018 2:00 pm - 4:30 pm EDT (GMT -04:00) Wednesday, October 24, 2018 2:00 pm - 4:30 pm EDT (GMT -04:00) Wednesday, October 31, 2018 2:00 pm - 4:30 pm EDT (GMT -04:00) Wednesday, November 7, 2018 2:00 pm - 4:30 pm EST (GMT -05:00) Wednesday, November 14, 2018 2:00 pm - 4:30 pm EST (GMT -05:00) Wednesday, November 21, 2018 2:00 pm - 4:30 pm EST (GMT -05:00) Wednesday, November 28, 2018 2:00 pm - 4:30 pm EST (GMT -05:00) Wednesday, December 5, 2018 2:00 pm - 4:30 pm EST (GMT -05:00) Wednesday, December 12, 2018 2:00 pm - 4:30 pm EST (GMT -05:00) Wednesday, December 19, 2018 2:00 pm - 4:30 pm EST (GMT -05:00)

Faculty Writing Café

Every Wednesday afternoon, we offer a dedicated writing space (with coffee, tea, and treats!) for faculty to write together. After the writing session you are welcome to stay to discuss writing goals, challenges and strategies with your colleagues.

Faculty Writing Café:

Book launch poster featuring Dr. Frankie Condon and Dr. Vershawn Young
Thursday, March 2, 2017 4:30 pm - 4:30 pm EST (GMT -05:00)

Book launch and reception for Performing Antiracist Pedagogy in Rhetoric, Writing, and Communication

The Writing Centre and the Book Store invite you to attend a book launch and reception for Performing Antiracist Pedagogy in Rhetoric, Writing, and Communication, edited by Dr. Frankie Condon (English Language and Literature) and Dr. Vershawn Young (Drama and Speech Communication).

Please join us for a discussion and refreshments.

Thursday, December 3, 2015

Free Writing

In the last few weeks I’ve been listening to the Mortified podcast, which features adults reading their adolescent diaries in front of a live audience, with no exaggeration, no embellishment, “just god-given awkwardness”. Every episode is guaranteed to produce cringing smiles.

I kept a diary of my own for six years, running from grade nine through my first year of university.

Tuesday, November 17, 2015

What is it like to be a Technical Writer?

I did a co-op term as a technical writer at a high tech company here in Waterloo.

The job of a technical writer varies from company to company, but essentially it involves writing text that allows customers to understand how to use technology. In my case I was documenting software changes, and the process went something like this:

Friday, October 30, 2015

New! Improved?

During my undergraduate years at the University of Toronto, I took a class on a Roman poet named Catullus. For a long semester I laboured over his poetry, trying to wrestle his sophisticated Latin phrases into easy English.  From all the hundreds of lines of his poetry that I worked on, one word stands out in my memory: palmulas.