Library @ Writing Center and Writing Center @ Johnson Center

We are pleased that Fenwick library and the Johnson Center library have extended their research support hours at the writing center this semester. Library staff is available Monday-Thursday from 12:30-2:30 to help students with any research-related questions. Library staff have also led two workshops this semester at the writing center on tips and advice for locating and evaluated sources.

A writing center tutor is also available at the Johnson Center library on Thursdays from 2:30-4:30 to assist students with writing-related questions.

Writing Center Workshops Draw a Crowd

The Writing Center is pleased to announce that its newly expanded series of workshops has proven to be a big success. The new “Grammar Bootcamp: Building Complex Sentences with Commas” workshop drew a big crowd of university staff and students from the undergraduate to the PhD level. “Writing Personal Statement for Graduate School and Scholarship Applications” led by the writing center and office of post-graduate fellowships and scholarship’s personal statement specialist, was once again our most popular workshop with 45 participants. The workshops are available online at: http://writingcenter.gmu.edu/resources/workshops.html

Writing Fellow Cait McPherson presents her poster at the April CHSS Undergraduate Research Symposium.

Congratulations to Our Spring 2009 Peer Tutors

CHSS 390:

• Mike Dupuy, Engineering
• Simone Erchov, Psychology
• Caroline Gergel, Biology
• Katie Kane, English

MCLC 295:

• Annie Stickney, Global Affairs
• Nya Jackson, Public Administration

Spanish Writing Tutors:

• Liana Montecinos
• Gordon Ramsay

...with oversight by Prof. Rei Berroa, Spanish.

Congratulations to
Our Writing Fellows

• Romina Boccia (Economics, with Prof. Victoria Rader in Sociology 120)
• Cait McPherson (Anthropology, with Prof. David Haines in Anthropology 330)
• Louise Martin, (Administration of Justice, with Prof. Thomas McDow in History 300)
• Scott Silvestain, (Accounting, with Prof. Anne Magro in Accounting 462)

This News from the Center is reported by Anna Habib, Assistant Director of the Writing Center.